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Photograph depicts a Comox Logging Railway fire fighting tank car at Ladysmith.

Photograph depicts a homemade (?) device used to scour boiler tubs of scale. Taken at the former site of the Comox Logging Railway's yard and maintenance facilities.

Photograph depicts ballast car #175 built by Western Wheeled Scraper Company, Aurora, Illinois.

Photograph depicts a Comox Logging and Railway Company grade about a mile north of the diamond crossing. Track was used once daily for a train of about 20 cars. The grade was first built as a private railway between the Extension Mine and Ladysmith circa 1900-1925, then the section between Ladysmith and Nanaimo River was converted to a logging railway in about 1935-1940 and was extended up Nanaimo River Creek.

Photograph depicts a small yard switcher used to switch cars in and out of repair shops. It was in use when the photograph was taken.

Photograph taken half of a mile north of the diamond crossing. Visible is a distant signal protecting the crossing. Davies noted that it had not been used for many years.

Photograph depicts the last logs being removed from a 20 car log train which had just arrived from Nanaimo Lakes. Each car held 2 bundles, each of about 20 logs. These in turn were assembled into a large boom and then were towed to the mainland. Cars were emptied by a mechanical prodder and mounted on an old shay frame.

Photograph depicts the division of Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd in Ladysmith.

Photograph depicts the division of Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd in Ladysmith. Visible is a fire car with a former locomotive headlight attached to it.

Photograph depicts a homemade snow plough that had a short wheel base between the trucks. The design of its main frame suggets that it might have been a crane before conversion to its present use.

Photograph depicts a former steam locomotive shed.

Photograph depicts a view of the Ladysmith yard, looking north, about 300 yards east of the city centre.

Photograph depicts a daily log train from Nanaimo Lakes. About 20 cars were being unloaded at a rather fast rate of 30-60 seconds per car using a mechanical prodder mounted on the frames of an old shay locomotive.

Photograph depicts a deisel switcher #107.

Photograph depicts a grand view of the Ladysmith yards. There had been no steam operations on this line for about 2 years.

Photograph depicts the lower part of the Ladysmith yard, adjacent to a log pond. A semaphore signal was activated by the tide and indicated to the engineer of the log train the suitable depth for offloading logs from the cars.

Photograph depicts the outside of the Comox Logging head office in Ladysmith.

Photograph depicts a log car repair shop. Visible is one car being repaired as well as another awaiting attention on a switch spur on the right.

Photograph taken about half a mile north of the diamond crossing, looking southeast at the point where the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway closely follows the Comox Railway for about 300 yards. The Comox Railway used one every week for log trains.

Photograph depicts sidings for empty log cars about a quarter of a mile south of the diamond crossing. Image captured looking south, towards the Ladysmith yards. The running line is visible on the right side of the photograph and was used week by a daily log train, consisting of a deisel locomotive and 20 cars.

Photograph depicts deisel switcher #108.

Photograph depicts a mobile crane used to offload log trains into a pond.

Photograph depicts a snow plough in the Ladysmith yards.

Photograph depicts the commencement of the B.C. Electric Railway right-of-way at Commercial Dr. and near 22nd Ave. in Vancouver. It was built in 1891. The view is looking southeast towards New Westminster.

Photograph depicts 40 miles of trackage, of which 90% was located underground. It was owned by the Cominco Mine Railway of the private Sullivan Mine. The surface main line ran from the portal of the mine to a concentrator.

Photograph depicts the surface main line of the Cominco Mine Railway of the private Sullivan Mine. The line ran from the mine's portal to a concentrator. Visible locomotives dated from 1923 to 1952.

Photograph depicts stationed gauge trackage that was owned privately and laid near a concentrator that connected the CPR Kimberley branch. Visible are various spurs to wharehouses and sheds.

Photograph depicts the Cominco Mine Railway and the private Sullivan Mine. This section was near a concentrator as well as Chapman Camp. Davies suggested that it could a stationed gauge connector between the CPR Kimberley branch line and the concentrator that was used for incoming supplies and machinery.

Photograph depicts the Cominco Ltd. In Kimberley, near Cranbrook. There is a 3' gauge overhead electric railway serving the underground workings of Sullivan mine. The view shows the C.P.R. access in the valley and the old mine portal, still used for in-going materials and supplies, at the right center of the photo.

Photograph depicts the combined Canadian National Railway (CN) and C.P.R. wharf at Summerland on Okanagan Lake. The trackage extends behind the camera for about 150 yards. It is used mainly for summer fruit traffic.

Photograph depicts a collision between two freights (visible is the head of one and the tail of the other) at this switch. The signal was knocked down, but a replacement was erected. It was being tested while the photograph was being taken. Switch blade movements were remotely controlled.

Photograph depicts a collision that occurred at the west switch of the crossing in Savona. At some point, freight was derailed by huge pipes that rolled on the track in November 1991.

Photograph depicts the coking ovens at Union Bay on Vancouver Island. They belong to the Canadian Collieries Ltd. and the date last used is unknown.

Photograph depicts the Cobble Hill Station on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway on Vancouver Island. The view is looking south.

Photograph depicts the coasting vessel "Hecate Prince" owned by the Northland Navigation Co. Ltd. at their wharf on the southeast side of Vancouver Harbour.

Photograph depicts a Coastgaurd ship, "Narwhal," at the Department of Transport wharf in Seal Cove.

Photograph depicts the coast guard cutter "Racer" at Burrard Federal Dock in Kitsilano, Vancouver.

Photograph depicts the coast guard crash boat "Moorhen. It is an ex- RCAF rescue launch at Kitsilano Federal wharf, False Creek, Vancouver. Sister ship is the "Mallard."

Photograph depicts the coaling wharf at Union Bay on Vancouver Island. It is the property of the Canadian Colliery Resources Ltd. It was last used on August 15, 1960. Thereafter, all equipment and railways were dismantled but the water tank is still standing.

Photograph depicts coal wharves at the seaward end of the railway that connected with coal mines at Cumberland and Union Bay. Image captured looking northwest with coke ovens located on the right and covered by brush.