Okanagan Valley Railway

Okanagan Valley Railway (reporting mark OKAN) was the railway division of Omnitrax, a transportation services company. Tracks ran 94 miles (151 km) from Vernon to Sicamous and served five towns en-route. Among the businesses served were forestry, farming, chemicals and cement. Okanagan Valley Railway's biggest customer was OI Canada, Western Canada's only producer of glass beverage containers.

Because the OI glass plant closed in Spring 2009, OKAN lost most of its business and ultimately shut down on September 21, 2009.

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