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File consists of postcards depicting the Canadian Pacific Railway on the Alberta border and at other various locations.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of former KVR trackage in the Christina Lake area of British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of Kettle Valley Railway and current Burlington Northern Railroad trackage in Grand Forks and Greenwood, British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of railway features in Cranbrook, British Columbia.

Postcard depicts "Canadian Pacific's all Stainless Stel Scenic Dome Streamliner-"The Canadian"-in the Canadian Rockies."

Postcard depicts a CPR train en route through the Canadian Rockies, which the postcard deemed to be "The Switzerland of America."

File consists of postcards collected by David Davies of Rogers Pass and Glacier, BC.

Postcard depicts the Revelstoke Railway Museum. "Take a run down the track of Canadian History at the Revelstoke Railway Museum, located in the beautiful Columbia Valley. Museum exhibits trace the pople and events involved in the development of the CPR. Highlights include Steam Locomotive 5468 and a unique gift shop."

Postcard depicts the "general view of the town facing west with the railway station in the foreground. Revelstoke became a divisional centre of the railway in 1889 and has increased in importance with the growth of the railway and the Trans-Canada Highway."

Postcard depicts a view of the west-bound VIA Rail passenger train passing the Craigellachie Last Spike monument.

Postcard depicts the Kamloops CPR depot and gardens.

Postcard depicts a "quartet pf GP9 locomotives headed by 8621 skirts Kamloops Lake, BCwith a merchandise freight. A beautiful day in 1965."

Postcard depicts "VIA Rail Canada Nos. 6456 and 6454 hauling Train No. 1, "The Canadian" between Spences Bridge and Drynoch, British Columbia, on Canadian Pacific's Thompson Subdivision, having been delayed by the need to detour, from its usual route, on Canadian National's Ashcroft Subdivision, seen here across the Thompson River. May 14, 1993."

Postcard depicts Spences Bridge "overlooking the scenic beauty of the Thompson River as it flows past the entrance to the Nicola River and Valley, downstream from Kamloops-the Heart of Funland."

Postcard depicts Sailor Bar Tunnel on the Fraser Canyon Section of the Trans-Canada Highway.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of a CN bridge over the Fraser River in Prince George, British Columbia.

Postcard depicts a "Spectacular sight to be seen while travelling through this Canyon. Many trains rumble past with heavy loads making a grand sight when they twist and turn around corners along the clear blue water of the Thompson River."

Postcard depicts a "few miles up river from Spences Bridge this spectacular sight of the deep-blue Thomspon, among the sagegreen hills. Scores of ardent fishermen have found this river excellent for catching Steelhead throughout the fish run." Eastbound way freight of the CPR, upgrade. Way freights going from Kamloops to Ashcroft, etc. Still carried cabooses in 1996. Main line freights lost their cabooses in Jan./Feb. 1990. Photo likely taken in the late 1980s.

Postcard depicts "Twin Bridges in the Fraser Canyon. The CNR and CPR change sides at this point."

Postcard depicts Fraser River Canyon, BC"When travelling through this mighty scenic gorge, the highway often gets too narrow at points, and rock ledgeds required cutting tunnels in order to restore safety. This tunnel lies just north of Yale, BCIt handles traffic along the Trans-Canada Highway."

Postcard depicts train in Field, BC

File consists of postcards collected by David Davies of Kicking Horse Canyon in British Columbia.

Postcard depicts a brace of CPR GP9's with westbound freight crossing Stoney Creek Bridge. First car behind the locomotives was a stock car. CPR gave up all movement of livestock in 1974, so this photograph was taken before that year.

Postcard depicts the collapse of the bridge in Surprise Creek, BC1929. Showing locomotive 5767. Both crewmen killed. This locomotive was coupled to locomotive 5779 and as pusher engines were returning light to Beavermouth, when approaching, span collapsed. Sister locomotive escaped.

Postcard depicts a cairn "marking the spot where Canadian Pacific Railway was completed on November 7th, 1885. Twenty-eight miles west of Revelstoke, BC"

Postcard depicts where steam and muscle were combined in the "blue" cut above the Patricia siding to help punch through the spiral tunnels to reduce an "impossible" 4.5% greade to a reasonable 2.4% in the Rogers Pass.

Postcard depicts "one of Canadian Pacific's powerful 2-10-4 Selkirk locomotives grab[bing] hold of a 2800 Hudson to take a passenger run through the Canadian Rockies."