The West Coast Railway Heritage Park, located just north of Vancouver on the Sea to Sky (Whistler) corridor in Squamish, B.C., is a 12 acre destination attraction built on a railway heritage theme. Central to the site is Western Canada's largest heritage railway equipment collection (65 pieces of rolling stock) and over 10,000 feet of operable trackage.

The Heritage Park site features a variety of scenery options, including stunning mountain and valley views, forested areas and flat open spaces. In filmings to date the site has been shown as Sweet Apple, Ohio; Banff, Alberta and Charity, Oregon. A variety of scenes are possible, with two railway stations (large and small) which allows for departure and arrival shots in a film context.

Opening Spring 2000 will be the new community area of the Heritage Park, with the new main railway station facility and a heritage home. To be added soon are the fire hall, and a corner grocery store, then several more buildings in future years laid out along a typical Main Street / Railway Ave. cross section.

The Heritage Park also offers a number of buildings - large (PGE Carshop 1914, industrial) and small (Wilkie bunkhouse, scale house) on the property.

The West Coast Railway Heritage Park makes available much of its collection on a rental basis for movie use both on and off site. From rolling stock (freight and passenger, 1890 through 1970 eras) to various props such as crossing signals, lanterns, railway uniforms etc., Western Canada's largest heritage railway collection has what you need for your railway movie shoot.

Also available is our 3 km miniature railway line that encircles the Heritage Park, and offers operating models of several of our full sized locomotives.

For rolling stock information, check out the "Our Collection" section of this website. Note that some pieces of the collection are not released for operating movie work on account of their fragile nature or extreme historical significance.

CONNECTED TO BC RAIL

The West Coast Railway Heritage Park is rail connected to BC Rail's mainline at Squamish. This means easy access to the BC Rail line for rolling stock, should operational requirements necessitate. The Heritage Park works cooperatively with BC Rail on movie opportunities. BC Rail is a movie friendly railway with a high quality mainline, stunning variety of scenery, and a significant collection of rolling stock of its own.

CONTACT US The West Coast Railway Heritage Park looks forward to talking with you about your rail movie requirements. Contact us by calling our Development office in Vancouver at (604) 681-4403 or by Email: movies@wcra.org