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A SPRUCED up railway
passenger coach’ from the
1930s will be the highlight
of Terrace’s planned linear
park.

The coach will likely be
located across from the am-
bulance station. It will be
the key feature of a park
which wilk wind alongside
the railway to Kalum Lake
Drive.

The coach belongs to he
Skeena Valley Medel Rail-
road club, Its eight members
chipped in and bought the
coach for $1 from the Prince
George railway museum.

“Tt looks rough but there’s
a lot of work already done
on the inside,”’ said club
‘member John Rinaldi,

The coach started out life
working for the Canadian
National Railway. Most
recently the passenger coach
had been converied to a
dorm and diner car for a BC
Rail work gang, Then two
years ago it was decommis-
sioned.

Eight feet wide and 80
feet long, there’s a lot of,
room inside, It’s currently
located on the Valley
Oxygen property, near the
overpass.

The coach has low watt
lights, run off a solar panet
and a propane heater, That’s
so the railway club can use
the coach as ils meeting
place. :

Although the club was
formerly established in
1987, it's mever had a
permanent home, And for
the last two years members
have had no where to set up
their model railroads.

That’s one reason why.
they hope to get this car es-
tablished in the proposed
park.

All that needs to be done
on the inside is to lay a
linoteum floor, Then mem-
bess will set up a 1/87 scale
of the railway lines from
Terrace to Prince Rupert
and Kitimat.

ger coach sets off park

MODEL RAILWAY CLUB members Ken Haun and John Rinaldi hope to get this
1930s passenger coach moved this summer to the start of the linear park, along-
side Hwy 16 west. They and the six other members plan to sandblast and paint

the car, then set up their model railway inside.

Ken Gibson

Some of the old stations:

which used to be staffed
along those lines will also
be set up along the model
tracks,

Rinaldi actually lived in
those stations growing up as
a boy. His father, Richard,
worked for the CN for 35
years.

Old station names such as
Kwinitsa, Telegraph Point
and Shames evoke members
of home for John.

“Every ten miles had a
station with a foreman and a
section man,’’ said John. It
wasn’t an easy life —- the
station had no power or in-
door plumbing, unless you
were lucky enough to live
by a water tower,

“The trains would put me
to sleep at night,”’ remem-

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bers John.

But in 1963 the stations
were decommissioned when
diesel cars became popular.

Railway club members
hope to get the 80 tonne
coach moved = to _ its
permanent home this sum-
mer, so they can finally set
up their model set,

And John and fellow
member Ken Haun are also
committed to sandblasting
and painting at least half the
car —-- the side that faces the
highway,

They plan to paint it CN
colours — olive green and
black,

Eventually the club hopes
to be able to open the car as
a smal] museum to the pub-
lic,

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