Mossleigh Alberta - The 11 cars of the former Okanagan Valley Wine Train, which had been owned by Nagel Tours, have now been moved from Kelowna, B.C., where they were stored since 2002.
 
CN hauled them, starting on 10 Oct 2015, from Kelowna to Kamloops, where they were transferred to CP, who hauled them to Calgary, where they arrived at Alyth Yard in the dark on 17 Oct 2015.
 
On 20 Oct 2015 CP moved them south along the Aldersyde Subdivision to Kipp Yard near Lethbridge on Train Number 469, from there a CP way freight moved them north again on the Aldersyde Sub then backed them onto the CP Lomond Spur at Herronton.
 
From there the Aspen Crossing Railway S-3 number 8454 pulled them to just west of Mossleigh at milepost 14, on 25 Oct 2015.
 
Apparently the cars have a new owner who will be storing them for the time being at the Aspen Crossing Railway in Mossleigh.
 
Note that Aspen Crossing Railway is not the new owner.
 
If anyone is wondering why CP would haul the cars the 115 miles from Calgary to Lethbridge and then back again for 70 miles on the same track it's because CP removed the south leg of the wye at Eltham Junction (the junction with the Lomond Spur), leaving only the north switch.
 
Therefore, only a northbound train can back cars into the Lomond Spur.
 
Nine of the 11 cars were originally built in 1954 for the CNR for use on the Super-Continental.
 
The tenth car is a baggage car built for the CNR in 1958.
 
The eleventh car was built in 1960 as a steam generator car for CNR passenger train service.
 
All of the cars were transferred to VIA Rail in March of 1978 and were acquired by Nagel Tours in 1998, who operated them on the Okanagan Valley Wine Train until 2002.
 
Cor van Steenis.