Okanagan Valley Railway
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Okanagan Valley Railway | |
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Reporting marks | OVR |
Locale | Okanagan Valley |
Dates of operation | 1998–present |
Track gauge | 4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm) (standard gauge) |
Headquarters | Vernon, British Columbia |
Okanagan Valley Railway (AAR reporting marks OKAN, OVR) is the railway division of Omnitrax, a transportation services company. Tracks run 94 miles (151 km) from Vernon to Sicamous and serve five towns en-route. Among the businesses served are forestry, farming, chemicals and cement. Okanagan Valley Railway's biggest customer is OI Canada, Western Canada's only producer of glass beverage containers.
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