File consists of material regarding BC Rail luxury tourist train tours, such as the Cariboo Prospector, the Whistler Explorer, and the Pacific Starlight. All services ended in 2002. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, pamphlets, and clippings from periodicals.
File consists of material regarding the West Coast Railway Association and the Squamish Railway Heritage Park. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, pamphlets, and clippings from periodicals. Includes a 2003 "Official Souvenir Guide of the West Coast Railway Heritage Park".
Photograph depicts the CNR Kamloops Junction.
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 private vehicle that used to hold right-of-way scrap.
Photograph depicts a southbound Rocky Mountaineer train coming into the CN Kamlops Junction. Included about 8 empty cars.
Photograph depicts a Rocky Mountaineer train with a propelling locomotive short distance away approaching Chilcoltin Road, Kamloops Indian Reserve. St. Joseph's Church is on the left.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of CNR changes in 1998 in Kelowna, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts the downtown area in which prior to 1998, the CNR had a loop. It ran west beside Clement and after crossing over Ellis, turned north for a couple of blocks, then turned east, back over Ellis, and along Recreation Street and Weddell.
Photograph depicts a sawmill at the edge of Okanagan Lake at the north end of downtown Kelowna. The end of a chip loading spur is visible on the left.
Photograph depicts a disused depot at Ellis and Clement. Taken from Ellis, looking east. Track was an isolated piece between St. Paul Street and Ellis and had been subsequently removed. Davies notes the vague talk at the time of converting the building into a railway centre
Photograph depicts a CN turntable pit in Boston Bar.
Photograph depicts CN car #55402, built in 1935.
Photograph depicts CN car #55402, built in 1935.
Photograph depicts a CN rail car that was either for sale or scrapping.
Photograph depicts what Davies noted to be a rare sight to be on a train. Visible are CPR way freight between Lumby and Vernon, travelling to Vernon. 31 of them built at CPR Angus shops in 1976. Only 10 survived at the beginning of 1997.
File consists of a publication by Dan and Sandra Langford entitled "Cycling the Kettle Valley Railway".
Map depicts the route of BC Rail and its connecting rail lines.
Photo depics the CNR Kamloops Junction.
Photograph depicts a new concrete bridge being constructed. The old one is one the right.
File consists of research material relating to the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway bridge at Prince George. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "Not 'A Bridge Too Far' But One Far Enough, or, How the G.T.P. Crossed the Fraser at Prince George, British Columbia" by Davies; "Date Plotting Chart, CN Bridge--Prince George" by Davies; copied extracts from a field pocket book of J.G. Legrand, Chief Bridge Engineer; and "Building Bridge Substructures on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway" by Ruegnitz. Also includes a 1998 Rand McNally Prince George city map.
File consists of a publication by Eric L. Johnson entitled "The Sea-to-Sky Gold Rush Route: A Guide to the Scenic Railway of the White Pass".
File consists of general material regarding steam and diesel industrial railway locomotives. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about various industrial locomotives, such as those manufactured by Plymouth, General Electric, Davenport, Whitcomb, Vulcan Iron Works, Baldwin, Trackmobile, Dominion, and others. Also includes the following works: "Mining and Tunnelling Locomotives in British Columbia Today" by Mervyn T. Green; "Industrial Strength Railfanning" by Fred Clark; "Non-Steam Industrial Locomotives of B.C.: Part 1 and Introduction" by Jeremy Lambert; "Fort George Railway"; "Gen-set Units Make the Scene on Vancouver Waterfront"; and "List (Incomplete) of Narrow Gauge Locomotives Used by Contractors Building Railways in BC in period 1905-1925" compiled by Davies.
Photograph depicts a new CN overpass in Campbell Creek. Looking at new eastbound lane of the Trans Canada Highway. It was all paid for by the Provincial Department of Highways in order to convert the 2 lanes into 4 in order to improve visibility and stretch the highway.
Photograph depicts a new bridge on the CNR Okanagan Branch. The old steel bridge on the right had been dismantled.
Photograph depicts a Rocky Mountaineer train proceeding westward onto the North Thompson bridge. It was then propelled down to the branch to downtown Kamloops.
Photograph depicts a southbound Rocky Mountaineer train coming into the CN Kamlops Junction. Included about 8 empty cars.
Photograph depicts a Rocky Mountaineer train with a propelling locomotive short distance away approaching Chilcoltin Road, Kamloops Indian Reserve.
Photograph depicts a Rocky Mountaineer train with a propelling locomotive short distance away approaching Chilcoltin Road, Kamloops Indian Reserve.
Photograph depicts a BCR snow plow on a spur located opposite a former Squamish depot that was burned down. All the windows of the snow equipment in front of the plow were broken by vandals, so there was spare service for winter operations.
Photograph taken looking west towards a lake. Davies notes that the reason for this visible particular configuration is that the CNR and the CPR yards used to be west of Ellis. At the time the photograph was taken, such land was needed for better development, e.g. hotels, high rise residences, sports area, etc.
Photograph depicts disused CN track that had been promised to Kamloops Heritage Railway.
Photograph depicts a CN rail car that was either for sale or scrapping.
Photograph depicts a one of a kind CN track trolley that was either for sale or scrap.
Photograph depicts the CNR depot in downtown Kamloops. Taken after it its refurbishment and landscaping.
Photograph depicts a CN bridge crossing over the Fraser River. Details of the draw span captured.
Photograph depicts a print taken fron a slide supplied by a professional photographer, Al Harvey. Captures a CN bridge crossing over the Fraser River.
File consists of photocopied Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway (E&N) timetables. Includes time table 17 (6 Aug. 1914); time table 20 (16 May 1920); time table 6 (28 Apr. 1963); and a public time table (24 Sept. 1950).
Photograph depicts the CNR depot in downtown Kamloops. Taken after it its refurbishment and landscaping.
Photograph depicts a CPR spur leading into a lumber reload facility in Campbell Creek, east of Kamloops.
Photograph depicts a CN bridge crossing over the Fraser River.
Photograph depicts a CN bridge crossing over the Fraser River.
File consists of a book by Graeme Pole entitled "The Spiral Tunnels and the Big Hill: A Canadian Railway Adventure".
Photograph depicts a CN bridge crossing over the Fraser River. Details of the draw span captured.
Photograph depicts a B.C. Telephone book with a CN bridge crossing the Fraser River featured on its cover.
Photograph depicts a loaded coal train en rout to Prince Rupert travelling on a CN bridge that crossed over the Fraser River.
Photograph depicts bascule bridges in the inner harbour of Victoria. Property of EN. In the process of being repaired and painted.
Photograph depicts an abandoned CPR grade near Christina Lake. Rockwork was built in 1898 which was quite rare.
Photograph depicts a CPR snow plow, built in 1921, and a Jordan spreader, dated 1959. Both found opposite the Kamloops CPR depot.