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Photograph depicts the CPR Esquimalt & Nanaimo Depot in Victoria, Vancouver Island. One car "R.D.C" unit is pullling out right on time at 8:30 a.m. for a 139 mile trip to Courtenay which arrives there at 12.40 hrs. The car behind the "R.D.C" is a CPR #4 and is not attached.

Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway which carried over Colwood road and the former Canadian National Railway Vancouver Island line on the outskirts of western Victoria.

Photograph depicts an overbridge of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway on the northern outskirts of Victoria which was at one point close to where the island highway and Colwood roads diverge.

Photograph depicts the CPR Victoria yards. Picture displays former tender as (fire) water carrier #415740.

Photograph depicts the Victoria rail yards. The photograph faces east at the turntable and locomotive shed/roundhouse. 3 or 4 stalls are occupied.

Photograph depicts possibly the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway train shipment sheds. They do not look to be in regular use. The photograph faces towards the east.

Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yards in Victoria. Caboose CPR #437275 ("BH" June 1946) and tank fire car #415833 are both displayed.

Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yards in Victoria. #6702 pulling box car is being switched. A car down State Street is visible. Photograph taken on the east side of the upper inner harbour.

Photo was taken approximately five minutes north of Duncan, Vancouver Island. A track crane is visible.

Photo was taken approximately five minutes north of Duncan, Vancouver Island. A work train on the siding, including a steel passenger car #411292 are visible.

Photograph depicts the a sign about 200 yards away from depot aadjacent to the Island highway. It was probably erected within the last 9 months as a result of the Canadian Transport Commission's investigation of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway in late 1970. Amongst the other structures there is a lack of sign posting, dirty and unkept stations, and active discouragement of passenger traffic.

Photograph depicts the north end of the CPR yard in Duncan, Vancouver Island. CPR car #411264, formerly called the "North Portal" and an old box car #404061 are visible.

Photograph depicts the Ladysmith depot on mile 58.4. Image captured looking north.

Photograph depicts Goldstream station on mile 10.7. The section house is deserted and derelict. Image captured looking towards the south east towards Victoria. At this point, the grade begins to steepen to climb the Malahat.

Photograph taken at Chemainus. The station is just behind the camera. The south bound train is visible and it is is just picking up speed, travelling back to Victoria. Time is 4:00 p.m. The train is well patronized.

Photograph taken just north of Shawnigan station. Image captured looking south at the rear of the daily passenger train returning to Victoria. This make the time at around 4:45 p.m. and the mileage is about 28.0. The rails are Algoma and weigh 80 Ibs. They are dated 1914 and 1920.

Photo is taken about half a mile south of Duncan's station on mile 39.2. The image captures the 'Antique' bridge on Cowichan River. It is possibly made out of wrought iron. It is made by Phoenix Iron Company, Philadelphia.

Photograph depicts the Cobble Hill station on mile 31.2. Image captured looking north west. Siding has the capacity for 26 cars and was being used for storage. The northbound daily pass train is expected at 9:15 a.m. and the southbound is expected at 16:41 p.m.

Photograph depicts the crossing at Cowichan River, south of Duncan at approximately mile 39.2. The bridge is frabricated by Pheonix Iron Company, Philadelphia. It has unusual construction materials.

Photograph taken on mile 85 which is about 15 miles north of Nanaimo and on the edge of Nanoose Bay. Image captured looking towards the south. The retreating "Dayliner" can be seen in the distance.

Photograph depicts the Buckley Bay flag stop on mile 126. Jan and Susan Davies are seen on the extreme left and right. This location allows passengers access to the ferry to Denman and Hornby Islands.

Photograph taken at the Port Alberni depot on mile 38.8. Trackage continued as a spur for another three-quarters of a mile to a sawmill and wharf.

Photograph taken on mile 105. Image captured looking towards the north. A daily passenger train of 2 Budd cars is passing.

Photograph taken at the Parksville depot. Image captures a speeder departing for Alberni, or at some point on that branch. In 1975, it was on the main line as a result of the closure of the main line to Courtenay issued on 30 June 1975.

Photograph taken at the Port Alberni subdivision. Passing loop is found on mile 31.7 from the Parksville junction. At the grade between Summit and Alberni, the line makes a considerable detour.

Photograph taken on the outskirts of Courtenay. The only spur was found on the train, not in the yard of the depot. It held four gondolas and 2 propane tanks cars.

Photograph taken in Courtenay, on mile 139. 7, at the end of the railway line. Details of the end of spur stop are visible.

Photograph depicts a dayliner on a return trip from Courtenay to Victoria. Track at this point skirts Nanoose Bay about 15 miles north of Nanaimo.

Photograph taken at the Cowichan Lake branchline, about 1 1/2-2 miles east of the Cowichan Lake depot. The position of the tank indictates that it is full.

Photograph taken at the Great Northern Railway connection from its terminal yards to its wharf on Vancouver Harbour or the connection with CPR. Image captured crossing Powell Street, looking southward, north of Glen Drive, Vancouver.

Photograph depicts a westbound train, the Super Continental, standing at the Boston Bar depot. Image captured looking southward.

Photograph depicts a passenger train, the Super Continental. The train had stopped for a locomotive crew change.

Photo possibly taken in Fraser Canyon. Image depicts an old CNR locomotive #71082.

Photograph depicts the grade crossing at Topham Road in the community of Walnut Grove within Langley, BC

Photograph depicts a water tank car, #80097. The top view, from the rear end shows 6 filling holes (3 pairs) covered by wood foot boards and an empty coal bunker can be seen beyond.

Photograph taken at about 2 miles west of Hope. The visible crossing here leads to the airport in Hope. The track further west of this was being laid in a continous welded rail.

Photograph depicts the passenger station in Fort Langley. Davies notes that one of the rooms in the station used to be a communications office. The rest of the of the building was disused and some rooms were in shambles.

Photograph depicts a Port Mann wreck train standing on siding to allow westbound grain trains to pass by and then to be propelled back to a working site of a wreck 2 miles north in Fraser Canyon. On February 28, a freight ran into a slide and fell upright into ice at the rivers edge. About 8 cars were destroyed in a fire.

Photograph depicts a bridge on the north Thompson River in Kamloops.

Photograph taken at the spur on the south end of the Kamloops Indian Reserve and on the northern side of the South Thompson River. Image captured looking westward with the Red Bridge in the foreground.

Photograph taken at the Kamloops CNR junction. Image displays a Jordan speaker and 13 dump cars.

Photograph depicts a freshly painted de-rail in an infrequently used part of the Kamloops CNR yard.

Photograph depicts a damaged box car on a flat car at the Kamloops depot.

Photograph depicts double tracking that was in progress. Existing siding was about to be spliced into a new south bound track.

Photograph depicts a tool generator car. Image captures part of a five car work train containing: a gondola, tool car, box car, bunk, as well as a depressed flat car to carry a bulldozer.

Photograph taken at about mile 96.9 (from Jasper), Albeda Sub Division. The visible turning wye had been recently used, possibly by crate trains that Davies had spotted earlier at the location.

Photograph depicts a CN passenger car that had now become a work crew car.