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              326 Archival description results for Kamloops, BC

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              Replacement rail bridge
              2013.6.36.1.091.02 · Item · Sept. 1998
              Part of David Davies Railway Collection

              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.

              New CN overpass
              2013.6.36.1.091.05 · Item · Sept. 1998
              Part of David Davies Railway Collection

              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.

              New CN overpass
              2013.6.36.1.091.07 · Item · Sept. 1998
              Part of David Davies Railway Collection

              Photograph depicts a new CN overpass in Campbell Creek. The new part of the Trans-Canada Highway beneath it had yet to be paved.

              New CN overpass
              2013.6.36.1.091.08 · Item · Sept. 1998
              Part of David Davies Railway Collection

              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.

              2013.6.36.1.092.03 · Item · 1 Mar. 1991
              Part of David Davies Railway Collection

              Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops. It was an 80 car hopper train carrying urea fertilizer. It derailed 28 cars and most were severely damaged. Ripped up 200 meteres of the track.

              2013.6.36.1.092.11 · Item · 1 Mar. 1991
              Part of David Davies Railway Collection

              Photograph depicts how wrecked cars were removed from the Brockelhurst derailment site using a CN rail crane and a rented Sterling Crane Co. crane, which was set up right beside the track. Here, the car was lifted from the side of the track and positioned above the rail track.

              2013.6.36.1.093.03 · Item · [May 1996]
              Part of David Davies Railway Collection

              Photograph depicts a spur located next to Pounder Emulsions Ltd. Electric capstan (Jeffrey Electric Co, Montreal) used to move full and empty tank cars of bitumen (for blacktops). Did not appear to be used.

              2013.6.36.1.093.08 · Item · Aug. 1995
              Part of David Davies Railway Collection

              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.

              Former roundhouse
              2013.6.36.1.094.06 · Item · Apr. 1991
              Part of David Davies Railway Collection

              Photograph depicts a CN roundhouse that was built in 1929 at the Kamloops Junction. It was demolished in November, 1993. The prime reason for its demolition was not wanting to pay local taxes on a building rarely used for anything except for motor vehicles, general temporary storage, etc.

              Turntable in Kamloops
              2013.6.36.1.095.02 · Item · Oct. 1995
              Part of David Davies Railway Collection

              Photograph depicts a turntable located at the CN Junction in Kamloops. It was strpped of rails and decking prior to being lifted out of the well.