Fraser Canyon, BC: Railroad and Highway Washouts

When I tried to find the location of "Fraser Canyon", Google Map had a popup with red text: "Southern British Columbia floods".

(Satellite for the photo of the railroad bridge over the highway that has disappeared.)

I've seen comments that no railroad crews were injured, but CN, CP and several roads are out of service.

(The Cisco Bridges are downstream from here.)

Kurtis Loth posted a video and five photos with the comment: "Crazy washouts and mudslides out in BC today. Glad to hear the crew was safe." [I don't think these are all at the same location.]

[The comments include washouts of roads as well as tracks.]

Kimberly Steeves shared

Rande Ashley: Steve Dyer Cn and CPRAIL both down.

Mike Bolen

Glad crew is ok. Saw that numerous closures too. BC hwys 1, 3, 5, 7, 99. I-5 , US 101 on the US side plus many there two. Hope our brothers on BNSF and UP ok too. Just saw on Fox News the BNSF Bellingham sub out too.

CP Cascade and Thompson subs plus CN Ashcroft and Yale subs out. Plus likely CN Squamish sub likely too.

It looks like incoming goods are going to be very late. With the other ports backed up too.

Oh and an odd coincidence. Anyone know the tv show Highway thru Hell that is often filmed on the Coq. The one towing company’s yard is in Floods near Hope. They could even be marooned.

This is the company in the tv series Highway through Hell.

popular tow truck company in hope bc - Google Search

https://www.google.ca/search...

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Joe Dockrill shared
Cody Finton: I wouldn’t be standing there. No way !!
Mark Mckay: CP North Bend by Boston Bar, mty grain cars. 

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Alison Hlatky posted
Flyover photo of Hwy#1 near Lytton at Tank Hill.
[#1 is also the Trans-Canada Hwy. Google Maps doesn't know about Tank Hill, but it looks like it is here.]
Leland Dean Fultz shared
11/15/2021 Derailment avoided. North of Hope, British Columbia.
Don Wagoner: Does anyone have a before picture of what it is supposed to look like? [below]
Col Miles: Jamie Davis [of Highway to Hell fame] is gonna be busy.
Graham Brett MacMurphy: Col Miles Jamie can’t even get out of the town he’s based out of. Hope BC is cutoff from the rest of the province

Dennis DeBruler commented on Don's comment on Leland's share

I think I found it:

https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m6!1e1!3m4...

 

Street View

Brian Oberholzer commented on Leland's share
Looks like a mess

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safe_image for Part of Hwy 1 wiped out (source, this also has a video)
"Slide completely wipes out Trans-Canada at Tank Hill east of Lytton....There is currently no route between the Lower Mainland and the rest of Canada."
[I could not imagine how a washout caused that damage. I can easily imagine how a landslide underneath the road caused that damage. Part of the problem is that there are so many road closures and so few roads that they can't get equipment to some of these problems.]

Brian Hume posted three photos with the comment: "Some photos from BC where I understand our rail line has been severed in 16 different places. Rail traffic currently cannot reach Vancouver and our traffic is heavily dependent on container service to that port https://www.facebook.com/cailyn.tompkins.1/videos/3085840785069120/?"

In some places 200mm (8") fell in 8 hours.

Jim Kane: Directional running agreement between CN and CP. Westbound trains on CN and Eastbound trains on CP through the Fraser Canyon.

Joe Dockrill shared

Miles Micheal Chuchmuch: CP took 6 flat car loads of their derailment panels to go west from Thunder Bay a couple days ago.

Chris Rhoads: Belt train and a lot of cars!

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David Brook: I'm assuming this is the east end of North Bend. 

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Dean Selby: This wreck is on the CN Yale sub in BC
William Busby: Incorrect! Mile 13.5 CP Cascade sub.
Laura Larocque: I think this is actually the one at Spuzzum on our tracks.
[It make you wonder how many locomotives got put on their sides that there is so much confusion.]

 

safe_image for Canada floods cut rail link to Vancouver port; one dead
"Drought has sharply reduced the size of Canada's crops this year, meaning a rail disruption of a few days may not create a significant backlog, a grain industry source told Reuters....Floods have also hampered pipelines."

safe_image for CP Rail aims to restore service in B.C. next week after devastating mudslides
"The Vancouver Fraser Port authority said this week no rail traffic is currently able to flow between Vancouver and Kamloops, including on Canadian National Railway Co. lines."