WHAT the H*LL Happened? Train Wreck | VANCITY ADVENTURE

Welcome to Vancity Whistler Train Wreck Adventure!

It’s one of Whistler’s most unique spots—a handful of mangled railway boxcars scattered like ants among towering cedar and fir trees that line the mighty cold Cheakamus River.

What about those boxcars? How did they end up there with little to no damage to any of the surrounding trees? According to research from the Whistler Museum, the train derailed in 1956 when a freighter heading south from Lillooet was going a little to fast.

“The speed limit was only 15 mph (24 km/h),” writes the Museum’s Sarah Drewery in an old Whistler Question article on the matter. “The fourth engine turned a rail, causing the train wreck. They checked the tape in the engine, which told how fast they were going… 35 mph (56 km).”

The subsequent crash wedged three cars tightly into a narrow canyon-like section known as a rock cut and a local logging company owned by Whistler’s Valleau family was enlisted to remove the cars with their heavy-duty D8 Cats (logging machines). Once pried loose the damaged cars were dragged up the tracks and rolled over into the forest where they remain today. The tracks were repaired, the train kept a’chugging and now 60 years later the trees have grown up pretty nicely, the local artists keep things colourful, and the Whistler Train Wreck is a magical kind of spot you’re unlikely to find anywhere else.

We cool down in the mighty cold Cheakamus River.

Whistler Quarry Rd, Whistler, BC V0N 1B1

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I am Daryl, a travel & adventure filmmaker. I’m one-third of the Treo behind Vancity Adventure, a YouTube channel, exploring the world with my son Cayden and Tosha the Pug (sometimes my wife).

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