Comments on: The Royal Hudson https://evelazarus.com/the-royal-hudson-goes-south/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:33:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: John Gary McBain https://evelazarus.com/the-royal-hudson-goes-south/#comment-61129 Sat, 03 Aug 2024 16:46:03 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11985#comment-61129 My barbershop chorus sang at the North Vancouver station and then rode the Royal Hudson up to Squamish with a quartet singing on the way. Great time and I still think they should revise it as it would be a great tourist attraction.

]]> By: Brian Hubbard https://evelazarus.com/the-royal-hudson-goes-south/#comment-59120 Sun, 01 Oct 2023 03:55:29 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11985#comment-59120 In reply to Gerry N..

Ask the Brits how they do it. They even built a brand new steam loco using modern technology and got it certified. It has reached 100 mph! See https://www.a1steam.com/.

]]> By: Paul Reilly https://evelazarus.com/the-royal-hudson-goes-south/#comment-58956 Sun, 30 Jul 2023 19:49:27 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11985#comment-58956 I saw the Royal Hudson running in 2005 or 2006. It stopped by Mosquito Creek Marina. A spectacular sight, bellowing steam and then chugging off towards Vancouver.
So I am wondering about that failed boiler date of 1995.

]]> By: Ron Innes https://evelazarus.com/the-royal-hudson-goes-south/#comment-49177 Sun, 03 Apr 2022 22:59:11 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11985#comment-49177 My kids were very lucky to ride in the engine with Mr. Smith at Brunswick Beach. They are now in their forties

]]> By: Jake https://evelazarus.com/the-royal-hudson-goes-south/#comment-49089 Thu, 31 Mar 2022 02:41:54 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11985#comment-49089 I rode the Hudson a few times as a kid in the 90s. The most memorable was when it hit a car at an intersection and all of us passengers had to get out and find other ways to get home! I always wondered what happened to the poor passengers of the vehicle that we hit!

]]> By: David James Varnes https://evelazarus.com/the-royal-hudson-goes-south/#comment-48860 Tue, 22 Mar 2022 17:35:17 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11985#comment-48860 I had the privilege of taking a photography course by Fred Herzog through UBC (Fine Arts 475) on Saturdays throughout the semester in 1975. I watched him work with Kodak Ektachrome to get those memorable colourful downtown east side shots.

]]> By: Mike Schock https://evelazarus.com/the-royal-hudson-goes-south/#comment-48842 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 23:00:45 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11985#comment-48842 If Union Pacific was able to restore
Big Boy #4014 back to operating condition, then why not the Royal Hudson?

]]> By: Ken McFaul https://evelazarus.com/the-royal-hudson-goes-south/#comment-48807 Sun, 20 Mar 2022 21:15:14 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11985#comment-48807 Like local history

]]> By: Ken McFaul https://evelazarus.com/the-royal-hudson-goes-south/#comment-48806 Sun, 20 Mar 2022 21:13:13 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11985#comment-48806 Enjoyed your article. Interested in local history
Like to get your emails

]]> By: Jonathan Walford https://evelazarus.com/the-royal-hudson-goes-south/#comment-48800 Sun, 20 Mar 2022 16:38:12 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11985#comment-48800 In reply to Art.

Here Here! I went on it twice, when it was doing the North Van to Squamish runs, and it was a great experience. The cost of its upkeep is a tiny portion of what it makes from tourism.

]]> By: Dianne Hartwickpmrltd@shaw.ca https://evelazarus.com/the-royal-hudson-goes-south/#comment-48798 Sun, 20 Mar 2022 16:16:05 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11985#comment-48798 In reply to Art.

Agreed, Art!

]]> By: Loretta Houben https://evelazarus.com/the-royal-hudson-goes-south/#comment-48783 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 23:54:56 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11985#comment-48783 My one great regret is never going for a ride on the Royal Hudson. Sigh. I always MEANT to. I always thought it would be there. Why did it quit?

]]> By: Robert Hawkins https://evelazarus.com/the-royal-hudson-goes-south/#comment-48782 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 23:40:43 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11985#comment-48782 In reply to Art.

But there is no available railway tracks for the train to use. The track south from Squamish is nor in private hands as is the old BC Electric line.

]]> By: Gerry N. https://evelazarus.com/the-royal-hudson-goes-south/#comment-48779 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 22:58:39 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11985#comment-48779 In reply to Art.

Highly unlikely that it would or could be brought back in working condition. Finding parts for a 1940 built locomotive is virtually if not impossible today and restoring it would cost millions of dollars. 2860 was rescued from the scrap yard on more than one occasion and its certification expired January 2011. Let the West Coast Railway Association keep it on display in Squamish.

]]> By: Bruce Stewart https://evelazarus.com/the-royal-hudson-goes-south/#comment-48774 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 17:21:12 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11985#comment-48774 Hats off to Angus for his terrific historical shot of the Hudson! When living in LA in the mid-1960s I remember the old freight train that made its way along the middle of Santa Monica Boulevard, traveling at night to avoid daytime traffic! I swear I heard that very train’s plaintive whistle during a late night scene in Roman Polanski’s ‘Chinatown’.

]]> By: Brett Wilkie https://evelazarus.com/the-royal-hudson-goes-south/#comment-48772 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 17:04:22 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11985#comment-48772 I love the old steam engine, I got a couple of close up pictures of her in May 1977 when 2860 was stopped on the side tracks in my old Kerrisdale neighborhood. The engine was facing North so perhaps this might have been the return trip? I have only ever viewed her when she was underway from a sailboat in Howe Sound but it was great to see the steam, smoke and hear the whistle as she made her way up the Coast.

]]> By: Art https://evelazarus.com/the-royal-hudson-goes-south/#comment-48771 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 16:47:00 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=11985#comment-48771 We need to see the Royal Hudson , Steam -up again and get it back working what it was intended to do ,pulling trains .The amount of tourism it created by People from all around the world coming to Vancouver to ride the Train pulled by a Vintage Hudson Engine . It is a big part of our rail history that needs to be preserved in running condition.

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