Suddenly, without warning, halfway through their second season the Pacific Wilderness Railway shut down on 19 Jul 2001. By noon the baggage car ticket office and gift shop had disappeared from end-of-track in Victoria. Nothing remained but a pile of wood and rubble with a sign saying "Sorry... closed for the season". Twenty-six people lost their jobs as a result. Sometime after noon all remaining equipment except one coach lettered Ohio Central was assembled into a train and pulled up-island to Nanaimo for shipment by barge to the mainland. Led by RailAmerica ENR locomotives numbers 3877 and 3870 the PAW consist had new reporting marks quickly stenciled on the equipment. Hauled dead-in-transit Pacific Wilderness units were marked OHCR 705 and OHCR 703. The remaining cars in order were, heritage coach OHCR 5010, deluxe coach OHCR 5499, deluxe coach OHCR 3208 with logo named "The Aerie", baggage car LINC 246, heritage coach OHCR 6609, center flow hopper SOO 113925, and LPG tank car CGTX 64289. By 18:00 the equipment was resting on the run-around track in Wellcox Yard, Nanaimo, awaiting ferry to the mainland. The equipment was reported on the mainland by 31 Jul 2001. The photo shows the consist passing Coastland Lumber Yard south of Nanaimo.