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File consists of material regarding the Cranbrook Railway Museum. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, pamphlets, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of material regarding the Rocky Mountaineer and the Great Canadian Railtour Company, which operated on CN and CPR track. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, pamphlets, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of material regarding the BC Rail operated steam tourist trains with the Royal Hudson Locomotive 2860 and its alternate locomotive #3716. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, pamphlets, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "Steam is Alive and Well and Living in British Columbia" by McGarry; "Resurrection of a Royal Hudson" by Brown; "The Story of Canadian Pacific Royal Hudson No. 2860"; and "End of the Line for BC Rail Steam".

File consists of material regarding BC Rail luxury tourist train tours, such as the Cariboo Prospector, the Whistler Explorer, and the Pacific Starlight. All services ended in 2002. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, pamphlets, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of a publication by Robert D. Turner entitled "Vancouver Island Railroads."

File consists of various editions of David Davies' BC Rail Guide No. 10 entitled "The Britannia Copper Mine Railway" from 1977 and 1991.

File consists of material regarding the British Columbia Museum of Mining and the Britannia Copper Mine. Predominantly consists of tourist pamphlets, commemorative publications, photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of material regarding the Britannia Copper Mine Railway. Predominantly consists of notes, correspondence, photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of a Pacific Coast Division Canadian Railroad Historical Association publication by Eric L. Johnson entitled "Mining Railways of the Klondike: Narrow Gauge Railways Serving Coal Mines on Cliff Creek and Coal Creek, and a Placer Gold Operation on Bear Creek, Yukon Territory, 1899 to 1918".

File consists of a BC Railway Historical Association publication by R. Ken Bradley entitled "Historic Railways of the Powell River Area".

File consists of material regarding the industrial railway of the lead-zinc mine known variously as the Sullivan Mine/Cominco Mine/Kimberley Mine in Kimberley, British Columbia. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of material regarding the Clayburn Brick Company industrial railway. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of material regarding the Northwood Pulp & Timber Limited private industrial railway in Prince George. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of material regarding the Hedley Gold Mine industrial railway. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of a BC Railway Historical Association publication by Elwood White and David Wilkie entitled "Shays on the Switchbacks: A History of the Narrow Gauge Lenora, Mt. Sicker Railway".

File consists of material regarding standard and narrow gauge industrial railways in British Columbia. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of material regarding colliery railways in British Columbia. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of material regarding compressed air locomotives. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes background notes by Davies on compressed air locomotives in British Columbia.

File consists of material regarding Porter locomotives, a type of light-duty locomotive manufactured by H.K. Porter, Inc. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes background notes by Davies on the H.K. Porter company and a compiled list of all known Porter locomotives that worked in British Columbia and the Yukon.

File consists of material regarding Heisler locomotives, a type of geared industrial railway locomotive built by Stearns Manufacturing Company of Erie, Pennsylvania. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of material regarding Climax locomotives, a type of geared industrial railway locomotive built by Climax Manufacturing Company of Corry, Pennsylvania. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Contains a list of Climax steam locomotives used in British Columbia and a reproduction of "The Climax Patent Geared Locomotives Catalogue 'L'" from 1924.

File consists of material regarding Shay locomotives, a build of geared industrial railway locomotive. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about Lima Locomotive Works, narrow gauge 'baby shays', the Crown Zellerbach No. 1 Shay locomotive, Also includes the following works: "Preserved Geared Steam Locomotives Used in Canada" by Mike Green; "The South's Shay: Graham County 1925 Returns to Steam"; "Britain's Only Shay Engine: The 'Beast of Bilston' and Other Geared Locos" by Cliff Thomas; and original and reproductions of "The Lima Catalog No. S-4 1925" of Shay locomotives from Lime Locomotive Works.

File consists of a publication by Mervyn T. 'Mike' Green entitled "Industrial Locomotives: A Catalogue of Industrial Locomotives and Short Lines of British Columbia and Yukon Territory (An All-Time Listing, Including Museums)". This publication is B.C. Rail Guide No. 11.

File consists of general material regarding steam and diesel industrial railway locomotives. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about various industrial locomotives, such as those manufactured by Plymouth, General Electric, Davenport, Whitcomb, Vulcan Iron Works, Baldwin, Trackmobile, Dominion, and others. Also includes the following works: "Mining and Tunnelling Locomotives in British Columbia Today" by Mervyn T. Green; "Industrial Strength Railfanning" by Fred Clark; "Non-Steam Industrial Locomotives of B.C.: Part 1 and Introduction" by Jeremy Lambert; "Fort George Railway"; "Gen-set Units Make the Scene on Vancouver Waterfront"; and "List (Incomplete) of Narrow Gauge Locomotives Used by Contractors Building Railways in BC in period 1905-1925" compiled by Davies.

