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Lytton now has virtually all of the freight that travels across Canada passing through it.

The railways carry billions of tons a year and almost a half million trucks add to that load.

The increase in reliability of equipment and the roads means that this hugely increased volume has almost no economic impact on the Village.

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Just one of over a half million trucks which travel through Lytton each year.
2001
Lytton, BC

3

The forest industry provides economic benefit to Lytton.
19 October 2004
Lytton, BC

4

The new and old routes cross over each other continuously in the canyons. The keen observer can see the old 1858 Pack Trail, the Cariboo Wagon Road of 1863 and the Fraser Canyon Highway of 1920 while driving the new Highway 1 at modern highway speeds.

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The old Cariboo Wagon Road is just discernible above the present Highway 1 at this location.
6 July 2004
At Jade Springs near Lytton

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The old Fraser Canyon Highway beside the new Trans Canada Highway
29 August 2004
On Highway 1, South of Boston Bar

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The old canyon route, overgrown at left, is bypassed by the new Highway 1 route.
6 July 2004
Oregon Jack summit, near Spences Bridge, BC

8

With Lytton no longer being an important freight way point, the economy is changing again.

The resource industries, particularly forestry, still contribute, but tourism brings in substantial economic benefit now.

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A vintage train crossing the Siska Bridge, south of Lytton in 2003.
2003
Off Highway 1, South of Lytton

10

'The Empress' stops in Lytton in 2004.
2004
Lytton, BC

11

A tourist train, The Rocky Mountaineer, passes our Village in the middle of the day on it's way to Kamloops where passengers spend the night and continue the next day through the Rocky Mountains to Calgary.

It provides no service to Lytton.

12

The 'Rocky Mountaineer' tourist train follows the scenic Fraser Canyon route.
2003
Near Lytton, BC

13

Whitewater rafting and wilderness hiking are only two of the tourist activities now enjoyed by thousands on their visit to our area.

14

Rafters disembark at Lytton after their trip down the Thompson River.
1990
Lytton, BC