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Photograph depicts the CPR line at Revelstoke. It shows the termination of a spur running southwest through the city for about 1/2 mile from the main line to the cliff edge, below which runs the Columbia River. It may originally have been built to service the original town of Revelstoke which lay below, close to the sternwheeler's landing.

Photograph depicts the Mission City CPR depot located at mile 87.3 from North Bend in Cascade Substation. It was built in 1902 and add onto in 1909. It has living quarters on the 2nd floor that are still in use, which is quite rare for BC in 1973.

Photograph depicts a CPR storehouse at Mission City. It was marked as "Petroleum Store" but in fact was holding speeders and miscellaneous track equipment. It was sited on the north side of the track at the extreme east end of the depot platform.

Photograph depicts the CPR depot at Salmon Arm. It is occupied and in use. The view is looking east.

Photograph depicts a tank car being pumped on the north side of the main line track, about 1/4 mile west of the Salmon Arm CPR depot. The view is looking east.

Photograph depicts old CPR boxcar #42018 at Savona, on the west end of Kamloops Lake. It was built in July 1922 and is now in work service. It has steel ends and frame but wooden sides.

Photograph depicts old CPR passenger car at Salmon Arm. The car is now in work service as #41645 and is used for storage.

Photograph depicts an old wooden CPR caboose, formerly #436919, at Kamloops. It was built in 1928 and has sat unmoved for 2 or 3 years. By 1981 it had disappeared.

Photograph depicts a lumber mill for Evans Wood Products Ltd. In Savona. It shows filling chip cars that are taken to Weyerhaeuser Pulp Mill in Kamloops, 25 miles to the east. And loading, the cars run down grade to the spur end. The total capacity of the spur is about 6 cars.

Photograph depicts the CPR at the Huntingdon/Sumas border (BC/Washington State border). A Mission way freight train is standing at about 5 pm, ready to return to Mission. The photo shows CP caboose #436733, built in 1920 out of wood. The border is about 10 ft. behind the camera.

Photograph depicts the joint CPR and CN depot at Vernon. The depot office had three employees working inside. Vernon is at mile 46.2 from Sicamous, on the Okanagan Subdivision of the CPR. It has daily way freight.

Photograph depicts the CPR depot at Armstrong. It is located about mile 32 from Sicamous on the Okanagan Subdivision. The view is looking south.

Photograph depicts the CPR line near Merritt. The way freight from Spences Bridge to Merritt is about 1 west of Dot, which is mile 20.3 from Spences Bridge. It is a 20 car train. The view is looking east.

Photograph depicts the end of the CPR Nicola Branch line. In 1956 the timetable read, "Nicola spur is included in the Merritt Yard Limits." The view is looking east.

Photograph depicts the CPR Nicola branch line at Nicola, near Merritt. The end of the line is adjacent to 2 fir tree at the right edge of the photo. The photo was taken adjacent to the stock yard with a view looking east.

Photograph depicts the derelict CPR depot at Hope, part of the former Kettle Valley line. A spur of about 3 miles still exists between the Odlum junction with the main line on the north side of the Fraser River and this depot, and continues southeast to a point near the CNR. It is not abandoned, but little used. The Hope yard has a 47 car capacity.

Photograph depicts the interior of a snow shed at about mile 29.0 using CPR mileages commencing at Brookmere, which is 4 miles east of Brookmere. It is on the ex CPR Coquihalla Line from Hope to Brodie Junction.

Photograph depicts the former CPR Coquihalla to Brookmere rail line. It shows a former rail tunnel at about 15 miles northeast of Hope. The view is looking northeast.

Photograph depicts the remains of show sheds on the ex CPR Coquihalla Line on the Kettle Valley Railway. They are in the vicinity of the Romeo depot, at about mile 23 or 24 from Brookmere.

Photograph depicts the an abandoned steel trestle with the mid span missing about 15 miles northeast of Hope. It was part of the former CPR Coquihalla to Brookmere rail line.

Photograph depicts Brodie Junction on the CPR Spences Bridge to Princeton line, located at mile 65.2 from Spences Bridge. The former northbound connector of the Coquihalla line (Hope to Brodie) is in the right foreground but it's not a dead-end spur of 200 yards in length. The mainline makes an 180 degree loop at this point. The tracks in the left rear of the photo lead to Merritt. The elevation is 3025 ft.

Photograph depicts the CPR rail line with an overhead road bridge at Hope. The Kettle Valley Railway track leads to the CPR mainline.

Photograph depicts the CPR line at Brookmere, 30 miles south of Merritt (now mile 108.7 on the Princeton Subdivision). Summit point is at 3200 ft. between Spences Bridge, Hope, and Princeton. The Kettle Valley Railway carved out a railway town in the wilderness in 1914/1915 to hold about 300 people. The men were train crews and track a gangs, particularly for the troublesome Coquihalla route. The photo includes the boarded up depot and the view is looking north.

