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Photograph depicts the laying of an extra spur for passenger car storage of Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours at the CN Downtown Depot in Kamloops.

Photograph depicts the CN Downtown Depot in Kamloops.

Photograph depicts the laying of an extra spur for passenger car storage of Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours at the CN Downtown Depot in Kamloops.

Photograph depicts the Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours yard. Main line track is found on the left and was still used by CN for Okanagan freights and other miscellaneous trafffic.

Photograph depicts a crane found at the CN Kamloops Junction.

Photograph depicts a crane that had been overturned and damaged after it had been by a rock that had tumbled down a creek in north Thompson.

Photograph depicts a crane found at the CN Kamloops Junction.

Photograph depicts a crane found at the CN Kamloops Junction.

Photograph depicts a crane that had just finished loading a flat car, minus its trucks, onto a road vehicle. It was going to be used on a logging bridge.

Photograph depicts a crane that had been renovated in 1993 after an accident that occurred up north Thompson. A huge rock tumbled down a creekl and overturned the crane. Taken at the Kamloops Junction.

Photograph depicts an engine driven by air or steam. Taken near a turntable at Kamloops Junction.

Photograph depicts a turntable that had been lifted out of a pit and set on the ground at the Kamloops Junction. Lifting had been done by two powerful sterling cranes.

Photograph depicts a turntable pit located at the CN Junction in Kamloops, BC

Photograph depicts a former turntable pit that was pictured immediately after the table was removed. The pit was later filled in with dirt/gravel. R.H. track wioth 2 locomotives was made into a running line. L.H. track that had a switcher was made into a dead-end spur.

Photograph depicts a former turntable pit iat the CN Kamloops Junction that was pictured immediately after the table was removed. CN lost no time in filling the pit. A running rail was salvaged by the 2141 Society.

Photograph depicts a turntable located at the CN Junction in Kamloops. It was strpped of rails and decking prior to being lifted out of the well.

Photograph depicts a turntable located at the CN Junction in Kamloops.

Photograph depicts a CN roundhouse that was built in 1929 at the Kamloops Junction. It was demolished in November, 1993.

Photograph depicts a CN roundhouse that was built in 1929 at the Kamloops Junction. It was demolished in November, 1993. The prime reason for its demolition was not wanting to pay local taxes on a building rarely used for anything except for motor vehicles, general temporary storage, etc.

Photograph depicts a CN roundhouse that was built in 1929 at the Kamloops Junction. It was demolished in November, 1993.

Photograph depicts the demolition of a CN roundhouse at the Kamloops Junction.

Photograph depicts a turntable where behind it a former roundhouse stood.

Photograph depicts a former boiler house and machine shop built in 1929. Located at the CNR Kamloops Junction.

Photograph depicts a Cn spur abutting Red Bridge, Kamloops.

Photograph depicts a spur that terminated close to Red Bridge on the north side of Thompson River. This end section of 200 yards had not been in use for at least 15 years. For 2-3 months near the date the photograph was taken, it was used to load scrap metal.

Photograph depicts the end of original 1916/17 trackage of the CNR in Kamloops. Track between a bitumen tank farm and a bridge that was not in use between about 1985 and 1995. In 1996, scrap metal was slowly piled beisde the trackside. 2-4 gondola's were visibly filled.

Photograph depicts Wilkinson Steel Ltd. The spur line was inside the property with an empty bulkhead car awaiting removal.

Photograph depicts Wilkinson Steel Ltd. The spur was serviced by CN. Visible is an empty bulkhead car that had recently been brought in for its steel.

Photograph depicts details of a CN derailment that occurred in Kamloops.

Photograph depicts the Superior Propane Ltd. tank yard behind Wilkinson Steel Ltd.

Photograph depicts tanks cars loaded with bitumen, used for blacktopping, found outisde Pounder Emulsions Ltd.

Photograph depicts Pounder Emulsions Ltd. which received bitumens and distributed them to blacktop plants from April till October.

Photograph depicts a spur located next to Pounder Emulsions Ltd. Electric capstan (Jeffrey Electric Co, Montreal) used to move full and empty tank cars of bitumen (for blacktops). Did not appear to be used.

Photograph depicts a CNR spur adjacent to the South Thompson River and at the northwest end of Red Bridge. Northwest Metal Recycling Ltd., Indian Reserve used the spot to load gondola cars with steel scraps.

Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops. A wrecked car was being lifted high above the track.

Photograph depicts a switcher pushing an empty gondola car into position under a suspended wreck car.

Photograph depicts the wrecked car being wedged into a gondola which was then drawn away and taken to the Junction yards and parked. The second switcher propels another gondola rapdily into position.

Photograph depicts how wrecked cars were removed from the Brockelhurst derailment site using a CN rail crane and a rented Sterling Crane Co. crane, which was set up right beside the track. Here, the car was lifted from the side of the track and positioned above the rail track.

Photograph depicts wheel sets being loaded into ballast cars.

Photograph depicts a hopper being dragged along a ditch/temporary road to the east end of the Brockelhurst derailment pile-up. It was to be hoisted onto a gondola car.

Photograph depicts the back end of a wreck train that had 2 ballast cars which are loaded with smaller pieces like wheelsm trucks, track bits, etc.

Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops. Captures a close-up of CN crane #50397, built in 1957.

Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops. Car #57630 found in the foreground and crane idler #58113 is next to it.

Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops.

Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops. It was an 80 car hopper train carrying urea fertilizer. It derailed 28 cars and most were severely damaged. Ripped up 200 meteres of the track.

Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops. Cars were being pushed onto side pieces near the right-of-way.

Photograph depicts a wreck train in Kamloops.

Photograph depicts a wreck train in Kamloops. Urea pellets were sucked out by a road tanker and then sold to Purity Feeds Ltd.

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.

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