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"Seabee Amphibian"
2013.6.36.1.083.02 · Item · Oct. 1969
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a monoplane called the "Seabee Amphibian." It was a 3 seater and produced by the Republic Aviation Corp. About 10 of these aircraft were grouped together near the Vancouver International Airport on Sea Island. All were separately owned and in different finishes and states of care.

Saw mill yard
2013.6.36.1.029.08 · Item · [July or Aug. 1983]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a sawmill yard at CPR yard adjacent to barge slip at the end of the branch line. Slocan Lake is in the distance.

Saddle tank, Fernie
2013.6.36.1.053.40 · Item · 20 Aug. 1983
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a saddle tank built by Porter Company, Pittsburgh, USA in 1901. It was used for charging coke ovens and was acquired from the Crows Nest Pass Coal Company in 1970.

Roundhouse at Cranbrook
2013.6.36.1.028.17 · Item · Aug. 1983
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a roundhouse with 16 bays at Cranbrook. Currently 7 were fitted with rails, of which 5 bays are in use. Four of these bays were holding snowplows and 2 were clearly not used. Three of the sixteen bays appear to never have been fitted with track.

Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours
2013.6.36.1.105.07 · Item · Nov. 1993
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts cars of the Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours. Believed that the year the photograph was taken was the first that cars of the company were stored in Kamloops as before they were stored in Vancouver. The initial experience was bad because there was an unseasonable cold snap in November and December that froze all the batteries underneath the cars and ruined them (bursting occured).

Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours
2013.6.36.1.107.09 · Item · Sept. 1997
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a completed yard of the Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours built on the Kamloops Indian Reserve, about 1 1/4 miles northeast of the VIA waiting room at the CN Kamloops Junction.

2013.6.36.1.107.07 · Item · [21 June 1998]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a Rocky Mountaineer Jasper train that had just been propelled into the downtown Kamloops CN station. Once passengers de-trained, the empty train was pulled into R.M.R private trackage on K.I.R. for overnight stabling, cleaning, and restocking.

Rocky Mountaineer
2013.6.36.1.107.06 · Item · [21 June 1998]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a Rocky Mountaineer train with a propelling locomotive short distance away approaching Chilcoltin Road, Kamloops Indian Reserve. St. Joseph's Church is on the left.