Photograph depicts an abandoned water tower on CPR line at Brookmere, 30 miles south of Merritt. The trackage on the right has had the spikes removed but the yard consists of a mixture of completely removed, partially removed, and completely undisturbed track. An elderly couple and 2 elderly bachelors are the only year-round remaining inhabitants.

Photograph depicts the ex CPR Glenwalker station on the Merritt Subdivision. It is located at mile 49.2 from Spences Bridge and used to consist of a passing loop, spur, and section house. The sign is located in the yard of a ranch belonging to the Glenwalker Cattle Co. Ltd.

Photograph depicts the CPR line at about mile 50.5 from Spences Bridge, on the Merritt Subdivision. This point is south of Glenwalker and carries 3 freights per week. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday is northbound, and Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday is southbound. The view is looking north.

Photograph depicts a CPR work train at Princeton. It shows passenger car #411375, used as cook, dinner, and sleeper. It was built in May 1929. The LT weight is 178, 000.

Photograph depicts a trestle bridge on the old CPR Kettle Valley Railway. It is about 5 miles southeast of Brookmere, between Thalia and Spearing on the Princeton Subdivision.

Photograph depicts the CPR depot at Merritt. When the Spences Bridge to Merritt branch line was first built its principal traffic was coal taken from the mines on the south edge of the city. As late as 1923 Middlesborough Mine produced 75,862 tons/year.

Photograph depicts the CPR Kettle Valley Railway line at about mile 20 from Penticton, on the Princeton Subdivision. The view is looking east, downgrade.

Photograph depicts the CPR Kettle Valley Railway line at about mile 60.5 from Penticton on the Princeton Subdivision. The view is looking northeast and upgrade to the Jura passing loop, just out of sight to the right. The name board here advises the proximity of the siding. The CPR is replacing all the ties along this subdivision.

Photograph depicts the CPR Osoyoos station and the arrival of the daily (except Sunday) way freight train from Penticton. The depot is at about mile 36.1.

Photograph depicts the CPR line at Osoyoos, about 1 mile north of the depot. The daily freight from Penticton is on return, picking up 1 boxcar of fruit from the BC Tree Fruits Ltd and backing onto caboose. This is at approximately mile 35.4 from Penticton. The view is looking north.

Photograph depicts the CPR line at Osoyoos at the BC Tree Fruits Ltd. warehouse and spur. This is about 1 mile north of the depot. The daily freight train from Penticton is returning from Osoyoos, having just collected 1 boxcar of fruit, backing onto caboose. This is approximately at mile 35.4 from Penticton.

Photograph depicts the CPR Kettle Valley Railway line just south of the Glenfir passing loop, on the Carmi Subdivision. Location is at about mile 118.5 from Midway. The photo shows a Penticton bound freight train at 1pm on a Tuesday, which consisted of 2 locies, 1 boxcar, 4 tank cars and a caboose. There are about 2 freights a week here. Glenfir is at 2572 ft. above sea level and 1450 ft. above Penticton.

Photograph depicts the CPR line at about mile 70 on the Carmi Subdivision, and 2 miles west of McCulloch depot. This is at the summit of the line at about 4150 ft. The whistle sign is a rarity as all the signs and telegraph posts were removed. Warning fro an old gravel pit not used for 20 or 30 years. The view is looking west.

Photograph depicts Myra depot on the CPR Kettle Valley line. The depot is at mile 83.8 and is only 8 miles from Kelowna but 2800 ft. above it. Trevor Davies, aged 8 3/4, is in the foreground.

Photograph depicts the CPR Kettle Valley Railway in Myra Canyon. The view is looking south into the canyon at about mile 85.

Photograph depicts "Princess Marguerite" at the CPR wharf in the Inner Harbour of Victoria.

Photograph depicts a "Master" tug after it underwent restoration in False Creek, Vancouver. It was under steam, and entering English Bay.

Photograph depicts a clamshell dredge at work near a BCE Railway trestle. Its spurs were down, suggesting rip-rap dumping.

Photograph depicts "Island Tug #125," on the north arm of the Fraser River. Travelling downstrean from Patulla Bridge, New Westminster, and the CNR Lulu Island rail bridge.

Photograph depicts the "Haida Chieftain" tug of the Kingcome Navagation Ltd. at their wharf in Vancouver.

Photograph depicts the "Island Chief" tug of the Island Tug and Barge Company, off pier A3 (CPR) in Vancouver.

Photograph taken on the north arm of the Fraser River. Looking southeast from Queensborough Bridge to the north end of Wood Street.

Photograph depicts a privately owned tug of the Interior Lake Services called "Iris G." It was used to haul rail barge #6 between Slocan and Rosebury on Lake Slocan. It was in 1956 in New Westminster.

Photograph depicts a vessel called the "Ocean traveller." It was backing off from a public pier in Ucluelet.

Photograph depicts a clamshell dredge at work beside a BCE Railway trestle. It appeared to be placing rip-rap.

Photograph depicts "Canora," a CNR rail ferry that had recently retired from the Fraser River-Victoria ferry run. Visible are details of its bow and rudder and unseen propeller.

Photograph depicts "Canora," a CNR rail ferry.