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2013.6.36.1.089.29 · Item · [May 1992]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

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.

2013.6.36.1.092.03 · Item · 1 Mar. 1991
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

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.

2013.6.36.1.092.11 · Item · 1 Mar. 1991
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

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.

CPR caboose
2013.6.36.1.102.12 · Item · Sept. 1991
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the body of a slightly damaged CPR caboose sitting on a gondola. Damaged as a result of an accident in the Kamloops yard, which is where the photograph was taken. Caboose was on its way to Calgary.

CPR caboose
2013.6.36.1.104.03 · Item · Sept. 1991
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a CPR caboose sitting in a gondola in the Kamloops yard after being rammed in a switching accident. Another caboose is visible. Both cabooses were still used for local freights, ballast trains, etc.

CPR caboose
2013.6.36.1.104.04 · Item · Sept. 1991
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a damaged caboose body sitting in a gondola car. Damaged as a result of an accident in the Kamloops yard, where the photograph was taken.

Former roundhouse
2013.6.36.1.094.06 · Item · Apr. 1991
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a CN roundhouse that was built in 1929 at the Kamloops Junction. It was demolished in November, 1993. The prime reason for its demolition was not wanting to pay local taxes on a building rarely used for anything except for motor vehicles, general temporary storage, etc.

CPR caboose
2013.6.36.1.102.23 · Item · Sept. 1991
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a damaged CPR caboose body sitting on a gondola. Damaged as a result of an accident in the Kamloops yard, the location fo the photo.

CPR caboose
2013.6.36.1.104.05 · Item · Sept. 1991
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a slightly damaged CPR caboose sitting in a gondola. Damaged as a result of an accident in August at the Kamloops yard. It was on its way to Calgary.

2020.4.6.297 · File · 1991
Part of G. Gary Runka fonds

File consists of records created and accumulated by Gary Runka over the course of his consultancy work for BC Ministry of Development, Trade and Tourism for the "Natural Resource Tourism Inventory" project in Kamloops. This file was numbered as G.G. Runka Land Sense Ltd. client file #297; that client number may be seen referenced elsewhere in the G. Gary Runka fonds. The Land Sense Ltd. client files generally include records such as correspondence, contracts, invoices, project reports, publications, ephemera, memoranda, maps or map excerpts, legal documents, meeting materials, clippings, and handwritten notes. File also includes 47 accompanying photographs.

Maps include:

  • G.G. Runka Land Sense Ltd., "Natural Resource Tourism, Kamloops Resource Management Area - Tourism Capability Map", Sept. 1991
  • G.G. Runka Land Sense Ltd., "Natural Resource Tourism, Kamloops Resource Management Area - Visual Resource Significance", Sept. 1991
  • Reproduction of BC Ministry of Forests, "Map of Rec. Proj. 900-1-3-4716 (Chuwhels Mtn Trails), June 1967
CPR wreck crane
2013.6.36.1.109.02 · Item · [3 Apr. 1990]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a CPR wreck crane stationed in Kamloops. It had just come from a crash site about 7 miles south from a hauling hopper car on a makeshift set up. Nearest set of tracks belonged to the car and were properly placed. Rear set of bogies were taken from the wreck site and the end of the wrecked car was placed on them.

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.