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Photograph depicts a mine electric railway. Visible is a powder car that was painted red and head a wooden box. It was used twice weekly on the explosives haul till the Anaconda Britannia Mine was closed on November 1, 1974.

Photo depits a mule locomotive. A contractor from Calgray won the contract to remove the rails of the Anaconda Britannia Mine that was closed on November 1, 1974. The contractor bought the locomotive to do the job. It pulled out 2000-3000 ft. of twin sets of rails from the far end of a tunnel to open air at this point. Then, it unbolted them further into lengths and stocked them for shipment possibly to the Yukon.

Photograph depicts a mule trolley locomotive, formerly Anaconda Britannia Mines Ltd. #1. It was owned by a demolition contractor.

Photograph depicts a rail retrieval train that was used by a contractor. Rail at this location was scarce as it was acquired for use elsewhere.

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 the access point, which is via this portal, from the yard to the main haulage tunnel at the Britannia Copper Mine.

Photograph depicts a rare photograph of the owner of the railway collection in Britannia Beach.

Photograph depicts members of the Pacific Coast branch of the Canadian Railroad Historical Association.

Photograph depicts members of the Pacific Coast branch of the Canadian Railroad Historical Association.

Photograph depicts derelict trackage on Britannia Beach wharf. Trackage was last used in about 1955-57. Davies noted fitments that were used to carry overload line.

Photograph depicts derelict traction wheels found behind a railway workshop in Britannia Beach.

Photograph depicts what Davies catogorizes to be an "oddball" piece of equipment found in Britannia Beach.

Photograph depicts one of the 8 flat cars at the Britannia Copper Mine.

Photograph depicts one of the 23 ore hopper cars built by Vancouver Iron and Engineering Company Ltd., Vancouver in about 1942.

Photograph depicts the Britannia Copper Mine in Howe Sound. The view is looking southeast.

Photograph depicts locomotive #1 that was used as an ore bin switcher.

Photograph depicts the main haulage line's portal in Britannia Beach.

Photograph depicts trackage between the haulage portal and ore bins found in Britannia Beach.

Photograph depicts part of the trackage north of a railway workshop that was not in use.

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 #6, built by General Electric. It used to carry 12 people half a mile into the mountain of the Britannia Copper Mine.

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 spotted 100 yards south of an ore bin in Britannia Beach.

Photograph depicts locomotive #6 at the portal of the main haulage tunnel in Britannia Beach.

Photograph depicts locomotive #8 built by Baldwin and was presumably the oldest amongtst the locomotives at the Britannia Copper Mine. It was only used for track maintenance.

Photograph depicts two moran cars that were used for hauling ready-mixed cement.

Photograph depicts a mule trolley locomotive #1 that purchased in August 1975 by a demolition contractor from Calgary. It was used to remove rails from the main haulage line.

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 railway workshop and car yard, west of the main portal of the main line in Britannia Beach. Locomotive #5 is visible.

Phoro depicts railways workshops in Britannia Beach.

Photograph depicts a dead end 100 yard tunnel beyond the ore bins in Britannia Beach. Davies notes that it was easier to tunnel than to make a track shelf.

Photograph depicts British Navy cottages (styled after cottages in the U.K.) in Esquimalt. Built when Dockyard was operated by the Imperial Navy.

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 a water tower maintained by volunteers. It moved to the present site from a concrete base near the KVR trackside.

Photograph depicts the Buckingham Apartments at 925 Cardero St.and Barclay St. in Vancouver, B.C.

Photograph depicts the Buckingham Apartments at 925 Cardero St. in Vancouver, B.C. after a snowfall. The view is looking south and depicts Barclay St. crossing in the foreground.

Photograph depicts a southbound Budd car on Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway (CPR) track.

Photograph depicts the builder's plaque of the C.N.R. S.S. Canora.

File consists of documents relating to the construction of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE), which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes a chronology of the history of PGE, a list of sub-contractors who completed the Squamish sub-division, "PGE/BCR: Dease Lake Extension First 25 Years, 1968 to 1993", and "P.G.E.R. 1914 to 1923: Progressive Dates of Commencement of Passenger Service".

Photograph depicts a possible storage and coal shed, and toilets located on the west side of track about a quarter mile north of the McCulloch depot building. McCulloch depot is located at mile 76.6 on the Carmi Subdivision.

Photograph depicts small buildings sited on the north side of the tracks and just west of the Mission City CPR depot. They are all in use and well cared for.

Photograph depicts buildings of the former Vancouver-Lansdale ferry. They appeared to now be used by Kingcome Navigation Co. as well as other businesses.

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 a disued or abandoned track 2 miles south of Keremeos. Tracks was broken at one bridge and at least one cover was as well. Fences were erected across it.

Photograph depicts a BN snow plow in Fruitvale.

Photograph depicts boat named "Burnaco."

Photograph depicts the Burrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd. on the North Shore in Vancouver. There is a freighter in dock #2.

Photograph depicts the business car "British Columbia" (ex. C.P.R.) at the C.N. station in Vancouver. It is tailing the special to Hope, on its first run since acquisition by the West Coast Railway Association.

Photograph depicts the business car "Van Horne" at the C.P.R. False Creek yard in Vancouver, B.C. It is not numbered.

Photograph depicts "Butterchurch" that was built in 1870 under the direction of Father Rondeault of the Oblate Order for missionary work among the Comiakan Natives, a tribe of about 100. It was abandoned by about 1880 because of its location. It was recently restored as a historical shrine.