File consists of material regarding the Canfor Logging Railway in Nimpkish Valley on Vancouver Island. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about Nimpkish Valley, the Englewood Logging Railway, steam locomotives of the Nimpkish Valley, and Canfor company history. Also includes a BC Railway Historical Association Bulletin No. 2 from June 1960 entitled "Canadian Forest Products Limited Nimpkish Valley Railway".

File consists of a BC Railway Historical Association publication by David M. Rees-Thomas entitled "Timber Down the Capilano: A History of the Capilano Timber Company on Vancouver's North Shore".

File consists of a BC Department of Commercial Transport Railways Branch publication compiled by R.E. Swanson entitled "A History of Railroad Logging".

File consists of material regarding logging railways in British Columbia. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes articles by Robert Turner entitled "Pacific Coast Logging: A General History", "Pacific Coast Logging: Steam Locomotives", "Pacific Coast Logging: The Diesel Era", "Pacific Coast Logging: Steam Era Equipment and Rolling Stock", and "Pacific Coast Logging: Gas-powered Speeder and a Transfer Caboose". Also includes the following works: "British Columbia Forest Products Cowichan Sawmill Division: The Youbou Story"; "A Perspective on Forest Policy" by Sorensen; "Locies for Loggers" by Hoffmeister; "The Water Tank at Chemainus" by D'Amato; "Logging Railways on Denman Island" notes by Davies; "Logging Railways in BC: Sources" by Davies; "Rayonier, Inc.: Railroading in the Northwest Pines" by Gutohrlein; "From Timber to Tidewater" by Sabol; "T & NVR Last Run" by Ballantyne; "Logging & Sawmilling" songs of the Pacific Northwest; "A Rainy Day in the Woods: Reflections on a Shay Day" by Bedfellow; "Crown Zellerbach Canada Logging Equipment Museum and Arboretum, Ladysmith, B.C."; and "From the Hill to the Spill: A Breathless History of B.C. Logging" by Trower.

File consists of material regarding the Hillcrest Lumber Company Limited and its leased rail line. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about the steam locomotives of the Hillcrest Lumber Company, the rail line from the mill at Honeymoon Bay to the E&N/CPR branch line terminal at Cowichan Lake, and an article by Ian Smith entitled "B.C. Logging Line Set the Scene for Unique Fan-Trips".

File consists of material regarding the Comox Logging and Railway Company, which rafted timber to Fraser Mills, Coquitlam on the Fraser River. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of research material regarding saltwater rail activities by railways other than CP and CN. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about PGE tug and barge operations, Alaska Trainship, and rail barge slips near Vancouver. Also includes the following works: "PGE/BC Rail - Squamish Harbour" by Eric Johnson and "Pacific Great Eastern's Maritime Operations, 1913-1957" by David Morgan and Jim Moore.

File consists of research material regarding saltwater rail ferry accidents at sea. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of research material regarding the Canadian National Railway saltwater rail ferry S.S. Canora (an abbreviation of 'Canadian Northern Railway', which built the steamer). Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about the history of the S.S. Canora.

File consists of material regarding saltwater rail ferries in British Columbia run by the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Canadian National Railway. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works:

File consists of material regarding freshwater rail ferries in British Columbia. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "B.C. Lake and River Service" by J. Fitzsimmons; "Canadian National Railways British Columbia Transfer Barge Services, Part II of II) by Frank Clapp; "Rosebery Barge Slip - C.P. Rail, Kaslo Sub-div., Aug. 1983: Recollections and Historical Data" by Davies; "'Finished with Engines' Signals end of Okanagan Lake Service" by Eric Sismey; "The Iris G, et al.: Much of Canadian Pacific's History has been written upon the water, perhaps most poignantly by this tug, its train-on-a-barge, and their ancestors" by Steve Patterson; "Moving Fresh Fruit by Steam Tugboat: The Introduction of Railway Transfer Barges in the Okanagan" by Ian Pooley; "The Shipwrecked Hogger!" by John A. Rushton; "Riding a Wilderness Branch Line [Nakusp-Slocan] that Includes a 2 1/2-hour Lake Cruise in a Car Barge" by Ashmead et al.; "The Lady of the Lake" by Streight; a 1949 CPR "Inventory of Floating Equipment of the B.C. Lake and River Service"; "Canadian Pacific's S.S. Minto" by Bill Kee; and a draft of "C.P.R. Comes Ashore at Okanagan Lake" by Davies.

