File consists of research material regarding train handling, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on directional running of trains, end-of-train devices, caboose handling, pushers, and other aspects.
File consists of a publication by Garry W. Anderson entitled "Canadian Pacific's Trans-Canada Limited (1919-1930)".
File consists of research material regarding unit freight trains that carry a single commodity, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on container freight, intermodal cars, until coal trains, piggyback operations, and CN's unit trains.
File consists of research material regarding freight trains, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on CNR freight and mixed train service, freight tonnage, freight scheduling, and train numbers.
File consists of research material regarding named passenger trains, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on CP's The Canadian, CP's The Dominion, CN's Continental Limited, PGE's North Country Limited, and CN's Super Continental.
File consists of research material regarding the practical aspects of operating passenger trains, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on equipment, running, maintenance, routes, speeds, and car weights. Also provides visuals of various passenger trains.
Series consists of material regarding various train types and uses, including passenger trains and freight trains. Also includes information about train handling, train yards, and switching.
File consists of an original "Collective Agreement between Canadian Pacific Limited and the Canadian Council of Railway Operating Unions (BLE) on behalf of the Locomotive Engineers employed in Canada on CP Rail".
File consists of an original copy of CP Rail's "General Operating Instructions", CS44.
File consists of an original "General Instructions to Passenger Train Conductors and Trainmen--CN Rail, CP Rail, VIA Rail Canada".
File consists of an original "Agreement between the British Columbia Railway Company and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Cariboo Lodge No. 221, Lillooet Lodge No. 215 and Summit Lodge No. 252 Governing the Working Conditions and Compensation of Employees Employed on the British Columbia Railway Company, Revision 1975".
File consists of an original "Rates of Pay and Rules Governing Services of Maintenance of Way Employees", consisting of Wage Agreement no. 17, reprinted and effective January 1, 1975, between the following railways: CNR, CPR, E&N and others.
File consists of an original "Collective Agreement between Canadian Pacific Railway Company and United Transportation Union on behalf of the Conductors, Baggagemen, Brakemen, Yardmen, and Switchtenders employed on the Prairie & Pacific Regions (including Esquimalt and Nanaimo Rwy.)" effective January 1971.
File consists of an original "Collective Agreements between the Canadian National Railway Company Prairie and Mountain Regions and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen on behalf of Conductors, Baggagemen, Flagmen, Brakemen" updated to May 1967.
File consists of an original "Uniform Code of Operating Rules, Revision of 1962" effective October 28th, 1962 and "approved and prescribed by the Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada by General order no. 873, dated the 15th day of November, 1961".
File consists of an original "Operating rules [for] Canadian National Railways, Grand Trunk Railway System, Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway, Central Vermont Railway, dated July 1st, 1929".
File consists of research material regarding railway management practices and personnel, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on the CPR management attitude change in 2012 with Hunter Harrison, enforcement of rules, railway discipline, demerit marks (Brownie points), railway decline, and the culture of change.
File consists of research material regarding railway job categories and job titles, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on conductors, dispatchers, builders, section men, call boys, brakemen, foremen, baggagemen, and others.
File consists of research material regarding railway labour relations and unions, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on the unionization process, the United Brotherhood of Railway Employees, the May 2012 CPR Rail Strike, the June 2011 lock-out by Rocky Mountain Railtours, the July 2009 VIA Rail Strike, the 1990 BC Rail strike, collective agreements, railway employee wages, and employee seniority. Also includes a copy of a "Master Agreement dated Montreal, September 27, 1979 between the Railway Association of Canada...and the Railway Employees Department...re: Application of Wage Increases...and other changes covering the years 1979, 1980, and 1981".
File consists of research material regarding railway training, safety, and recruitment, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on sleep deprivation, training courses, train simulators, and safety regulations. Also includes recruitment advertisements.
File consists of research material regarding railway work forces, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on locomotive engineer qualification, work ethic, rail employee rulebooks, pensions, uniforms, and retired railroaders. Also includes a mimeograph of "The Tailend Trainman" by Conductor Anonymous, 1965.
Series consists of material regarding railway employees and work force. Includes information about training, safety, recruitment, labour relations, railway unions, job titles, managers, pay scales, and uniforms. Also includes collective agreements and operating rules for employees.
