Photograph taken at the west end of Johnston Street at the plant of Arrow Transfer Company Ltd.
Photograph taken looking southwest at the Granville Island to the mainland connection.
Photograph taken looking eastward, down a service rail track way, from Granville Bridge.
Photograph depicts a train about to return to New Westminster. The train consisted of 3 locomotives, 2 idling switchers, and 58 cars.
Photograph depicts an interlocked grade crossing with the CPR at Clayburn. Eastbound freight had stopped as required and was proceeding across.
Photograph taken at the east end of the BC Hydro Railway yards in Queensborough, looking north east from the bridge in New Westminster.
Photograph taken at the overpass bridge on the BC Hydro Railway, close to the intersection of County Line Road and Howell or 64th Avenue.
Photograph depicts former BC Electric car barns in New Westminster. In the foreground remained an old flat and possibly a hoist for battery plates.
Photograph depicts a CPR unit coal train travelling eastward at the Livingstone Road grade crossing, near the freeway and with half of the train already on the CNR connector. This connects the main line of BC Hydro Railway with the CNR main line (known as the Rawlison Subdivision CNR).
Photograph depicts a CPR unit coal train travelling empty and eastwards. Taken at the Livingstone Road grade crossing, near Freeway 401.
Photograph depicts a westbound way freight switching at the Matsqui Industrial Centre on the north side of Abbotsford. Train consisted of BC Hydro Railway locomotives and 25 box cars.
Photograph depicts locomotives of the BC Hydro Railway.
Photograph depicts Great Northern Railway freight heading south having just come off of the New Westminster government rail bridge.
Photograph depicts disused, but perhaps not legally abandoned, track 2 miles south of Keremeos on the old Keremeos branch. The track was broken in several places and fences were also erected across its length.
Photograph depicts the Great Northern Railway station in main street Vancouver. Image captured looking west with the CNR trackage to the left. Lifted track in the foreground used to be depot track. Visible are switchers and a sand car found behind them.
Photograph depicts locomotive #1077 built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1923. It was the road engine for log traffic to Ladysmith and had been left on a spur, isolated by three breaks in the tracks. It had been out of service, as had all MacMillan Bloedel traffic, for at least 12 months.
Photograph depicts ballast car #175 built by Western Wheeled Scraper Company, Aurora, Illinois.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of a Canadian Forest Products logging railway in the Nimpkish Valley in British Columbia.
Photograph depicts locomotive #4804 at the Beaver Cove terminal. Locomotive stood on a realigned track about a qaurter of a mile from the wharf.
Photograph taken at Beaver Cove. Image captures part of a log train that had arrived at the terminal and was waiting to be dumped into the sea. Log car #606 was built in December 1922.
Photograph taken above Nimpkish Lake. Believed to be located on mile 14. Rails in this section were "1918-Colorado."
Photograph taken between the Nimpkish and Woss Camps. Visible is a string of log cars awaiting haulage to the tide water at Beaver Cove.
Photograph taken at Vernon Camp on mile 5. The main line ran south, with tank car #54 standing on a spur.
Photograph depicts the approach to the upper terminal on mile 62. Railway and logging road, which is open to the public, share the same bridge. This happens at two points along the line.
Photograph depicts a former CPR grade of Copper Mountain. A spur at an Allenby concentrator was located on mile 5.6 from Princeton. Ore was first hauled on the track in October, 1920 as grading commeced in April, 1918. Track appeared to be in position, but little was it used unil 1956/1957, but then it was lifted.
Photograph depicts a compressed air operated locomotive frame and H.K. Porter boiler, built in 1912. It was believed that the locomotive frame came from the Canmore coal mines.
Photograph depicts a compressed air operated locomotive frame that had unequal sized cylinders (high and low pressure) and was believed to have come from the Canmore coal mines.
Photograph depicts the Western Bridge Division on 1st Avenue, Vancouver. Visible is internal trackage and a rail/road tractor.
Photograph depicts a steam crane with a jib in a gondola car. It is en route to an iron works in Burnaby.
Photograph depicts the details of a mine electric locomotive.
Photograph depicts a mining equipment depot of the Nelson Machinery Company in Savona.
Photograph depicts a primitive tram with external flonges and a swivel support for a tub that was found amongst the debris near the blacksmiths shop in Barkerville.
Photograph depicts 40 miles of trackage, of which 90% was located underground. It was owned by the Cominco Mine Railway of the private Sullivan Mine. The surface main line ran from the portal of the mine to a concentrator.
Photograph depicts the surface main line of the Cominco Mine Railway of the private Sullivan Mine. The line ran from the mine's portal to a concentrator. Visible locomotives dated from 1923 to 1952.
Photograph depicts a railway that was used to haul fire clay from a horizontal drift mine. The track on the left-hand side, behind the camera, led to a garage type of structure that held dismantled battery operated electric locomotives made by General Electric.
Photograph depicts what was believed to be locomotive #3 that was built by Jeffrey and was found on the main yard line.
Photograph depicts locomotive #1 that was used as an ore bin switcher.
Photograph depicts a derelict mine electric railway. Some equipment that was auctioned in August 1975 included locomotive #4, a trolley, and 10 bottom dump hopper cars that were used to carry crushed ore.
Photograph depicts a railway workshop and car yard, west of the main portal of the main line in Britannia Beach. Locomotive #5 is visible.
Photograph depicts a view of the town site of Britannia Beach from a copper ore bin, above the concentrator.
Photograph depicts a concentrator mill. The mine was closed for good on November 1, 1974. An auction of all residual equipment took place in August 1975. B.C. Museum of Mining is located mid-right of the photo.
Photograph depicts a derelict mine electric railway. Some equipment was auctioned in August, 1975 after the mines closure on November 1, 1974. Visible is a man car (also called a trip car or a jitney).
Photograph depicts a mule trolley locomotive, formerly Anaconda Britannia Mines Ltd. #1. It was owned by a demolition contractor.
Photograph depicts locomotive #6, built by General Electric. It used to carry 12 people half a mile into the mountain of the Britannia Copper Mine.
Photograph depicts the access point, which is via this portal, from the yard to the main haulage tunnel at the Britannia Copper Mine.
Photograph depicts a derelict mine electric railway. Visible is auctioned equipment awaiting removal. Equipment included an 18 ton, locomotive #4, and ten hopper cars. Anaconda Britannia Mine had closed on November 1, 1974.
Photograph depicts the general view of the yards of the Anaconda Britannia Mine. Visible is the main portal and the top of ore bins. Images displays railway shops at the rear, with locomotive #4 and powder car found in the middle distance.
Photograph depicts a derelict mine electric railway . Visible is one of four surviving large flat cars at the Anaconda Britannia Mine. It was sold at the auction that was held in August, 1975 after the mine was closed on November 1, 1974.
Photograph depicts a view of some of the auctioned mine railway equipment in the yards of the Anaconda Britannia Mine. Visible on the left are repair shops and dump ore cars. On the left are flat cars including one with pole support used to depoit graphite grease on an overhead copper cable.
Photograph depicts a CNR slip of the northern arm of the Fraser River, Lulu Island. Visible is a 9 car barge that porvided shuttle services to the two plywood mills on the opposite shore of the river.