OmniTRAX

Okanagan Valley

All photographs: Mark Forseille unless otherwise credited.

Effective November 20, 1998 leased 94 miles of CPR Okanagan Subdivision.

Route operated:
Sicamous - Armstrong - Vernon, BC (46.3 miles)
Vernon - Lumby Jct - Kelowna, BC (33.4 miles) (via trackage rights on KPR)
Lumby Jct - Lumby, BC (14.4 miles) (via trackage rights on KPR)
(Kelowna Pacific also has trackage rights over OKAN from Armstrong to Vernon)

Note: Loss of a major customer (c.50% traffic) Owens Illinois in Lavington which closed its glass container plant
(only one in the West) October 31, 2008 resulted in closure of the line effective September 21, 2009.

All of OKAN's power in one consist led by 3550 trailing 2506 and 1006. Vernon 9/22/2007 Connor Park

1006 lettered for Central Kansas with Carlton Trail logo. Reporting marks (initials) have been painted over.
This is a potential safety hazard being correctly identified by other movements.
GP10 EMD 20765 12/55 ex OMLX, ex CTRW, ex Mid South 1006, ex ICG 8127 nee GP9 IC 9127
Vernon, BC August 11, 2004

1038 ex Carlton Trail 1038, ICG 8139 GP10 nee GP9 IC 9139 EMD 20777 1/56
Enroute from OKAN, Cicero, IL 7/19/2000 Dave Eagen

Brand new paint job! OKAN 1049 ex CTRW ex Mid South ex ICG 8196 nee GP9 IC 9196
GP10 EMD #22281 12/56 Port Coquitlam March 2, 1999

2506 lettered for Central Kansas with Hudson Bay logo and no initials. GP30 ex SP4120 EMD 27103 2/62
Vernon, BC August 11, 2004

3550 acq. 9/98 (ex CN 3550) M420 with a nice new paint job but lacking any lettering or reporting marks.
MLW M6081-21 5/74 Vernon, BC August 11, 2004