What facilities or businesses does BNSF serve once they cross into the Lower Mainland?
Please define the “Lower Mainland”.
“Greater Vancouver” British Columbia is roughly the same thing, or the “Fraser River Delta”, home for about 2,000,000 people. I am not sure if Lower refers to the altitude, or the southern part of the Province, or both. Mainland differentiates it from Vancouver Island, 280 miles long and home for 500,000 people.
I’m not sure what businesses are served by BNSF, but facilities are pretty limited. There are two or three spurs at the east end of the Vancouver/Pacific Central yard area(almost underneath the Terminal Street Viaduct) where BNSF parks a couple of switchers and such (couple of GP30s and SW1500s I think). There is fuel there and maybe a small atco shack (been a while since I looked). The GN station Vancouver is long gone, though you can still see the empty lot beside the CN station (now Pacific Central) where is used to be. In New Westminster, the Braid Street Yard as a few small buildings and there are usually a few BNSF locos idling.
Don’t they refer to the “Lower Fraser Valley” ?? and the farther north sections of the river as the “Upper Fraser” you’re right about all the people who live around here it seems 98% of all people in B.C. live within 400 feet of the U.S./Canada border and a few souls over on the “island” If I can recall, isn’t 99.876% of the province uninhabitable with the remaining % presently being eaten by the spruce budworm.