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Photograph taken in Williams Lake. A Vancouver bound passenger train on BC Rail (former Pacific Great Eastern) track is visible.

Photograph depicts gondolas that are in storage due to the poor economy in 1982.

Photograph taken in Britannia Beach looking at the Ana-Canada Britannia Mines Ltd. Image captured the view of the concentrated ore dock with BC Rail in the foreground. The mine was closed on November 1, 1974.

Photograph depicts the end view of northbound freight in Britannia Beach. Britannia Copper Mine is located to the right of the image.

Photograph depicts northbound freight in Britannia Beach.

Photograph depicts a switcher and a way freight locomotive that was stationed in Fort St. James. The passenger train ran from Driftwood to Fort St. James.

Photograph depicts a caboose and a flat car that was built in 1956.

Photograph depicts work cars adjacent to the north portal of the recently (1974) opened tunnel at Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver. Visible is a train standing on what was formerly the main line of the track.

Photograph depicts various work spurs. The spur on the left of the image is a work train, behind it is a running loop. The spur on the right led to a gravel pile. Not shown is the spur which was used for loading equipment like carts and shovels.

Photograph depicts a gravel filled spur. A train of about a dozen hopper cars are being loaded.

Photograph depicts a gravel filled spur. A train of about a dozen hopper cars are being loaded by locomotive # 625.

Photograph depicts the Lone Butte flag station.

Photograph depicts various spurs. One spur was for a work crew train, another led to a gravel pile as well as one which was located at the far end and was for loading heavy equipment onto flat cars. A passing loop to the main line can be seen in the background.

Photograph depicts a ballast pit (possibly of volcanic shale). A ballast/work train is visible on the main track.

Photograph taken looking northbound at the BC Rail station in Pemberton.

Photograph depicts log cars on a siding.

Photograph depicts a speeder proceeding north to Squamish. Davies notes that it was easier to lift a speeder over the blades than work the switch.

Photograph depicts a few speeders passing by. The one on the right is preceding southbound freight. Siding has the capacity for 55 cars.

Photograph depicts a southbound freight headed by locomotive #714. The speeder on the siding was headed northbound.

Photograph taken at the passenger depot in Prince George, sited on a dead-end spur. It is situated in an industrial park some miles away from the city centre.

Photograph depicts northbound freight in Britannia Beach. A concentrator (copper) of Ana-Canada Company is found in the background.

Photograph depicts derelict bunk and cook cars of the former Pacific Great Eastern. Found on the siding of at the yards in Squamish. Car #990224 appears originally to have been an electric interurban car.

Photograph depicts work car #6406 in the Squamish yards.

Photograph depicts the yards in Williams Lake. Image captured on the new overpass that was being constructed at the time.

Photograph depicts a northbound 4 unit Budd passenger train at the flag stop in Australian, BC.

Photograph depicts a Pacific Great Eastern trestle.

Photograph depicts a trestle near Australian, BC on mile 364. Visible is a northbound freight of 2 locomotives and about 60 cars.

Photograph depicts a Pacific Great Eastern ballast car which was built in 1955 by Eastern Car Company in Trenton, Nova Scotia.

Photograph depicts a section house, track motor shed, and a disused bunk house and supplies shed which are property of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway.

Photograph depicts a steel works car with an open end for ties and other material.

Photograph depicts an inspection speeder passing Jordans which was near the Whistler Mountain ski lift.

Photo displays the Pacific Great Eatern Railway depot in Kelly Lake on mile 192.7.

Photograph depicts the remains of Pacific Great Eastern trackage beside a primitive small grain elevator laeding off at the end of the "Y" at Kelly Lake. It was probably not in use for the past 20 or 30 years, as of 1972.

Photograph depicts gondola cars sitting on a turning Y, unloaded, and covered with plastic. They were awaiting switching to an ore mine loading loop about 5 miles up the line.

Photograph depicts a southbound Budd car train about to deport.

Photograph depicts an auxillary car with a powered winch found at the Pacific Great Eastern yards in Lillooet. Inside the roundhouse in the background was a boiler room that contained a locomotive boiler in working order.

Photograph taken on mile 178.0. Depicts a work train on a spur with a water tank car.

Photograph taken loooking southwards, down the Fraser Canyon, between Pavilion and Lillooet. Visible is a northbound Budd car going slowly up a steep grade.

Photograph depicts a work train on a spur. Taken from the shelter of the depot in Pavilion.

Photograph depicts a disused snow plow #6001 that was built of wood. Snow plough #6002 is found behind.

Photograph location is unknown, but Davies stated it to be possibly somewhere north of Quesnel. A bridge is visible.

Photograph depicts a chip car #9581 loading at a sawmill on the northern outskirts of Quesnel.

Photograph depicts a down freight of 75 cars passing under the Quesnel to Barkerville road about 4 miles out of Quesnel.

Photograph taken at the Pacific Great Eastern depot in Quesnel.

Photograph taken at Red Rock which is 18 miles south of Prince George. Image depicts a steam crane marked #4 and owned by United Rentals Ltd., Nanaimo, forming part of a pile driving work train.

Photograph taken at Red Rock which is 18 miles south of Prince George. Image displays part of a pile driving work train owned by United Rentals Ltd. of Nanaimo. A tender and a steam crane #4 for pile driving are also visible.

Photograph depicts a passing loop from main traffic as well as a spur for work cars and one frieght unloading loop (a box car on the left is standing on it).

Photo displays a quickly disappearing Pacific Great Eastern logo. Davies found it on a tool car of a track maintenance train.

Photograph depicts the Buntain's flag station on the eastern shore of Anderson Lake and about a mile from the depot in Seton Portage. The flag station was created in 1968.

Photograph depicts the Bridge River Hydro Power Station on the edge of Seton Lake. A BC Hydro First Aid trolley with a heater connection was plugged in. The train was the fastest method to get an injured person to Lillooet from Shalalth as it was about 16 miles by rail in comparison to 50 miles by uneven dirt road. Ordinary PGE trollies were used by injured civilians between D'Arcy and Lillooet as it was the quickest method of evacuation.