Okanagan Valley Railway
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| Okanagan Valley Railway | |
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 Okanagan Valley Railway GP10 rolls past grade grossing near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan | |
| Locale | Okanagan Valley |
| Dates of operation | 1998–2009 |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) (standard gauge) |
| Headquarters | Vernon, British Columbia |
Okanagan Valley Railway (reporting mark OKAN) was the railway division of Omnitrax, a transportation services company. Tracks ran 94 miles (151 km) from Vernon to Sicamous and served five towns en route. Among the businesses served were forestry, farming, chemicals and cement. Okanagan Valley Railway's biggest customer was OI Canada, Western Canada's only producer of glass beverage containers.
Because the OI glass plant closed in Spring 2009, OKAN lost most of its business and ultimately shut down on September 21, 2009.[1]
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