B.C.E.R. Interurban 1231
1231, built by the St. Louis Car Company, ran in Vancouver until the Steveston line was closed in 1958.  It was then sold to a museum on Snoqualmie Falls, Washington.  In the mid-70s, it was bought and returned to Vancouver by then NDP Premier Dave Barret and sat in a warehouse in Burnaby for about 10 years.

It's next destination was Victoria, where a group of vollunteers and caftsmen lovely rebuilt the car.

She was shipped to Vancouver in 1997 to run on the Vancouver Downtown Historic Railway.


 

Carrell St. Station
(July 5, 1949)

Hastings & Vernon Dr.
(March 1951)

Cassair
(August 6, 1951)

Murrin
(August 26, 1951)

Douglas Rd.

Hill
(July 21, 1951)

Stomont
(August 26, 1951)

Cariboo
(June 4, 1951)

Douglas Rd.
Last Day of Operation
(October 23, 1953)

Marpole
(April 1957)

Kits Barns
Last Day of Steveston line operation
(February 28, 1958)

North Vancouver
(August 3, 1975)

Drake St. Yards,
Vancouver, BC
(April 26, 1976)

Burnaby, B.C.
(March 13, 1985)

(February 4, 1991)

(February 7, 1991)

(February 12, 1991)

(February 12, 1991)

(June 10, 1991)

(August 21, 1997)

September 25, 1997)

(October 21, 1997)
Photos courtesy Bob Webster
Copyright Matthew Laird, 1999
Last updated December 27, 1999