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Photograph taken at the Kalamalka flag stop and siding that took up to 40 cars. A section house used to exist there, Davies notes. Virtually there was no public access in former days, so the siding was most likely used as a storage place for Kelowna fruit. A private speeder is found in the shadows on the main line.

Photograph depicts siding at the Kalamalka flag stop.

Photograph taken north of Oyama. A private speeder is found in the middle distance.

Photograph taken on the shores of Wood Lake, a very picturesque stretch.

Photograph depicts trackage on the outskirts of Kelowna, near the CN yards.

Photograph taken at the CN yards in Kelowna. Visible is scrap metal being loaded onto a gondola.

Photograph depicts trackage on the outskirts of Kelowna, near the CN yards.

Photograph depicts trackage on the outskirts of Kelowna, near the CN yards.

Photograph depicts trackage on the outskirts of Kelowna, near the CN yards.

Photograph depicts trackage on the outskirts of Kelowna, near the CN yards.

Photograph depicts trackage on the outskirts of Kelowna, near the CN yards.

Photograph taken at the CN yards in Kelowna. Visible are chip cars.

Photograph depicts a CNR tractor, an old piece of Maintenance of Way equipment coverted to haul equipment required to run at low speeds. It also saved switchers.

Photograph depicts a CNR caboose labelled "For Engineering Use." Spotted on a spur behind several ballast cars labelled "Branch Line Rehabilitation."

Photograph depicts a "trackmobile" in the CNR Boston Bar yard. Work on replacing ties was being carried out 5-10 miles to north.

Photograph depicts lettering on several ballast cars which were headed by a tracktor and tailed by a caboose.

Photograph depicts equipment that says "Fairmont Tamper," but Davies states that it must be a ballast reclaimer and screener.

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 taken looking west towards a lake. Davies notes that the reason for this visible particular configuration is that the CNR and the CPR yards used to be west of Ellis. At the time the photograph was taken, such land was needed for better development, e.g. hotels, high rise residences, sports area, etc.

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 relocated and relaid trackage that served a sawmill located at Lakeshore and Bay Street, at the north end of downtown Kelowna.The rail approach was then via Weddell. Two spurs on the left took chip cars while the two spurs on the right were for box cars filled with finished products.

Photograph depicts a disused depot at Ellis and Clement. Taken from Ellis, looking east. Tracks across Ellis had just been removed. Side walk was inserted and black top had been laid. The removal of the road crossing signals had yet to be done.

Photograph depicts a sawmill at the edge of Okanagan Lake at the north end of downtown Kelowna. The end of a chip loading spur is visible on the left.

Photograph depicts a disused depot at Ellis and Clement. Taken from Ellis, looking east. Track was an isolated piece between St. Paul Street and Ellis and had been subsequently removed. Davies notes the vague talk at the time of converting the building into a railway centre

Photograph depicts a locomotive crew change point in Boston Bar. Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours train visible.

Photograph depicts a locomotive crow change point in Boston Bar. Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours passing eastbound. The depot was abandoned and up for sale.

Photograph depicts a locomotive crew change point in Boston Bar. Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours train visible.

Photograph depicts the Boston Bar CN depot that once was a dismissal point of some importance that had a roundhouse, turntable, etc. The depot was now empty, awaiting a purchase.

Photograph depicts a shack built by VIA because the depot in Boston bar was unused, empty, locked and awaiting a buyer.

Photograph depicts disused CN track that had been promised to Kamloops Heritage Railway.

Photograph depicts a CN turntable pit in Boston Bar.

Photograph depicts CN car #55402, built in 1935.

Photograph depicts CN car #55402, built in 1935.

Photograph depicts the first train to move over the remade track after a derailment in Savona.

Photograph depicts a pipe yard of West Coast Gas Transmission. Two large pipes had gotten away and rolled onto the railway.

Photograph depicts the cut where gas pipes rolled in and derailed westbound freight.

Photograph depicts wrecked sulphur cars parked in a pipe yard.

Photograph depicts a collision between two freights (visible is the head of one and the tail of the other) at this switch. The signal was knocked down, but a replacement was erected. It was being tested while the photograph was being taken. Switch blade movements were remotely controlled.

Photograph depicts a collision that occurred at the west switch of the crossing in Savona. At some point, freight was derailed by huge pipes that rolled on the track in November 1991.

Photograph depicts the site of two derailment mishaps in 1991 and 1995. In November 1991, there was (and still is) a pipe yard of West Coast Gad Transmission Ltd. located above the track. Two huge pipes got away and rolled down the cut into the path of oncoming train. A concrete block wall was erected to stop this. Also, all pipes were stored at 90 degrees to the rail track.

Photograph depicts a train passing over restored track after a derailment in Savona.

Photograph depicts the eastern portal of CPR Mount Macdonald Tunnel. The door was lifted vertically upwards. The ventilation system pushed air into the tunnel from a halfway vertical shaft, purging the bore of exhaust gases that came from the locomotives.

Photograph depicts the eastern portal of CPR Mount Macdonald Tunnel. Train passing through it.

Photograph depicts the eastern portal of CPR Mount Macdonald Tunnel. Construction for the tunnel began in 1984 and was completed on November 9, 1988.