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Photograph depicts parked construction train equipment that included an old tank car that used to hold diesel fuel.

Photo depics the CNR Kamloops Junction.

Photograph depicts the Vancouver to Armstrong section of the CN Okanagan Branch. Taken at O'Keefe, a former station site. Visible is a rail car deliverer.

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 depicts the CNR Kamloops Junction.

Photograph depicts a ballast packing machine found at the CN Kamloops Junction.

Photograph depicts a northward view of the east side of the CN yards at the Kamloops Junction.

Photograph depicts a CN plow built in June 1939 and rated "Heavy Duty." At the time, CN had 63 snow plows and this was one of the 12th to 18th youngest. The latest was built in 1959.

Photograph depicts a flat car wheel set carrier not related to Kamloops Auxiliary Trains.

Photograph depicts a CN Track Geometry 'Test" car for Western Canada. Built in 1954 as "Cape Race." In 1983 it was a VIA sleeper/buffet/lounge.

Photograph depicts a CN Track Geometry 'Test" car for Western Canada. Built in 1954 as "Cape Race." In 1983 it was a VIA sleeper/buffet/lounge.

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 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.