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Photograph depicts BCR southbound freight.

Photograph depicts ballast car #3013.

Photograph depicts the a weighbridge, just to the north of the city centre of Abbotsford.

Photograph depicts one of six former sub-stations of the BC Electric Railway's 64 mile interurban railway between New Westminster and Chilliwack. It opened in 1910, but was closed in the 1950's due to electric traction. The interior had been vandalized, but the building (made out of concrete) was so well built that the structure itself was quite sound.

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 taken looking westward, down Johnston Street from the Granville Bridge. Davies notes minimal clearance on the left side of the track.

Photograph taken looking eastward, down Johnston Street.

Photograph taken looking eastward on Johnston Street.

Photograph depicts the northwest part of Granville Island, taken from the Granville bridge. A spur was covered with parked cars.

Photograph taken near downtown Vancouver. Image captured the south side, just east of the centre line.

Photograph depicts an unused spur leading southward to Morrison Steel and Wire Company Ltd. The spur crosses a disused line running on the south side of Cartwright Street.

Photograph taken looking southward under the arches of Granville Bridge along the rail road entry as well as exit to the Island.

Photograph taken looking westward along Johnston Street.

Photograph taken on the southwest side of Granville Island. After 2 years of hassle with owner Clay, Davies notes, the city of Vancouver purchased his property so as to re-develop the whole area as part of the False Creek clean up. There was opposition coming from moorage renters.

Photograph depicts BCER freight switching on the Island's trackage with B.C. locomotive #901 and tank car, property of Union Tank Car Company, built in 1926. Image captured directly underneath Granville Bridge.

Photograph taken on Cartwright Street, looking eastward. Track to the right is unusable because the switch towards the right is blocked over.

Photograph taken looking westward, down Cartwright Street. Trackage seen was not usable. Switch was blacktopped into position. The far end of the spur was used to lead to Columbia Bitolithic Ltd. Unseen track on the right side of the road was still in use.

Photograph taken looking southeast at the trackage underneath Granville Bridge.

Photograph depicts the passing loop and goods shed found at the Milner Siding. The main line had just been uprgaded to take coal units trains to Roberts Bank.

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 steam crane with a jib in a gondola car. It is en route to an iron works in Burnaby.

Photograph depicts a BCER rail bridge at the entrance to False Creek, Vancouver.

Photograph depicts old BC Electric Railway interurbans purchased for restoration by the government of BC from an Oregon owner. They stood in the CPR Duke Street Yards in Vancouver.

Photograph depicts Beach Ave. in Vancouver, with the photo taken near the swimming pool and looking west. Photo was taken after a storm.

Photograph depicts a bear at the garbage dump of the Gold River logging camp. Five other bears have retreated to the fire weed and blackened tree stumps.

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.

Photograph depicts the Beaverdell Bridge, located between Rock Creek and Kelowna, BC

Photograph depicts the CPR Beaverdell depot located at about 35 miles northeast of Osoyoos and at mile 91.4 east of Penticton on the Carmi Subdivision. The traffic here is ore from a local mine, some lumber, and freight for the village. The depot building is in use and has a telegraph. There is also siding capacity for 31 cars. This section was built between 1914 and 1915. The view is looking north.

Photograph depicts the CPR depot at Beaverdell, located at about mile 42.3 on the Carmi Subdivision. To the right is an ore loader for concentrate from mines. There is no rail traffic at this date. The view is looking north.

Photograph depicts a beehive burner at Brownsville Sawmills Ltd. On Olson St. in south Westminster, Surrey. It is on the banks of the Fraser River just below the Patullo Bridge.

Photograph depicts the downtown area in which prior to 1998, the CNR had a loop. It ran west beside Clement and after crossing over Ellis, turned north for a couple of blocks, then turned east, back over Ellis, and along Recreation Street and Weddell.

Photograph depicts the downtown area in which prior to 1998, the CNR had a loop. It ran west beside Clement and after crossing over Ellis, turned north for a couple of blocks, then turned east, back over Ellis, and along Recreation Street and Weddell.

Photograph depicts Belmont Park Fort on the west side of Esquimalt Harbour. It was built by the British Royal Engineers in 1895 to protect the naval base. Photo shows the lower fort with 2 gun emplacements.

Photograph depicts the entrance to the magazine feeding gun emplacement in the lower fort of Belmont Park Fort in Esquimalt Harbour.

Photograph depicts one of the 2 gun emplacements in the lower fort of Belmont Park Fort protecting Esquimalt Harbour.

Photograph depicts the one and only gun emplacement in the upper fort of Belmont Park Fort protecting Esquimalt Harbour.

Photograph depicts the Big Bar Creek ferry crossing over the Fraser River.

Photograph depicts the only biplane and canavas covered, light aircraft amongst a group of 25 machines in excellent condition.

Photograph depicts Birch Island Bridge over the North Thompson River.

Photograph depicts Birch Island Bridge over the North Thompson River.

Photograph depicts Birken Station on the Pacific Great Eastern. It is 113.6 miles from North Vancouver and at an altitude for 1575 ft. The view is looking north.

Photograph depicts a boathouse at an unknown location.

Photograph depicts a replica of the a Boeing, the first ever plane built by Boeings in 1916 in Seattle and was called the "B and W Seaplane."

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 narrow gauge contractor's locomotive boiler owned by Mr. Shane Sherman of Lake Shore Road, Savona. It was built by H.K. Porter as boiler #1451 B on August 18, 1912.

Photograph depicts bollards for erection in new sea wall, to make outer face of the deep sea wharf being constructed at Dunlevey St. in Vancouver, B.C.

Photograph depicts booming ground at an unkown location.

Photograph depicts a booster telegraph relay station at Carmi. Carmi is located at mile 46.6 on the CPR line on the Carmi Subdivision. This is the only surviving telegraph pole between Penticton and Beaverdell. The view is looking east.