High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Victoria – Courtenay train (formerly the Malahat), commonly known as the Dayliner, is a passenger train service operated by Via Rail between Victoria, Nanaimo, and Courtenay on a rail line owned by the Island Corridor Foundation who also contracts out freight operations to the Southern Railway of Vancouver Island (formerly known as the Esquimalt Nanaimo Railway). The train was formerly operated with one or two Budd Rail Diesel Cars. Via Rail has operated the passenger train since 1979. The service has been threatened with discontinuation several times. Currently, service has been suspended indefinitely since March 19, 2011, due to track replacement work.Prior to further inspection of the track, service along the segment between Nanaimo and Victoria was originally planned to resume on April 8. On May 10, nearly two months after suspension, the old Budd cars were moved from the roundhouse in Victoria to a secure yard in Nanaimo, in...