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2013.6.02.6 · File · 1994-2011
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of maps of the Pacific Great Eastern (PGE) and BC Rail (BCR) trackage in British Columbia, which consist of photocopy reproductions and hand drawn works by Davies. Includes maps of PGE/BCR track in various B.C. cities (Fort St. John, Chetwynd, Dawson Creek, Squamish, 100 Mile House, Lillooet, Fort Nelson, Williams Lake, West Vancouver, Quesnel); maps of PGE/BCR track at various times (1973, 1986); and maps of the Dease Lake extension.

Passenger coaches in general
2013.6.11.1.1 · File · 2002-2012
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of research material regarding passenger cars in general, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on rail diesel cars (RDC/Budd car), baggage coaches, diner cars, Pullman cars/sleeper cars, observation cars, and other passenger coaches.

Passenger fares
2013.6.28.3 · File · 2012-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding railway passenger fares. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes past passenger rates for E&N, CN, BC Rail, PGE, CPR, GNR, VIA Rail, and BCER Interurbans.

Passenger publicity
2013.6.28.2 · File · 2005-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding railway publicity directed toward potential passengers. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes a 1924 CNR pamphlet "Across Canada from the Pacific to Atlantic", which contains a pull-out route map; a Canadian National 1928 pamphlet advertising the Canadian Rockies; ticket stubs; and many other ephemeral publications for rail passengers.

Passenger trains
2013.6.16.1 · File · 2002-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of research material regarding the practical aspects of operating passenger trains, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on equipment, running, maintenance, routes, speeds, and car weights. Also provides visuals of various passenger trains.

Past Pieces
2013.6.36.1.005 · File · 1964-1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of historical objects in British Columbia.

People and railways
2013.6.33.07 · File · 1970-2011
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding the relationships between people and railways. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, pamphlets, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about railways and Remembrance Day, railway noise, railway nostalgia, railway hobos, and railfanning.

2013.6.22.1.08 · File · 1981-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of historical summaries and general data for the Pacific Great Eastern Railway and later, BC Rail. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "P.G.E.R. 1914 to 1923, Progressive Dates of Commencement of Passenger Service" by Davies; "Splintered Dream" by Schmidt; "Arriving at Squamish in 1928: The Story of Eric P. Stathers" by Eric Stathers; "Tales of Trails and Rails: CPR, PGE, and Others North of Squamish" by Eric Johnson; "Pacific Great Eastern Railway: Moving British Columbia's Resources to the Markets of the World" (1971); "B.C. Rail in Review" (1974); "An Electrified Finale" by Dale Sanders; "Brief Overview of the PGE, BCR, and BC Rail" by Douglas Smith; "Remembering BC Rail" by Mark Forseille; "All time PGE, BCR, BC Rail Roster" by Paul C. Smith; "The PGE is a 'Different' Railway" by Peter Cox; and "North to the Yukon!" by C. Willis Creighton. Also includes 1974 and 1995 BC Rail schedules.

PGE and BC Rail histories
2013.6.22.1.03 · File · 1986-2000
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of publications by Timothy J. Horton entitled "The British Columbia Railway (Volume One)", "The Pacific Great Eastern Railway (Volume Two)", and "The Pacific Great Eastern Railway (Volume Three)".

PGE era to 1971
2013.6.22.1.11 · File · 1979-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of research material regarding the Pacific Great Eastern Railway up until its transition to the British Columbia Railway in 1971. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "Diverging Lines: The PGE at Lillooet" by Johnson and Hind; "Bridge River and the Pacific Great Eastern Railway" by Hind; "Passenger Fares, PGE, late 1958" by Davies; "P.G.E. between Quesnel and Prince George: Original Routing" by Davies; "The PGE Iron Ore Spur at Alta Lake and the Iron King Mine: PGE's First Bulk Mineral Shipper" by Johnson; "1931 PGER Deviation at Lillooet" by Davies; "Ballad of the P.G.E." by Harry Hopkins; "PGE's Shalalth Auto Ferry Service" by Hind; and "How the P.G.E. Changed my Life" by Basil Franey. Also includes information on the PGER dock at Squamish, the PGE in Lillooet, and the PGE's name train 'North Country Limited'.

PGE publications
2013.6.22.1.02 · File · 1965-2003
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of publications published or sponsored by the Pacific Great Eastern Railway or BC Rail. Includes the following works: "Cariboo Prospector Passenger Train, 1956-2002" (2003); "Pacific Great Eastern Railway: A Presentation Depicting the Growth of the Railway Since its Inception" (1965); "Northern British Columbia: The Awakening Giant", a paper presented by J.S. Broadbent to the Prince George Construction Association and Northern B.C. Construction Association (1971); "Pacific Great Eastern: Profile of a Modern Railroad" (1969); and "Pacific Great Eastern Railway Patterns of Growth" (1972).

PGE stations
2013.6.06.5 · File · 2003-2012
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of research material regarding Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) stations in British Columbia, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on various PGE stations and a listing by Davies entitled "Railway Stations in B.C. by Railway Company: PGE". Also includes an article by Patrick O. Hind entitled "Bridge River and the Pacific Great Eastern Railway".

