This expansive, mostly outdoor heritage attraction includes a menagerie of pioneer-era buildings and hulking old logging machinery. But the main attraction for many is the working steam-train rides that recall bygone days. It's across the parking lot from the Cowichan Regional Visitor Centre.
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