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Photograph depicts the Canadian National Railway (CN) Kamloops Junction depot, facing east. The single line spur to Kamloops is about two miles long.

Photograph depicts one of the earlier brick buildings beside the river, sited opposite the sternwheeler landing pier. It is called Commercial Block and was built in 1897.

Photograph depicts an old wooden CPR caboose, formerly #436919, at Kamloops. It was built in 1928 and has sat unmoved for 2 or 3 years. By 1981 it had disappeared.

Photograph depicts an old wagon at a ranch on the east side of Peterson Creek.

Photograph depicts air tanker fire base of the BC Forest Service. Manufactured by Conair Aviation Ltd.

Photograph depicts air tanker fire base of the BC Forest Service. Manufactured by Conair Aviation Ltd.

Photograph depicts air tanker fire base of the BC Forest Service. Manufactured by Conair Aviation Ltd.

Photograph depicts the Okanagan CN Subdivision in Kamloops. Immediately east of Red Bridge.

Photograph depicts a Sperry Rail Service inspection car that had broken down in the CPR Kamloops yard. Car #127 was built in 1927 as a gas electric car for Boston and Maine R.R. It was modernized in 1989.

Photograph depicts the CNR Kamloops Junction.

Photograph depicts a ballast packing machine found at the CN Kamloops Junction.

Photograph depicts a CN Track Geometry 'Test" car for Western Canada. Built in 1954 as "Cape Race." In 1983 it was a VIA sleeper/buffet/lounge.

Photograph depicts a CN Track Geometry 'Test" car for Western Canada. Built in 1954 as "Cape Race." In 1983 it was a VIA sleeper/buffet/lounge.

Photograph depicts the CNR depot in downtown Kamloops. Taken after it its refurbishment and landscaping.

Photograph depicts part of a ballast removal and cleaning special train at the CN Kamloops Junction.

Photograph depicts a Lafarge cement loading spur.

Photograph taken on the track connecting the CPR line with the CN Kamloops depot. Image captured looking towards the east, adjacent to Pioneer Park.

Photograph taken one mile north of Heffley. Davies notes new grade double tracking had been completed after starting in the spring of 1981.

Photograph depicts a rail grinding car set at the CNR depot in Kamloops.

Photograph taken at the Campbell Creek Industrial Park in Kamloops. Depicts the CNR end of head shunt. The connection with the Okanagan Branch is found in the middle distance.

The building of this spur in 1977 was a late and short lived attempt to move yearling cattle to Ontario for fattening by rail. The Last stock train ran in 1985. The CN rail track was still in use in August 1998. This photograph shows the spur running east and down grade to a stockyard owned by BC Interior Cattlemen's Association. Additional information is available in article, "Moving Livestock by Rail: An inquiry into an extinct traffic" in The Sandhouse journal, Issue 121, Spring 2006.

Photograph taken at the Campbell Creek Industrial Park in Kamloops. Visible CNR track was to be inactive by August 1998.

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.

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

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 wheel sets being loaded into ballast cars.

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

Photograph depicts Beaver Trucking located on Kamloops Indian Reserve No. 1 on Tk'emlups te Secwepemc territory, Kamloops, BC. It had been a company since 1990 and received 2 or 3 boxcars weekly loaded with items from Toronto that were then delivered around town. Davies later noted that the business was destroyed by arson in 1997.

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

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 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 found at the CN Kamloops Junction.

Photograph depicts a crane found at the CN Kamloops Junction.

Photograph depicts the rear end of the first train of the 1994 season for the Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours at the CN Downtown Depot in Kamloops.

Photograph depicts a spare locomotive for Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours.

Photograph depicts train master Al Wingrave in a caboose stationed at the Kamloops Junction. Undergoing speed checks on the Clearwater Subdivision.

Photograph depicts deck details of an idle car. A small cabin was behind the camera. Side bins appeared to be tender remnants.

Photograph depicts sample lettering that read "Canadian National Kamloops Auxiliary."

Photograph depicts a spare crane and an idler car.

Photograph depicts a spare crane and an idler car.

Photograph depicts the end view of a cable/hose car.

Photograph depicts CN caboose #77018.

Photograph depicts a CN bunk car labelled "Kamloops Auxiliary Capmens Bunk."

Photograph depicts a CN car carrying logs.

Photograph depicts a CN Kamloops Auxiliary car carrying logs.

Photograph depicts CPR cabooses travelling in the eastern outskirts of Kamloops.

Photograph depicts a CPR spur leading into a lumber reload facility in Campbell Creek, east of Kamloops.

Photograph depicts a private vehicle that used to hold right-of-way scrap.