Whistler station service in 2002. The line is now mostly freight only, but the luxury-class Rocky Mountaineer tour trains now operate from the city of North Vancouver via Whistler to Jasper. The current station building was built for Whistler Rail Tours (former operators of the Whistler Sea to Sky Climb) in 2007. During the 2010 Winter Olympics, a special Rocky Mountaineer train sponsored by the government of the neighbouring province of Alberta served as public transit between Vancouver and Whistler. Whistler station Whistler station is located in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, along former BC Rail and before that Pacific Great Eastern Railway
Whistler Blackcomb first summer operation day was June 6, 2009. As Whistler Blackcomb continued to win awards – eight consecutive by 2000 – the resort formed the basis of a renewed Olympics bid, this time for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Calgary also bid for the Canadian entry, as their equipment from the 1988 Winter Olympics was already in place and allowed them to offer a low-cost bid, as did Quebec City, which lost the 2002 bid. Calgary was eliminated in close voting on November 21, 1998, and Vancouver-Whistler won the second round of voting on December 3. In IOC voting Pyeongchang, South