File consists of the "Canadian Rail Operating Rules (CROR)", a 1996 Canadian Pacific Railway publication.
File consists of a CN Train Order Book. Includes front cover and a few blank pages that include information about the book and train orders.
File consists of research material regarding 21st century developments in controlling train movement, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on positive train control, microwave communication systems, and the LEADER system.
File consists of research material regarding railroad communication signals, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on universal hand signals, locomotive whistles, and train markers/train lanterns.
File consists of research material regarding train signalling, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on use of semaphore, searchlights, signal bridges, meanings of signal indications, ball signals, and smash boards.
File consists of research material regarding train order stations, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on train order boards, hooping up, and throwing down.
File consists of research material regarding transmission of orders, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on telegraphs, telephone systems, radio frequencies, and railway time. Also includes the following articles: "Information on Railway Time Service and Watch-Clock Standards" by Kushnir; "Railroad Pocket Watched in Canada" by Angus; and "CPR Connaught Tunnel and Electric Token Block System" by Davies.
File consists of research material regarding control systems, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on dispatching, schedules, bulletins, Centralized Traffic Control (CTC), and Automatic Block Signal (ABS). Also includes an article by Al Lill entitled "Dispatching on the CNR's Yale Subdivision".
Series consists of material regarding the control of movement on British Columbia railways. Includes information about control systems, dispatching, schedules, telegraph lines, telephone systems, radio, timing, train orders, semaphore, searchlight, train whistles, and computer systems.
File consists of VIA Rail public timetables from 1976-1977, 1979, 1985, and 1996. Also includes an E&N Railiner timetable from 2001.
File consists of a Burlington Northern public timetables from 1970 and a ticket stub from a last trip ride.
File consists of Great Northern Railway public timetables. Includes passenger schedules for 1964, 1966, and 1967.
File consists of Canadian Pacific Railway public timetables. Includes Dayliner schedules for 1964 and 1969; an Okanagan bus connection schedule for 1965-1966; and CP Rail timetables for 1964, 1966, 1969-1970, and 1975.
File consists of Canadian National Railway public timetables. Includes passenger schedules for 1964-1965, 1967-1968, 1971, 1973, and 1974-1975.
File consists of Pacific Great Eastern and BC Rail public timetables. Includes passenger schedules for 1957, 1964-1967, 1971-1972, 1974, and 1989.
File consists of background articles on railway passenger time tables.
Series consists of public timetables for the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, BC Rail, the CNR, the CPR, the Great Northern Railway, the Burlington Northern Railway, and VIA Rail.
File consists of two volumes of the publication by Roger G. Burrows entitled "Railway Mileposts: British Columbia". Includes "Volume I: The CPR Mainline Route from the Rockies to the Pacific including the Okanagan Routes and the CN's Canyon Route" and "Volume II: The Southern Routes from the Crowsnest to the Coquihalla including the Great Northern and Kettle Valley Routes".
File consists of BC Rail Port Subdivision timetables 101 (27 Nov. 1983) and 103 (25 Oct. 1987).
File consists of a British Columbia Harbours Board Railway timetable 6 (28 Oct. 1979).
File consists of British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority Railway Division timetable 81 (16 June 1968) and timetable 95A (6 Dec. 1987). Also includes a First District Time Table No. 75.
File consists of Burlington Northern Railway timetables. Includes Seattle Region timetable 10 (29 Apr. 1973) and Special Instructions no. 3 (11 June 1972). Also includes a Northern Corridor timetable No. 1 (1 Jan. 1993).
File consists of photocopied excerpts of Great Northern Railway employee timetables from 1909, 1913, 1918, 1924, and 1931. Also includes an original GNR Cascade Division timetable 104 (31 Oct. 1965).
File consists of background material on railway employee timetables.
Subseries consists of Great Northern Railway employee timetables and schedules. Also includes employee timetables for the Burlington Northern Railway, the BC Electric Railway, and the BC Harbours Board Railway.
File consists of original BC Rail timetables 5 (3 Apr. 1994), 6 (1 Apr. 1995), 10 (14 June 1998) and 12 (3 July 2003).
File consists of original BC Rail timetables 16 (26 Oct. 1986), 17 (10 May 1987), 19 (24 Apr. 1988), and 23 (13 May 1990).
File consists of an original BC Rail timetable 3 (23 Nov. 1975).