The Okanagan Express ran annually in the mid to late 1980s from Vancouver to the Okanagan Valley Wine Region in British Columbia. A Roger Puta Photograph

The Okanagan Express ran annually in the mid to late 1980s from Vancouver to the Okanagan Valley Wine Region in British Columbia. A Roger Puta Photograph After I posted this I received t... (more)

CN only painted one locomotive to promote the 1986 Worlds Fair in Vancouver. Here it is pulling the westbound "Okanagan Express" passenger special across the Thompson River at Lytton, British Co... (more)

For a couple of years in the early 1980's it was possible to experience a traditional passenger train on the now-abandonned Kettle Valley route.