News

Conversations with trail users on the 15th anniversary of the last passenger train.

Charlie Chaplin is hired to maintain the E&N corridor.

Benno and Des discuss options to replace the bridge over the tracks to Savory School.

March 19, 2011 is the day the trains stopped. The tracks were no longer safe, and they have continued to deteriorate.

Benno and Des discuss remediation of the corridor, how much might be needed, what it might cost, and what is “catastophism”.

The Reconciliation Corridor Initiative of the CRD was announced in December of 2025. Benno and Des discuss the implications for trails, trains and traffic.

Benno & Des use existing examples and studies to show that having trails beside rails is not a feasible alternative to rails-TO-trails

Rail trails can provide a huge opportunity for tourism benefits to Vancouver Island.

A video explaining the basics of railway alignment, and why the design of the old logging and mining E&N railway is obsolete for modern trains.

A new documentary from PBS on the 60 year struggle to create trails from abandoned railway rights-of-way in the USA