Lillooet, British Columbia renews calls for passenger rail service

By Brandon Barrett, Pique Magazine; September 1, 2018

Mayor Marg Lampman still remembers a time when the Cariboo Prospector would usher passengers from North Vancouver to the centre of Lillooet, adding a layer of animation to the rural town that it has struggled to recapture.

“The Cariboo Prospector, or the Budd car as we used to call it, used to come to Lillooet three times a week. They would drop the passengers off for three hours and they would wander around through our main street and enhance our small-business community, and then turn around and go back down again,” the Lillooet mayor recalled. “This was successful at that time.”

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