Postcard depicts Morant's Curve which was the most famous photograph location on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Here it was seeen with the Bow Range on the Continental Divide in the background.
Photograph depicts a ballast packing machine found at the CN Kamloops Junction.
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 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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Photograph taken at a railway museum in Midway. Visible is an abandoned CPR gang car made by Fairmont Railway Motors Ltd/Inc, Ontario.
Photograph depicts a hand car owned by the Kettle Valley Steam Railway. Behind it was a Woodings inspection car.
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 CN bridge crossing over the Fraser River.
Photograph depicts a print taken fron a slide supplied by a professional photographer, Al Harvey. Captures a CN bridge crossing over the Fraser River.
Postcard depicts "Canadian Pacific's all Stainless Stel Scenic Dome Streamliner-"The Canadian"-in the Canadian Rockies."
Postcard depicts a CPR train en route through the Canadian Rockies, which the postcard deemed to be "The Switzerland of America."
Postcard depicts the Revelstoke Railway Museum. "Take a run down the track of Canadian History at the Revelstoke Railway Museum, located in the beautiful Columbia Valley. Museum exhibits trace the pople and events involved in the development of the CPR. Highlights include Steam Locomotive 5468 and a unique gift shop."
Postcard depicts the "general view of the town facing west with the railway station in the foreground. Revelstoke became a divisional centre of the railway in 1889 and has increased in importance with the growth of the railway and the Trans-Canada Highway."
Postcard depicts a view of the west-bound VIA Rail passenger train passing the Craigellachie Last Spike monument.
Postcard depicts the Kamloops CPR depot and gardens.
Postcard depicts a "quartet pf GP9 locomotives headed by 8621 skirts Kamloops Lake, BCwith a merchandise freight. A beautiful day in 1965."
Postcard depicts "VIA Rail Canada Nos. 6456 and 6454 hauling Train No. 1, "The Canadian" between Spences Bridge and Drynoch, British Columbia, on Canadian Pacific's Thompson Subdivision, having been delayed by the need to detour, from its usual route, on Canadian National's Ashcroft Subdivision, seen here across the Thompson River. May 14, 1993."