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Saturday visit to the heritage site

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A black steam locomotive tender lettered Comox Logging Co Ltd and numbered 11, coupled to the locomotive behind it, standing on track beside mown grass and trees, with the yellow end of another machine in the foreground.
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What it actually looks like

Photos from Ladysmith Industrial Heritage Museum's website
Our note
This is a working restoration yard rather than a finished museum, so what is out and what is behind a shop door changes week to week. Saturday morning is the only time the site says anyone is there, which rules out an ordinary weekday class trip unless you ring the heritage committee first. The way in is a gravel road and the yard has track running through it, so sensible shoes beat sandals.

What the children do

The site invites people to come by on a Saturday morning while the volunteer work party is on, watch the restoration work and ask questions. The page names what is there to see: steam Locomotive No. 11, which has been moved inside the Locomotive Shop, the Machine Shop with its blacksmith shop, lathes and large tools, the restored First Aid building, the track, a log car and the Humdirgen, which has had engine work and now runs. The restored First Aid building is used as a reception point for visitors who stop in on a Saturday. No price, visit length, group size, booking process or notice period is published, and nothing on the page is written for schools or daycares.

Walk around an old railway yard beside the harbour, looking at a steam locomotive, a log car, the Humdirgen and the old workshops, and asking the volunteers what they are fixing.

Good to know

Outdoors on an old railway yard, open Saturday mornings while the volunteers are there, with the restored First Aid building as the place visitors are met. No price, washrooms, parking, rain cover or group size is published, so ring before you take a group.

Sources disagree. One page says the volunteers are there every Saturday from 9 to noon. Another says normally every Saturday, which is not quite a promise. Phone 250-245-3075 the week before if you are bringing a group.
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Details checked on 2026-09-03 against the venue’s own pages. Something wrong? , it takes one tap. · Venue page · 250-245-3075