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Glenwalker Ranch
2013.6.36.1.078.01 · Item · [13 May 1979]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts Glenwalker Ranch. Visible are details of the log construction of a barn that was built between 1890 and 1910.

O'Keefe Ranch
2013.6.36.1.078.03 · Item · [July 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken at Okangan Lake, on Alexis Beach. O'Keefe Ranch is located at the head of the lake. Visible is an old house that was used as a hay barn.

Cabin near Williams Lake
2013.6.36.1.078.06 · Item · [July 1973]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a cabin near Williams Lake. Its interior contained two old treadle sewing machines and a chesterfield. Davies had the impression it had not been inhabited for at least a decade.

2013.6.36.1.079.05 · Item · [9 Sept. 1970]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a working undershot water wheel on Lardeau Creek River. It was the only water wheel seen in B.C. between 1963 and 1970. It was designed to drive an electricity generating set, but it was not coupelled to the set at the time.

Undershot water wheel
2013.6.36.1.079.11 · Item · 5 Sept. 1970
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the same person who owned the service station building electric generator house in Trout Lake. He also built an undershot water wheel that was driven by Lardeau Creek.

Replacement rail bridge
2013.6.36.1.091.02 · Item · Sept. 1998
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a replacement rail bridge. Forms sat on a temporary pile of dirt, which in turns sat on a road bed of a new highway that had just been cut.

New CN overpass
2013.6.36.1.091.05 · Item · Sept. 1998
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a new CN overpass in Campbell Creek. Looking at new eastbound lane of the Trans Canada Highway. It was all paid for by the Provincial Department of Highways in order to convert the 2 lanes into 4 in order to improve visibility and stretch the highway.

New CN overpass
2013.6.36.1.091.07 · Item · Sept. 1998
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a new CN overpass in Campbell Creek. The new part of the Trans-Canada Highway beneath it had yet to be paved.

New CN overpass
2013.6.36.1.091.08 · Item · Sept. 1998
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a new CN overpass in Campbell Creek. The grade crossing at the newly created service/business road was built on the south side of a road/rail complex.

CPR Wynndel
2013.6.36.1.129.01 · Item · Sept. 2000
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

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.

CPR Wynndel
2013.6.36.1.129.04 · Item · Sept. 2000
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken looking north, with a spur in the foreground. It was used by ore mixed freight daily. It was believed that at the bottom of the grade was a junction with a GNR branch that ran from the US border south of Creston to Kootenay Lake (built in 1904, then was hardly used, finally ceased in 1910).