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CNR Victoria
2013.6.36.1.044.08 · Item · Aug. 1971
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the former line from the CNR yards in downtown Victoria. Taken from Boleskine Road overbridge, looking north.

CNR Victoria
2013.6.36.1.044.14 · Item · [July 1982]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a track located beyond a road covered in dense bushes. The rail in the foreground is dated 1918 and 1912. Image captured on Jacklin road, estimated to be on mile 9.2 in the former Cowichan Subdivision.

CNR Victoria
2013.6.36.1.044.03 · Item · [14 July 1968]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the CNR main line from Victoria to Duncan. Image captured looking south from Gorge Road towards a Selkirk water trestle. The line behind the camera was in regular use to the Cedar Hill Grass Roads spur. The main line beside the Island highway ran west out of Victoria.

CNR Victoria
2013.6.36.1.044.06 · Item · [26 May 1968]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the entrance to the CNR yards on the west side of the Selkirk waterfront in Victoria. A trestle bridge is immediately behind the camera.

CNR Victoria
2013.6.36.1.044.10 · Item · [July 1982]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken on Jacklin Road in the former Cowichan Subdivision. With a few exceptions of short length removals, trackage of the Subdivision remained intact in metro Victoria. It was last used in regular service in September 1965.

CNR Victoria
2013.6.36.1.044.07 · Item · [26 May 1968]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the end of the trackage near Cedar Hill Cross Road and Borden Road in Saanich. This line was formerly part of the Victoria to Sidney line built by the Canadian Northern Pacific in 1913-1914.

CNR terminal yard, Victoria
2013.6.36.1.059.17 · Item · [23 May 1971]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a Hillcrest Lumber Co. steam crane that was acquired by Terry Fergusan and was moved from Mesachie Lake, Cowichan. It was put to use on the tourist attraction railway, the "Victoria-Pacific," that was created in 1971.

CNR rail barge, Victoria
2013.6.36.1.055.39 · Item · [26 May 1968]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a laid up CNR raikl car ferry called the "Canora." It had been tied to the CN pier in Vancouver for the winter of 1967/68, but its berth was needed for cruise steamers.

2013.6.36.1.059.18 · Item · [23 May 1971]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a car that used to be on the "Victoria-Pacific Railway" tourist steam train, owned by Terry Ferguson. It was built in 1890 as a sleeping car by Barry and Smythe (USA). Originally named "Sherbrooke," it worked on the Montreal-Halifax run. It was rebuilt in 1910 as a private car and then became superintendent's car #16 in Lethbridge and was sold by the CPR to WCRA in 1963.

CNR bascule bridge
2013.6.36.1.156.01 · Item · Apr. 1993
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a CNR bascule bridge across the upper waters of Victoria Harbour. The rest of the trackage had been removed, except for the bridge itself.