Train rides will be returning to the Port Alberni waterfront this summer. Port Alberni city council has agreed to enter into a one-year agreement with the Western Vancouver Island Industrial Heritage Society (IHS) to operate a short-track passenger train service along the waterfront. The train, which will be pulled by a diesel locomotive instead of a steam train, will run a round trip from the train station between APD Sawmill and Dry Creek, a distance of approximately 1.3 kilometres, starting in mid-June. Ticket sales will start around mid-May. In a previous report, IHS vice...… Train rides will be returning to the Port Alberni waterfront this summer. Port Alberni city council has agreed to enter into a one-year agreement with the Western Vancouver Island Industrial Heritage Society (IHS) to operate a short-track passenger train service along the waterfront. The train, which will be pulled by a diesel locomotive instead of a steam train, will run a round trip from the train station between APD Sawmill and Dry Creek, a distance of approximately 1.3 kilometres, starting in mid-June. Ticket sales will start around mid-May. In a previous report, IHS vice...WW…