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2013.6.36.1.093.08 · Item · Aug. 1995
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

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.

Former CN turntable pit
2013.6.36.1.095.03 · Item · Oct. 1995
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a former turntable pit that was pictured immediately after the table was removed. The pit was later filled in with dirt/gravel. R.H. track wioth 2 locomotives was made into a running line. L.H. track that had a switcher was made into a dead-end spur.

CN crane 50397
2013.6.36.1.096.02 · Item · Oct. 1995
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a crane that had just finished loading a flat car, minus its trucks, onto a road vehicle. It was going to be used on a logging bridge.

CN caboose
2013.6.36.1.102.18 · Item · [3 June 1989]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts train master Al Wingrave in a caboose stationed at the Kamloops Junction. Undergoing speed checks on the Clearwater Subdivision.

CPR spur
2013.6.36.1.104.07 · Item · Mar. 1999
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a CPR spur leading into a lumber reload facility in Campbell Creek, east of Kamloops.

CPR Kamloops snow plows
2013.6.36.1.104.10 · Item · [June 1997]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts one of the two snow plows that had arrived in January from the northbend and stayed until May. CPR # 401035 built in 1952. It was the 6th last snow plow built for the CPR (majority were built in 1920's).

2013.6.36.1.104.17 · Item · [13 May 2004]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts westbound freight undergoing a crew change. The second and third locomotives were brand new "Alaska Railways." Presumed to be delivered to Alaska, but the engineer Davies spoke to said that they were on lease to the CPR.

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
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.

CPR snow plow
2013.6.36.1.109.16 · Item · [15 Dec. 2000]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

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.