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  • Includes: buildings; monuments and statues; bridges and trestles; building management; construction.
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          4414 Archival description results for Buildings and Structures

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          2013.6.36.1.079.05 · Item · [9 Sept. 1970]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a working undershot water wheel on Lardeau Creek River. It was the only water wheel seen in B.C. between 1963 and 1970. It was designed to drive an electricity generating set, but it was not coupelled to the set at the time.

          Undershot water wheel
          2013.6.36.1.079.11 · Item · 5 Sept. 1970
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the same person who owned the service station building electric generator house in Trout Lake. He also built an undershot water wheel that was driven by Lardeau Creek.

          Replacement rail bridge
          2013.6.36.1.091.02 · Item · Sept. 1998
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a replacement rail bridge. Forms sat on a temporary pile of dirt, which in turns sat on a road bed of a new highway that had just been cut.

          New CN overpass
          2013.6.36.1.091.05 · Item · Sept. 1998
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a new CN overpass in Campbell Creek. Looking at new eastbound lane of the Trans Canada Highway. It was all paid for by the Provincial Department of Highways in order to convert the 2 lanes into 4 in order to improve visibility and stretch the highway.

          New CN overpass
          2013.6.36.1.091.07 · Item · Sept. 1998
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a new CN overpass in Campbell Creek. The new part of the Trans-Canada Highway beneath it had yet to be paved.

          New CN overpass
          2013.6.36.1.091.08 · Item · Sept. 1998
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a new CN overpass in Campbell Creek. The grade crossing at the newly created service/business road was built on the south side of a road/rail complex.

          CPR Wynndel
          2013.6.36.1.129.01 · Item · Sept. 2000
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a grain elevator that had a 7 car spur to service it. Davies doubted if grain traffic ever moved by rail near Wynndel. Two flat cars appeared to have used the platform to overload machinery and vehicles.

          CPR Wynndel
          2013.6.36.1.129.04 · Item · Sept. 2000
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken looking north, with a spur in the foreground. It was used by ore mixed freight daily. It was believed that at the bottom of the grade was a junction with a GNR branch that ran from the US border south of Creston to Kootenay Lake (built in 1904, then was hardly used, finally ceased in 1910).

          Section bunk house
          2013.6.36.1.152.01 · Item · Sept. 2000
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a CPR section bunk house in Midway. On the left was a living room with two windows, stove, and sink. Bedroom with one window and two beds located on the right.

          2013.6.36.1.152.02 · Item · Sept. 2000
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a tool house in Wasa, at the CPR Windermere Subdivision. Before 1970, the station had siding for 37 cars. Now it had two sidings for a total of 150 cars. Note the old box car with old lettering that was presumably on non-reserve service.