The ''Cariboo Prospector'', also named the Cariboo Dayliner, was a

passenger train A passenger train is a train used to transport people along a railroad line, as opposed to a freight train that carries goods. These trains may consist of unpowered passenger railroad cars (also known as coaches or carriages) push-pull train, ...

service in British Columbia, Canada, from North Vancouver to

Lillooet Lillooet () is a district municipality in the Squamish-Lillooet region of southwestern British Columbia. The town is on the west shore of the Fraser River immediately north of the Seton River mouth. On BC Highway 99, the locality is by road abo ...

and Prince George. It used

Budd Rail Diesel Car The Budd Rail Diesel Car (RDC), also known as the Budd car or Buddliner, is a self-propelled diesel multiple unit (DMU) railcar. Between 1949 and 1962, 398 RDCs were built by the Budd Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The cars ...

trains and was operated by the Pacific Great Eastern, later known as the British Columbia Railway Company and then

BC Rail The British Columbia Railway Company , commonly known as BC Rail, is a railway in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Chartered as a private company in 1912 as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE), it was acquired by the provincial ...

. It debuted in 1915. The train ran from BC Rail's North Vancouver railway station, the one located a few blocks from the current North Vancouver railway station used by the ''

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'', and ran to Lillooet railway station. From there a section was split from the train that would continue down to Prince George BC Rail station located in BC Rail's Prince George yards. The ''Cariboo Prospector'' carried 81,000 total passengers in 2001 and had an operating loss of $4.8 million for that year; the Budd Rail fleet had also reached the end of its useful life by then. The service ended along with the other BC Rail passenger trains on October 31, 2002, due to the operating costs and need for new cars. A section serving the line between Lillooet, Seton Portage, and D'Arcy was replaced by the Kaoham Shuttle.

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