Photograph depicts a free aerial car ferry crossing over the Fraser River. It took 1 car at a time and was in perpetual use at the time Davies crossed.
Boston Bar, BC
30 Archival description results for Boston Bar, BC
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of CNR maintenance of way equipment in Boston Bar, British Columbia.
This Canadian National Railways (CNR) Office of the Locomotive Foreman (Boston Bar) log book from 1958-1960 contains daily descriptions of weather, train timings, inspections, and issues arising. Also includes accountings of diesel units arriving and departing at Boston Bar.
This Canadian National Railways trip passes book is believed to have been created and maintained by the Office of the Locomotive Foreman (Boston Bar). CNR pensioners, employees, and employee dependents were eligible for types of trip passes for travel on CNR trains (annual, long service, and trip passes). The use of these passes were recorded in this log book, organized alphabetically by the last name of the employee with alphabetical dividers. Each employee's section includes the employee's starting date of employment, pass destination information, the pass number provided, the date the pass was received, and the signature of the traveller. Some employee sections also contain inserted CNR pass forms and other inserted documentation that include personal information. Numerous other textual materials have been inserted at the beginning and end of the log book, including CNR circulars, policy documents, blank forms, and inter-departmental correspondence regarding pass policies as well as inquiries about specific employees.
Photograph depicts the Boston Bar CN depot that once was a dismissal point of some importance that had a roundhouse, turntable, etc. The depot was now empty, awaiting a purchase.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of CN in Boston Bar, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts CN car #55402, built in 1935.
Photograph depicts CN car #55402, built in 1935.
Photograph depicts a locomotive crew change point in Boston Bar. Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours train visible.
Photograph depicts a locomotive crow change point in Boston Bar. Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours passing eastbound. The depot was abandoned and up for sale.
Photograph depicts a locomotive crew change point in Boston Bar. Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours train visible.
Photograph depicts disused CN track that had been promised to Kamloops Heritage Railway.
Photograph depicts a CN turntable pit in Boston Bar.
Photograph depicts train #1, the Super Continental, headed westbound, that was just entering the Boston Bar depot. Image captured looking southward.
Photograph depicts a westbound train, the Super Continental, standing at the Boston Bar depot. Its engineer made no attempt to pull the passenger cars in order to face the depot. As a consequence, 3 locomotives and 4 baggage cars occupied the platform area and the rest of the cars covered the grade crossing and track to the north.
Photograph depicts a former house about 200 yards south of the depot on the eastern side of the main track.
Photograph taken at the Boston Bar depot. Image captured looking towards the north. Sign on the depot says "Restaurant" (which was defunct) and "Boston Bar: 2802 miles Montreal, 132 miles Vancouver."
Photograph depicts a westbound train, the Super Continental, standing at the Boston Bar depot. Image captured looking northward.
Photograph depicts a fire fighting tender that displays an older CNR insignia.
Photograph depicts the three long distance westbound freights being held by the Super Continetal, a westbound train.
Photograph depicts a westbound train, the Super Continental, standing at the Boston Bar depot. Image captured looking southward.
Photograph depicts a passenger train, the Super Continental. The train had stopped for a locomotive crew change.
Photograph depicts a CNR caboose, possibly near Boston Bar.
Photograph depicts a CNR caboose labelled "For Engineering Use." Spotted on a spur behind several ballast cars labelled "Branch Line Rehabilitation."
Photograph depicts a CNR tractor, an old piece of Maintenance of Way equipment coverted to haul equipment required to run at low speeds. It also saved switchers.
Photograph depicts equipment that says "Fairmont Tamper," but Davies states that it must be a ballast reclaimer and screener.
Photograph depicts Jack Lee and the survey crew's 1930 Buick Series 40 car below the Boston Bar tunnel on their return trip.
Photograph depicts a "trackmobile" in the CNR Boston Bar yard. Work on replacing ties was being carried out 5-10 miles to north.
Photograph depicts lettering on several ballast cars which were headed by a tracktor and tailed by a caboose.
Photograph depicts a shack built by VIA because the depot in Boston bar was unused, empty, locked and awaiting a buyer.