Sicker Railway was a narrow-gauge railway which hauled copper ore from the Lenora mine on Mount Sicker to tidewater at Crofton on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
In spring 1897, Harry Smith noticed a copper outcrop on a section of Mt.
Sicker and BC Development Co., which built a wagon road from the Westholme station on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway (E&N).
The next year, Henry Croft, brother-in-law of James Dunsmuir, bought the mine, which he reorganized as the Lenora, Mt.
[2] The company built a 5-kilometre (3 mi) narrow gauge line from the Lenora mine dump, down the mountain, across the wagon road, and terminating at a company siding on the E&N, immediately southwest of Westholme.
Becoming operational in March 1890, the horse-drawn railway wagons frequently derailed because of inferior track construction.
[3] A replacement 10-kilometre (6 mi) route surveyed, grading began in August 1900.
The grade was 13 per cent on the steepest section[3] of the 3 ft (914 mm) gauge track.
This line, and the new Crofton smelter, made it economical to transport lower grade ore.
From 1902, Croft called the enterprise the "Lenora Mount Sicker Railway", but this was not popularly adopted.
bankruptcy proceedings finalized, a horse-drawn flatcar was assigned for track lifting operations.
2,[11] which ran first at Campbell River, and then on Hernando Island until 1920, when wrecked and scrapped.
In a 1919 derailment, the engineer was fatally scalded, as had happened the prior year before the purchase.