Photograph depicts the GNR (later became BN) branch from Kettle Falls to Grand Forks.
Photograph depicts a CPR snow plow, built in 1921 at Angus Shops in Montreal. Also visible is a spreader-ditcher, buil by O.F. Jordan Co. in 1959. Spotted at the Kamloops depot.
Photograph taken looking east from the Salmon Arm depot which still stood (as stores and offices) on its original site.
Photograph depicts a grain elevator which Wynndel was famous for.
Photograph depicts locomotive cars waiting for stage two of the Cranbrook Railway Museum's development of artifacts.
Photograph depicts a train departing for the Crow's Nest Pass.
Photograph depicts a close up of weigh track in Cranbrook.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Pacific Wilderness Railway tourist train in Victoria, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts a Pacific Wilderness Railway car. Built in the 1920s. Found at the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard in Victoria. Lettered "Heritage Coach."
Photograph taken at the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard in Victoria. Visible is a Pacific Wilderness Railway coach and a Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway Heritage Society caboose.
Photograph depicts the newly created heritage railway, the Pacific Wilderness Railway, at the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard in Victoria. Visible is a newly painted locomotive that had recently started service in late June of the year the photograph was taken.
Photograph depicts a CNR crane trolley/car that had shackles on all four corners latched onto its rails to prevent overbalancing.
Photograph depicts a hand car at the Fort Steele Railway Museum. Built by Fairmont of Canada.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of railway maintenance of way buildings in British Columbia.
Photograph depicts an abandoned section in Wasa, on the CPR Windermere Subdivision. Built in 1914-20. Very rare at this date. The only known of the same type was in Brookmere (private and lived in).
File consists of a manuscript by Tom Patterson entitled "Canadian National's British Columbia North Line: An Historical Perspective". Also includes correspondence between Davies and Patterson.
Photograph depicts parked construction train equipment that included an old tank car that used to carry non-drinking water. It was to be drained when not in use.
Photograph taken at the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard in Victoria. Visible is a Pacific Wilderness Railway car that had been refurbished and painted in May 2000.
Photograph depicts a newly created heritage railway, the Pacific Wilderness Railway, in Victoria. The car had been a 1920s coach before restoration.
Photograph taken at a railway museum in Midway. Visible is an abandoned CPR gang car made by Fairmont Railway Motors Ltd/Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Photograph taken at a railway museum in Midway. Visible is an abandoned CPR gang car made by Fairmont Railway Motors Ltd/Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Photograph depicts a pump car at the Fort Steele Railway Museum. Pump car made by Sylvester Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Linsay, Ontario. Two men were needed in order to make one full revolution of the crank.
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.
Photograph depicts a BN snow plow in Fruitvale.
Photograph depicts a never used CPR snow plow, built in 1921 at Angus Shops in Montreal. Spotted at the Kamloops depot.
Photograph depicts northbound freight passing near the Salmon Arm depot.
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.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of railway features in Cranbrook, British Columbia.
File consists of research material relating to the British Columbia North Line (Jasper to Prince Rupert) after it switched to Canadian National Railway ownership in 1922. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "The British Columbia Northeast Coal Development Project: A Canadian National Perspective" by Patterson; "Destiny's Railroad" by Neuberger; "CNR in McBride area"; "Canadian National's Tete Jaune Cut-off Project" by Patterson; "Kwinitsa Depot, CNR, as at July 1980" by Davies; "History of Track Upgradings on CNR North Line (Jasper to Prince Rupert), 1945-1985" by Davies; "The Port of Prince Rupert" by Patterson; "Prince George: The Railway Hub of Central British Columbia" by Bernsohn and Lill; "Doin' the Fraser" by Patterson; "Canada's Armoured Train"; and "No. 1 Armoured Train" by Grimshaw.
File consists of two 2000 publications by Richard Yaremko from the "Canadian Rail Car Pictorial" series entitled "Volume Five: Canadian Pacific Stock & Refrigerator Cars" and "Volume Six: Canadian National Refrigerator & Stock Cars".
Photograph depicts parked construction train equipment that included an old tank car that used to hold diesel fuel.
Photograph depicts a CPR snow plow, built in 1921 at Angus Shops in Montreal. Spotted at the Kamloops depot.
Photograph taken opposite the CPR depot in downtown Kamloops. Snow plow built in 1921. Spreader dated 1959.
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).
Photograph depicts the east side of the CPR yard in Cranbrook. The depot is visible on the right.
Photograph depicts weighing track in Cranbrook. Presumably, locomotives took the track on the left side, while cars used the weigh track on the right side.
Photograph depicts a brick roundhouse of 5 or 6 stalls that were used for stores and non-locomotive activities.
Photograph depicts a Pacific Wilderness Railway caboose after its first season's work that went from June to September. Davies noted the "reproting abbreviation" had been changed from OHCR to PAW. A company decal was also applied.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of track trollies in British Columbia.
Photograph taken at a railway museum in Midway. Visible is an abandoned CPR gang car made by Fairmont Railway Motors Ltd/Inc, Ontario.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of manual maintenance of way vehicles in British Columbia.
Photograph depicts the CNR depot in downtown Kamloops. Taken after it its refurbishment and landscaping.
Photograph depicts a CN bridge crossing over the Fraser River. Details of the draw span captured.
Photograph depicts a print taken fron a slide supplied by a professional photographer, Al Harvey. Captures a CN bridge crossing over the Fraser River.
File consists of photocopied Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway (E&N) timetables. Includes time table 17 (6 Aug. 1914); time table 20 (16 May 1920); time table 6 (28 Apr. 1963); and a public time table (24 Sept. 1950).
Photograph depicts the CNR depot in downtown Kamloops. Taken after it its refurbishment and landscaping.
Photograph depicts a CPR spur leading into a lumber reload facility in Campbell Creek, east of Kamloops.
Photograph depicts a CN bridge crossing over the Fraser River.
Photograph depicts a CN bridge crossing over the Fraser River.
File consists of a book by Graeme Pole entitled "The Spiral Tunnels and the Big Hill: A Canadian Railway Adventure".