2013.6.22.2.6 · File · 2010-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of research material regarding Pacific Great Eastern Railway and BC Rail Dease Lake extension. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "PGE/BCR: Dease Lake Extension - First 25 Years, 1968 to 1993"; PGE/BCR Dease Lake Branch Progress at end of 1974; "Dease Lake or Bust: BC Rail's Takla Sub, a Socred Mega-Project, Lives On" by Johnson; and "To Alaska or Bust on a Mixed Train: Was BCR's Dease Lake line too late...or too early?" by Patterson and McMillan. Also includes a map of the Dease Lake extension annotated by Davies.

2013.6.33.04 · File · 1984-2000
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of philatelic and numismatic material related to railways. Includes Canadian mint postage stamps; Cancelled-To-Order (CTO) postage stamps from Bulgaria, Hungary, Cuba, Cambodia, and Benin; souvenir booklets for Canadian Locomotives stamp releases; issues of the Commemorative Stamp Bulletin for the Canadian Locomotives releases; an article by Fred Angus entitled "Railway Subjects on Canadian Stamps"; and a 1999 commemorative Canadian quarter with a steam locomotive.

Porter locomotives
2013.6.31.1.6 · File · 2002-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding Porter locomotives, a type of light-duty locomotive manufactured by H.K. Porter, Inc. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes background notes by Davies on the H.K. Porter company and a compiled list of all known Porter locomotives that worked in British Columbia and the Yukon.

2013.6.32.20 · File · 2002-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding the preservation of interurban cars. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, pamphlets, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "The Downtown Historical Railway - A Look at Vancouver's Interurban Revival" by Webster; "BCER 1223 Joins in Trolley Revival" by McGeachie; and "The Downtown Vancouver Historic Railway" by Murphy.

2013.6.18.1.5 · File · 1968-2006
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of publicity material produced by the Canadian Pacific Railway, including promotional pamphlets, a CPR catalogue of merchandise, "Spanner", and a booklet about the Rogers Pass Project.

2013.6.29.21 · File · 2006-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding the rail-related aspects of livestock cartage. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about SPCA inspections, stock car accidents, shipping cattle and sheep by rail, weight of livestock, stockmen on trains, livestock loading, the last stock car shipment in Canada, stockyards, ranching in the southern interior plateau of British Columbia, hay feeding, other details relating to stock trains. Also includes a book chapter by David Davies entitled "Cowtown and Railcity" about Kamloops' connection with rail livestock cartage.

2013.6.30.1.1 · File · 1968-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of general material regarding rail ferries in British Columbia. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "British Columbia's Rail Water Services in 1968" (1969) by Davies; "Rail-Water Services in B.C., 1968" (2008) by Davies; "93 Years of Railway Ferries on San Francisco Bay" by James Holden; "Integration in the North" by George W. Hilton; "Legacy of a Rowboat... Foss - 'Always Ready'" by Foss Launch & Tug Company; "The Quebec Train Ferry of 1914" by S.S. Worthen; "Great Lakes Car Ferries: An Endangered Species" by George W. Hilton; and "Pacific Northwest Rail-Marine Bibliography" by John Teichmoeller. Also includes information about CNR's marine activities, GNR port service, railway links to Cape Breton Island, CN Alaska cruises, and earlier barge-slips (pre-1968).

2013.6.29.01 · File · 2005-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of general material regarding rail freight transport. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about L.C.L. (Less-Than-Carload) service, freight way bills, car loading statistics, freight customers in British Columbia, freight revenue, freight car pooling, the effect of the 2008 recession on freight traffic, and freight on short lines. Also includes a 1969 CN booklet of "Car Sealing Instructions" and a 2004 publication by Jeff Wilson entitled "The Model Railroader's Guide to Industries Along the Tracks".

Rail passengers: Overview
2013.6.28.1 · File · 2005-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of general research material regarding railway passengers. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about the decline in North American passenger traffic in the 1950s and 1960s, how conductors should deal with problematic passengers, passenger experiences, and fare ticketing.

Rails and track
2013.6.07.01 · File · 1988-2012
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of research material regarding rails and track, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on tie plates and track fastenings, guard rails, KVR roadbeds and rails, descriptions of rail failures, track upgrades on the CNR North Line, concrete ties, grantlet track, track curvature, steel rail manufacture, and rail specifications. Also includes original reporting forms for rail failures.

Railway accidents in general
2013.6.17.1 · File · 2001-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of research material regarding train accidents in general and miscellaneous railway mishaps, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on locomotives lost in BC lakes and rivers; KVR wrecks; general rail safety; train collisions (including collisions at Edson and Hinton); the 1908 Fernie fire; train derailments (including derailments at Biggar, Prince George, and Kelly Lake), black boxes, and fire prevention.

Railway collectibles
2013.6.33.05 · File · 1972-1992
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding railway collectibles ("Railroadiana"). Includes catalogues of collectibles for purchase and CNR memorabilia catalogues.

Railway gardens
2013.6.06.9 · File · 2010-2012
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of research material regarding railway gardens (usually located next to railway stations), which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on railway gardens in Cranbrook, Vancouver, Kamloops, and Blue River. Also includes an article by Vallerand and Smith in Canadian Rail no. 530 entitled "Railway Gardens".

2013.6.28.4 · File · 2005-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of material regarding railway hotels in British Columbia and restaurant car catering. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes advertisement pamphlets for CPR hotels; a CN memorabilia catalogue; two articles by Lorne Perry entitled "Dining as the World Slides By" and "New Look for Uniforms"; an article by Rodger Touchie entitled "Hotels Along the Rails"; and information about railway hotels in the B.C. and Alberta Rockies.