Photograph depicts machinery stored in Summerland beside KVR track. Property of the KVR Historical Society.
Photograph depicts former KVR track in Summerland. CPR speeders were parked on the main line.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the KVR in Princeton, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts the west yards of the KVR.
Photograph depicts a spur that led off on the norst side of the main line between Princeton and Brookmere. The last train seen here was in May, 1989.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of a BC Rail passenger train at Exeter Station in 100 Mile House, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts 2 Budd cars of a departing southbound train.
Photograph depicts a departing southbound train. Here, in another 20 days from the time the picture was taken, all passenger traffic would cease. It had never happened in the 80 year old history of the PGE/BCR.
Photograph depicts the Nelson Machinery yard in Savona.
Photograph depicts the Nelson Machinery yard in Savona.
Photograph depicts the Connaught Tunnel. Traffic was normally eastbound through it, while westbound traffic went through the new Mt. Macdonald Tunnel.
Photograph depicts the western portal of the 1916 Connaught Tunnel. The tunnel used to be double tracked, but was singled in the 1960s in orde to take piggy-back/container traffic. Curiously, the switch to the single was inside the tunnel.
Photograph depicts a grain elevator that had a 7 car spur to service it. Davies doubted if grain traffic ever moved by rail near Wynndel. Two flat cars appeared to have used the platform to overload machinery and vehicles.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of railway features in Cranbrook, British Columbia.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of a public passenger trip on the Canfor Logging Railway in Woss, BC on Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts a free tourist attraction on the Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train. The trip of 8 and a half miles from the Woss terminus was operated by Canadian Forest Products Ltd., Englewoood Logging Division.
Photograph depicts a water tank fitted with a pump for fire fighting.
Photograph depicts a Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train.
Photograph depicts a bridge of the Canfor Logging Railway.
Photograph depicts a bridge of the Canfor Logging Railway.
Photograph depicts a Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train.
Photograph depicts a returning Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train.
Photograph depicts a Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train.
Photograph depicts a Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train.
Photograph depicts a Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train.
Photograph depicts a Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train.
File consists of postcards collected by David Davies of the Thompson and Fraser River Canyons in British Columbia.
Postcard depicts Fraser Canyon. "One can catch thrilling sights through the Canyon such as this. Just a few miles south of Lyton, this view offers one some of the Fraser's best scenery."
Postcard depicts an area along the Thompson River, towards the Fraser Canyon. Looking left, downstream. Westbound CPR freight is visible. Short train by any standards in the 1980s and 1990s.
Postcard depicts the junction of Fraser River and Thompson River, near Lytton, BC
Postcard depicts a bridge on the CPR line.
Postcard depicts a reproduction of a photograph from 1880s/1890s. "The Canadian Pacific Railway (C.P.R.) was officially completed to the Pacific Coast in 1885 but upgrading was continually being carried out as seen here near Spence's bridge in 1905."
Postcard depicts Fraser Canyon near North Bend, BC
Postcard depicts "Twin Bridges in the Fraser Canyon." The CPR and CNR changes sides at this point just a few miles south of Lytton below the Siska Market. One can see this spectacular view where trains change from oe side to another. During construction one briodge was for easier grading. In later year when the second railway was constructed, it [had] become a must to reverse the side of [the] river at this point."
Postcard depicts Fraser River Canyon, BC
Postcard depicts Fraser Canyon, BC"The Saddle Rock view shows some of the rugged grandeur on the Canyon route between Hope and Lytton. It's muddy waters, at this time, gathered fourteen large and many small tributaries as it flows to the great Pacific."
Postcard depicts Yale on the Fraser River.
Postcard depicts Yale, BCin 1881.
The David Davies Railway Collection encompasses all facets of railway history specifically in the province of British Columbia and the Yukon territory. The collection consists of research material accumulated over the course of more than fifty years, and includes monographs, periodicals, articles, clippings, railway timetables, photographs, maps and plans, and excerpts. Material covers public, tourist, and private (industrial) railways, including: CPR, KVR, E&N; CNR, CNoR, GTPR; and PGER, BCR. The collection excludes material regarding streetcar systems and rapid transit, but includes long distance electric interurbans.