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2013.6.17.5 · File · 2007-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of research material regarding accidents on bridges and trestles, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on accidents at Surprise Creek bridge, Lytton bridge, Cisco bridge, and a Cheakamus River bridge near Squamish.

2013.6.17.4 · File · 2007-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of research material regarding accidents resulting from human causes, runaways, and collisions, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on specific events, such as the CPR runaway on Field Hill in 1996, the CNR collision at Canoe River in 1950, the CPR Farron Hill incident of 1909, and the CNR runaway at Kelly Lake Hill in 2006, among others.

2013.6.17.7 · File · 2010-2013
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of research material regarding trespassing, theft, and vandalism and accidents associated with those activities. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.

2013.6.15.11 · File · 1975
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

File consists of an original "Agreement between the British Columbia Railway Company and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Cariboo Lodge No. 221, Lillooet Lodge No. 215 and Summit Lodge No. 252 Governing the Working Conditions and Compensation of Employees Employed on the British Columbia Railway Company, Revision 1975".

2013.6.36.1.136.08 · Item · Sept. 2001
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific Railway locomotive running around its train at the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard in Port Alberni. Track on the right led to the former Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway roundhouse and maintenance facilities that were now used by Alberni Pacific to house its locomotives.

2013.6.36.1.136.15 · Item · [19 May 2007]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific Railway locomotive built in 1929 by Baldwin. After at least four years of restoration, it commenced running in 2001. It was spotted outside of a locomotive shed in Port Alberni.

2013.6.36.1.144.04 · Item · Sept. 2001
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a locomotive shed and maintenance facility of Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway at the branch terminal in Port Alberni. It was now used by the tourist "Alberni Pacifica Railway." CPR locomotive #8427 found in foreground.

2013.6.36.1.136.09 · Item · Sept. 2001
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a tank locomotive of the Alberni Pacific Railway backing onto its train atr the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard in Port Alberni. On the rear left were the premises of a paper mill owne dby Pacifica Papers, virtually the only used of rail services in the city. It had a sufficient volume in order to warrant having its own switcher (daily freight to Nanaimo of 40 cars). Davies notes his disbelief in late 2001 when it was stated that all freight traffic on Vancouver Island would cease on Mar. 5, 2002.

2013.6.36.1.136.03 · Item · Sept. 2001
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific tourist railway locomotive. The railway ran from Port Alberni to the McLean steam sawmill on Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway trackage as well as a newly built spur to the mill, which opened in 1927 and closed in 1956.

2013.6.36.1.136.02 · Item · Sept. 2001
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific tourist railway saddle tank locomotive. It was built in 1929 by Baldwin and acquired by Alberni Pacififc Lumber Ltd. in 1941. Then it was leased out in 1951, acquired by Crown Forest Products, Ladysmith in 1973, and sold to the BC government in 1977.

2013.6.36.1.136.05 · Item · Sept. 2001
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the former Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway station in Port Alberni. A returning tourist train is also visible. The station opened on December 20, 1911 and was closed to passengers in 1957. It was used for truck and rail freight until 1988, and then officially closed. The city of Port Alberni purchased it in 1990 and restored it to its original condition.

2013.6.36.1.136.16 · Item · [19 May 2007]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a train commencing its trip in its yard, not at the station, in Port Alberni. Locomotive at the lower/city end (ie formation at the end of the last trip). It, at the time, needed to get to the head-end, so it took the siding.

2013.6.36.1.136.14 · Item · [19 May 2007]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the Pacific Rails Convention of Victoria on a field trip to Port Alberni. Travelling on the Alberni Pacific Railway to visit a steam-driven sawmill at its outer terminal. Chartered trip for convention members (one coach/bus load) as the line was not yet open for the tourist season.

2013.6.36.1.136.20 · Item · [19 May 2007]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific Railway train travelling on Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway track, not used since 2002 and was now at the beginning of a connecting spur to a steam sawmill museum. It was built in 2000, but commenced in the 2001 summer season.

2013.6.36.1.001.71 · Item · Oct. 1965
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the Alexandra Bridge in the Fraser Canyon. It is closed to traffic but is possible to drive a vehicle across but the road is blocked on the east bank. The bridge is in good condition. Photo looks east.

2013.6.36.1.001.72 · Item · Oct. 1965
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the Alexandra Bridge in the Fraser Canyon. The view is looking northeast and depicts the Fraser River running downstream to the right of the photo. There is First Nations salmon net pole in the bottom left-hand corner.

2013.6.36.1.053.03 · Item · [July 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photo depict a disused concentrator of the Granby Mining Company Ltd. Located 5 miles southwest of Princeton and 8 miles east of Copper Mountain ore workings, which are also largely disused. The building of the concentrator commenced in 1917 and the first ore was reduced in October, 1920. Ore cars from workings via the CPR spur entered the snow shed that is visible on the left. Rail track was lifted in 1957.

Along Thomspon River
2013.6.36.3.08.05 · Item · [after 1949]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Postcard depicts an area along the Thompson River, towards the Fraser Canyon. Looking left, downstream. Westbound CPR freight is visible. Short train by any standards in the 1980s and 1990s.