Photograph depicts a caboose that was formerly part of KVR and was on its way to Grand Forks. It now only went 3 miles to the Canadian Cellulose pulp mill in Kraft.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the CPR line in Castlegar, British Columbia.
Photograph taken looking west towards the 3 mile branch to a local mill.
Photograph depicts the former CPR depot in Castlegar that was now a museum. Depot rebuilt in 1907.
Photograph depicts switcher #8106 that served the 3 mile branch to a pulp mill. The switcher pulled with heavy string of loaded cars from the mill. The trip was a caboose run. Locomotive built in 1958 as part of a batch of 31. 17 of them remained in 1997.
Photograph depicts switcher #8106 and caboose #434612 that just arrived with a loaded train from a pulp mill. To the left lay the main track to Nelson.