File consists of a 1973 publication by Edward Lloyd Affleck entitled "Sternwheelers, Sandbars and Switchbacks: A Chronicle of Steam Transportation in the British Columbia Waterways of the Columbia River System, 1865 to 1965". This is a "revised and enlarged edition, containing a chapter on 'two generations of steamboating on British Columbia's inland lakes' as told to Edward L. Affleck by Otto L. Estabrooks".

File consists of general material regarding rail ferries in British Columbia. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "British Columbia's Rail Water Services in 1968" (1969) by Davies; "Rail-Water Services in B.C., 1968" (2008) by Davies; "93 Years of Railway Ferries on San Francisco Bay" by James Holden; "Integration in the North" by George W. Hilton; "Legacy of a Rowboat... Foss - 'Always Ready'" by Foss Launch & Tug Company; "The Quebec Train Ferry of 1914" by S.S. Worthen; "Great Lakes Car Ferries: An Endangered Species" by George W. Hilton; and "Pacific Northwest Rail-Marine Bibliography" by John Teichmoeller. Also includes information about CNR's marine activities, GNR port service, railway links to Cape Breton Island, CN Alaska cruises, and earlier barge-slips (pre-1968).

File consists of copies of Davies article, "Moving Livestock by Rail: An Inquiry into an Extinct Traffic", which was published in the Spring 2006 issue of The Sandhouse.

File consists of depictions of livestock cartage by rail. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes illustrations that Davies used for his article, "Railway Recollections of a BC Sheep Rancher".

File consists of research material compiled in conjunction with an article by David Davies and John (Jack) K. Moilliet entitled "Railway Recollections of a B.C. Sheep Rancher". Includes notes by Davies about one example of sheep ranching in the Kamloops area.

File consists of material regarding the rail-related aspects of livestock cartage. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about SPCA inspections, stock car accidents, shipping cattle and sheep by rail, weight of livestock, stockmen on trains, livestock loading, the last stock car shipment in Canada, stockyards, ranching in the southern interior plateau of British Columbia, hay feeding, other details relating to stock trains. Also includes a book chapter by David Davies entitled "Cowtown and Railcity" about Kamloops' connection with rail livestock cartage.

File consists of material regarding related details about shipping livestock by rail. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about meat packing, dressed meat weights, ranching industry in BC, meat inspection, meat consumption in BC and Canada, the meat processing industry in BC before 1947, and livestock movement.

File consists of material regarding livestock cartage in the United States. Moving livestock by rail was developed in the United States and later evolved in Canada. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about the stock cars of the Santa Fe Railway, Rio Grande narrow gauge stock cars, South Pacific stock cars, Eastern stock cars, and other early American stock cars.

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the cement, brick, glass, gypsum, and limestone industries. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about Lafarge Cement, limestone quarrying in British Columbia, the cement industry at Kamloops, Clayburn Brickworks near Abbotsford, the limestone quarry and kiln at Pavilion, gravel processing, the Tilbury Cement Company, the gypsum mine in Falkland, and railway ballast quarries.

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the grain industry. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about grain elevators in British Columbia, grain haulage statistics, grain hopper cars, the Crow Rate, and grain transport reform. Also includes the following articles: "Going with the Grain" by Stagl; "Canada's Century" by Bohi and Kozma; and "Grain Loading" by Kinkaid.

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the fishing industry. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about fish traffic from CNR in Prince Rupert, canneries and the role of railways in product distribution, fish canneries near Prince Rupert, the Gulf of George Cannery, and canneries in Steveston.

File consists of material regarding container ports, intermodal centres, and other shipping ports. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about Roberts Bank Port, the Port of Prince Rupert, piggyback service, Vancouver's Deltaport, planning a container port, containerized transport, Ogden Point Docks in Victoria, Prince Rupert's Ridley Island Port, and the Port of Vancouver.

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the automobile industry. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "Outgoing Automobile Rail Traffic in BC" by Davies and "Railroads and the Automobile Age" by Jim Hediger.

File consists of material regarding miscellaneous freight transport. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about freight from abattoirs and meat packing plants, scrap metal yards, feed mills, and other businesses.

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the coal mining industry. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "Once Accursed the Crowsnest Blooms" by G. Patrick Green; "Coal Mines of Vancouver Island" compiled by Davies; "How Strong is Coal?" by Andy Cummings; "Coal Mines in the East Kootenays of B.C." compiled by Davies; "Coal From the Crowsnest: How Canadian Pacific moves British Columbia Bituminous" by John Garden; "Cumberland: Coal-dust Memories Stir a Sleepy Village" by McGill and Strong; "Quintette Mine: The Heart of North East Coal"; and "Where's That Coal Train Going?" by Tom Murray.