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Photograph depicts a Sperry Rail service car #136 at the Penticton C.P.R. depot. Note the larger bogie on the right hand bogie which accommodates detection gear. It is being serviced before moving to an area west of Penticton.

Photograph depicts a Sperry Rail service car #136 at the Penticton C.P.R. depot. It is for detecting faulty or broken rails and visits the area once a year. It is moving off to start work at mile 34 west of Penticton.

Photograph depicts the Sperry Rail service car at the C.P.R. Penticton depot, just moving off to the west.

Photograph depicts the Sperry Rail service car #136 for detection of faulty rails at the Penticton C.P.R. depot. It is used mainly to cover rail manufactured prior to 1932.

Photograph depicts a private car owned by the Interior Contracting Co. Ltd. of Penticton, at the C.P.R. Penticton depot. No building date is shown on the car.

Photograph depicts the Canadian National Railway (CN) freight depot at Penticton, with a motor/rail tractor in the photo.

Photograph depicts the Canadian National Railway (CN) line at Penticton. The wharf at the lake head is for loading rail scows.

Photograph depicts a CNR slip in Penticton on Okanagan Lake. It shows two rail sets being bolted together.

Photograph depicts a CNR slip in Penticton on Okanagan Lake. The first two cars are being removed from a barge. There is a gas driven winch on the after port of the barge. A cable is taken around a pulley (white in the middle ground) and then attached to the frame of the 1st car- as shown in this photo. This gets the cars moving and gravity plus the brakes does the rest.

Photograph depicts a CNR slip in Penticton on Okanagan Lake. The two gentleman are conferring as to where the cars are to be switched.

Photograph depicts a CNR slip in Penticton on Okanagan Lake. It shows a general view of the slip and unloading operations, plus a road and rail tractor.

Photograph depicts a CNR slip in Penticton on Okanagan Lake. It shows a general view of the sidings leading from the barge slip . The tractor could move two cars on the level, but did not move cars to and from the barge. The winch was used to pull all cars, including tank cars, onto the barge.

Photograph depicts an all steel refrigerated car in the CPR yard in Penticton.

Photograph depicts two of the three snowplows in stationed din the CPR Penticton yard.

Photograph depicts service car #409780 in the CPR Penticton yard. The car had no building date.

Photograph depicts a scraper car in CPR Penticton yard. It has the blade of a snowplow, showing at right.

Photograph depicts a turntable at the CPR Penticton yard. The view is looking east.

Photographed depicts part of a deserted roundhouse in the CPR Penticton yard. It is a 5 bay house, which all lead to the turntable that is still in use. The view is looking northeast.

Photograph depicts a dead end stop at the CPR Penticton yard.

Photograph depicts the disused CPR Kettle Valley Railway line in Penticton. The trackage leads from the lakefront to the main yards. All the track was removed by July 1981. The view is looking northeast to the lake and the Incola Hotel.

Photograph depicts the disused CPR Kettle Valley Railway line in Penticton. The trackage leads from the Okanagan Lake CPR wharf to the main yards. All the trackage was obliterated by July 1981. The photo was taken about 1 block away from the lake and near Brunswick St. The view is looking southwest.

Photograph depicts the CPR Kettle Valley Railway mainline in downtown Penticton. It is in the vicinity of Pickering St. and Haywood St. The view is looking southwest.

Photograph depicts the Penticton CPR depot. The view is looking northwest.

Photograph depicts a sign reading "Penticton East" beside a hut in the Penticton CPR depot yard.

Photograph depicts a street car body that formerly belonged to Vancouver, but was found by Davies in Penticton.

Photograph depicts a CPR tug named the "Okanagan" that was assembled at the Okanagan landing. It usually tooks 3 hours and 10-15 minutes to travel from Kelowna to Penticton with one rail scow in tow.

Photograph depicts CN tug #6 (built in 1948) with a rail barge, empty cars (used for fruit), and one returned empty explosives car from Peachland.

Photograph depicts tug #6 closing the gap on Okanagan Lake.

Photograph depicts a tug preparing to run alongside pilings. It propels the barge along Okanagan Lake in thi position.

Photograph taken at the Penticton Airport where WWII military airplanes meet. This US military plane was flown by a US Air Militia on a courtesy visit. It was built in the early 1950's.