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Postcard depicts Glacier House and Great Glacier.

Postcara depoiocts Connaught Tunnel in the Canadian Rockies.

Postcard depicts the entrance to the east end of the Connaught Tunnel.

Postcard depicts Illecillewaet Glacier from the Railway. "One of the chief attractions for tourists is the Illecillewaet Glacier, and, while not the largest in the Canadian Rockies, it is the most accessible and in every way representative of these most interesting natural phenomena. A trip across its face leaves a lasting impression on one's memory. The Illecillewaet River takes its rise from the great glacier of the Selkirks."

Postcard depicts "The Loop, as this great pear-shaped arc of trestle was known along with the spectacular station and hotel facilities at Glacier were replaced by the Connaught Tunnel in 1916."

Postcard depicts Albert Canyon.

Postcard depicts "The Loop," CPR Selkirks.

Postcard depicts the summit of the Selkirk Range. Board in the right foreground says "Rogers Pass 1 Mile."

Postcard depicts the crossing of "The Loop."

Postcard depicts "Summit City" in Rogers Pass, built in 1886 and existed only for the consctruction of the CPR.

Postcard depicts engine #154 on Mountain Creek Bridge in 1885. Bridge-164 ft, in height, 1086 ft. in length.

Postcard depicts the Rogers Pass CPR station. A snowslide wiped out the station on January 9, 1899.

Postcard depicts the CPR station at Albert Canyon, BC, circa 1900.

Postcard depicts a train entering the Connaught Tunnel and Ross Peak.

Postcard depicts the east portal of the Connaught Tunnel.

Postcard depicts the east portal of the Connaught Tunnel and Mount Macdonald.

Postcard depicts the east portal of the Connaught Tunnel.

Postcard depicts Glacier Station.

Postcard depicts Illecillewaet Valley and Loop near Glacier, BC

Postcard possibly taken in Glacier, BC

Postcard depicts Illecillewaet Valley. Taken adjacent to snowsheds and the second crossing of the Illecillewaet River. It had the appearance of being the location for a safety switch and spur to divert a runaway train that had come down the "Loop" from Glacier Station.

Postcard depicts Illecillewaet Valley. Circa 1914-16. New grade being built for use with Connaught Tunnel grade reductions at Rogers Pass. Original right-of-way still in use.

Postcard depicts Illecillewaet Valley and Loop from Observation Point, Glacier B.C., on the CPR line.

Postcard depicts "one of Canadian Pacific's powerful 2-10-4 Selkirk locomotives grab[bing] hold of a 2800 Hudson to take a passenger run through the Canadian Rockies."

Postcard depicts a snow plow. "Completion of the Connaught Tunnel in 1916 solved the worst of the severe weather problems faced by the CPR in Rogers Pass, where snowfalls average 50 feet. Based at Revelstokem a locomotive-pushed wedge plow and a Jordan spreader equipped with air-operated wings and retractable nose plates skim over the rails near Fraine, BC"

Postcard depicts Illecillewaet Valley from Lookout Point on Mt. Abbott, near Glacier B.C.

Postcard depicts "The Four Tracks."

Postcard depicts Imperial Limited on the Great Loop in the Selkirks, near Glacier, BC

Postcard depicts "The Loop," Glacier, BC

Postcard depicts the Illecillewaet Valley, near Glacier, BCThe view shows the end of the descent over Rogers Pass, if travelling westerly. The scar in the foreground was believed to be the track between the 1st (Glacier Hotel) and 2nd (Loop Brook) loops.

Postcard depicts "The Loop," CPR, Selkirk Mountain.

Postcard depicts the west portal of the Connaught Tunnel, near Glacier, BCDavies noted the ventilation engine house above the entrance.

File consists of postcards collected by David Davies of the CPR line from Revelstoke to Savona, British Columbia.

Postcard depicts the Revelstoke Railway Museum. "Take a run down the track of Canadian History at the Revelstoke Railway Museum, located in the beautiful Columbia Valley. Museum exhibits trace the pople and events involved in the development of the CPR. Highlights include Steam Locomotive 5468 and a unique gift shop."

Postcard depicts CPR #5800 at Cambie, BC with a loaded coal train headed for Roberts Bank, BC.

Postcard depicts the "general view of the town facing west with the railway station in the foreground. Revelstoke became a divisional centre of the railway in 1889 and has increased in importance with the growth of the railway and the Trans-Canada Highway."

Postcard depicts a cairn "marking the spot where Canadian Pacific Railway was completed on November 7th, 1885. Twenty-eight miles west of Revelstoke, BC"

Postcard depicts a CPR unit coal train pulling out of "Revelstoke, BCon May 6, 1978 behind SD-40-2 Number 5845. This locomotive also controls four Mid-Train Slave Units require on this West bound loaded coal train."

Postcard depicts Sicamous Station and Hotel, circa 1910. "Sicamous became a favorite statring point for fishermen to the Shuswap Lake and junction for the fruit growing Okanagan Valley. The first station in Sicamous, built in 1890, burned down in 1900. A new one was built, modernized in 1908, and torn down in the 1960s."

Postcard depicts a view of the west-bound VIA Rail passenger train passing the Craigellachie Last Spike monument.

Postcard depicts "The Last Spike." On November 7, 1885, "a plain iron spike was driven by Donald Alexander Smith, welding east to west."

Postcard depicts the CPR bridge over the Columbia River.

Postcard depicts Mt, Begbie with railway and traffic bridges.

Postcard depicts Sicamous Hotel. Original built in 1898, but belived to have been burned down in 1908.

Postcard depicts the Kamloops CPR depot and gardens.

Postcard depicts Main Street (Victoria West) Kamloops in 1910.

Postcard depicts Main Street (Victoria West) Kamloops in 1910.

Postcard depicts a "4-4-0 woodburning locomotive at Shuswap Station, east of Kamloops, at the turn of the century. The completion of the CPR across the Continent, guaranteed B.C.'s entry into Cinfederation, as well as reg economic and cultural connection to the East."

Postcard depicts the Kamloops CPR depot and gardens.

Postcard depicts a "quartet pf GP9 locomotives headed by 8621 skirts Kamloops Lake, BCwith a merchandise freight. A beautiful day in 1965."