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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.

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.

New CN overpass
2013.6.36.1.091.08 · Item · Sept. 1998
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

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.

New CN overpass
2013.6.36.1.091.07 · Item · Sept. 1998
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a new CN overpass in Campbell Creek. The new part of the Trans-Canada Highway beneath it had yet to be paved.

New CN overpass
2013.6.36.1.091.05 · Item · Sept. 1998
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

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.

Replacement rail bridge
2013.6.36.1.091.02 · Item · Sept. 1998
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

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.

Group of scale testing cars
2013.6.36.1.090.02 · Item · 4 Sept. 1996
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

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.