Photograph depicts a CN swing bridge (built in 1927) over the South Thompson River. It was opened for tourist sternwheeler "Wandasue."
Photograph depicts the CNR depot in downtown Kamloops. Taken after it its refurbishment and landscaping.
Photograph depicts the CNR depot in downtown Kamloops. Taken after it its refurbishment and landscaping.
Photograph depicts a spur to cattle market. A Kamloops switcher of the Kelowna Pacific Railway, painted in blue, sat in the background in its normal parking position.
Photograph taken on the CNR Okanagan Branch, Mile 21, east of a tunnel near Monte Creek. Dated 1938. Captured at the base of a deep embankment that may have resulted from a washout.
Photograph taken at the CN Kamloops Junction on a storage line.
Photograph depicts part of a ballast removal and cleaning special train at the CN Kamloops Junction.
Photograph depicts a Lafarge cement loading spur.
Photograph depicts a Lafarge cement loading spur.
Photograph taken at the Campbell Creek Industrial Park in Kamloops. Depicts the CNR end of head shunt. The connection with the Okanagan Branch is found in the middle distance.
The building of this spur in 1977 was a late and short lived attempt to move yearling cattle to Ontario for fattening by rail. The Last stock train ran in 1985. The CN rail track was still in use in August 1998. This photograph shows the spur running east and down grade to a stockyard owned by BC Interior Cattlemen's Association. Additional information is available in article, "Moving Livestock by Rail: An inquiry into an extinct traffic" in The Sandhouse journal, Issue 121, Spring 2006.
Photograph depicts an old box car that had a vintage CNR logo. Found at the CN Kamloops Junction.
Photograph taken at the Campbell Creek Industrial Park in Kamloops. Visible CNR track was to be inactive by August 1998.
Photograph depicts a part of a group of 4 scaling testing cars found in the Kamloops CPR yard.
Photograph depicts a set of 4 scale testing cars, consisting of 2 sealed tank cars and 2 special purpose-made cars, one of which was 4-wheeled. Found at the CPR Kamloops yard.
Photograph depicts one of the 4 cars in a scale testing group found at the Kamloops CPR yard.
Photograph depicts a tank 'Scale Test Car' at the Kamloops CPR yard.
Photograph depicts a 4 wheeler vintage 'Scale test Car," built in June 1919. Found in the CPR Kamloops yard.
Photograph depicts 2 cars of the group of 4 car 'Scale Test Unit" at the CPR Kamloops yards.
Photograph depicts an existing girder bridge, in use since 1962. A new concrete bridge was being built on the left.
Photograph depicts a replacement rail bridge. Forms sat on a temporary pile of dirt, which in turns sat on a road bed of a new highway that had just been cut.
Photograph depicts an old girder bridge.
Photograph depicts a new concrete bridge being constructed. The old one is one the right.
Photograph depicts a new CN overpass in Campbell Creek. Looking at new eastbound lane of the Trans Canada Highway. It was all paid for by the Provincial Department of Highways in order to convert the 2 lanes into 4 in order to improve visibility and stretch the highway.
Photograph depicts a new bridge on the CNR Okanagan Branch. The old steel bridge on the right had been dismantled.
Photograph depicts a new CN overpass in Campbell Creek. The new part of the Trans-Canada Highway beneath it had yet to be paved.
Photograph depicts a new CN overpass in Campbell Creek. The grade crossing at the newly created service/business road was built on the south side of a road/rail complex.
Photograph depicts a wreck train in Kamloops.
Photograph depicts a wreck train in Kamloops. Urea pellets were sucked out by a road tanker and then sold to Purity Feeds Ltd.
Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops. It was an 80 car hopper train carrying urea fertilizer. It derailed 28 cars and most were severely damaged. Ripped up 200 meteres of the track.
Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops. Cars were being pushed onto side pieces near the right-of-way.
Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops.
Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops. Car #57630 found in the foreground and crane idler #58113 is next to it.
Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops. Captures a close-up of CN crane #50397, built in 1957.
Photograph depicts a hopper being dragged along a ditch/temporary road to the east end of the Brockelhurst derailment pile-up. It was to be hoisted onto a gondola car.
Photograph depicts the back end of a wreck train that had 2 ballast cars which are loaded with smaller pieces like wheelsm trucks, track bits, etc.
Photograph depicts wheel sets being loaded into ballast cars.
Photograph depicts how wrecked cars were removed from the Brockelhurst derailment site using a CN rail crane and a rented Sterling Crane Co. crane, which was set up right beside the track. Here, the car was lifted from the side of the track and positioned above the rail track.
Photograph depicts the wrecked car being wedged into a gondola which was then drawn away and taken to the Junction yards and parked. The second switcher propels another gondola rapdily into position.
Photograph depicts a switcher pushing an empty gondola car into position under a suspended wreck car.
Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops. A wrecked car was being lifted high above the track.
Photograph depicts a CNR spur adjacent to the South Thompson River and at the northwest end of Red Bridge. Northwest Metal Recycling Ltd., Indian Reserve used the spot to load gondola cars with steel scraps.
Photograph depicts Pounder Emulsions Ltd. which received bitumens and distributed them to blacktop plants from April till October.
Photograph depicts a spur located next to Pounder Emulsions Ltd. Electric capstan (Jeffrey Electric Co, Montreal) used to move full and empty tank cars of bitumen (for blacktops). Did not appear to be used.
Photograph depicts tanks cars loaded with bitumen, used for blacktopping, found outisde Pounder Emulsions Ltd.
Photograph depicts the Superior Propane Ltd. tank yard behind Wilkinson Steel Ltd.
Photograph depicts details of a CN derailment that occurred in Kamloops.
Photograph depicts Wilkinson Steel Ltd. The spur was serviced by CN. Visible is an empty bulkhead car that had recently been brought in for its steel.
Photograph depicts Beaver Trucking located on Kamloops Indian Reserve No. 1 on Tk'emlups te Secwepemc territory, Kamloops, BC. It had been a company since 1990 and received 2 or 3 boxcars weekly loaded with items from Toronto that were then delivered around town. Davies later noted that the business was destroyed by arson in 1997.
Photograph depicts the end of original 1916/17 trackage of the CNR in Kamloops. Track between a bitumen tank farm and a bridge that was not in use between about 1985 and 1995. In 1996, scrap metal was slowly piled beisde the trackside. 2-4 gondola's were visibly filled.