Photograph depicts the western portal of the 1916 Connaught Tunnel. Glacier station was located behind the camera.
Glacier, BC
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Photograph depicts the Connaught Tunnel. Traffic was normally eastbound through it, while westbound traffic went through the new Mt. Macdonald Tunnel.
Photograph depicts the western portal of the 1916 Connaught Tunnel. The tunnel used to be double tracked, but was singled in the 1960s in orde to take piggy-back/container traffic. Curiously, the switch to the single was inside the tunnel.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of theCPR Glacier Depot and Connaught Tunnel near Glacier, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts the disused CPR Glacier station that was now usd a temporary storehouse.
Photograph depicts the disused CPR Glacier station. Visible is the end of a moving emptying coal train.
Photograph depicts the disused CPR Glacier station.
Postcard depicts Glacier House and Great Glacier.
Postcard depicts Glacier House and Great Glacier House built in 1886 as one of three similar hotels, the other two being Mt. Stephen House in Field, and Fraser Canyon Hotel in North Bend. Business fell off rapidly in 1916 when tracks were relocated into a new tunnel. Buildings were demolished in 1930.
Postcard depicts Glacier House, CPR, and Hermirt Range, Selkirk Mountains.
Postcard depicts Glacier Station.
Postcard depicts Hermit Range and Rogers' Pass, CPR.
Postcard depicts Illecillewaet Valley and Loop from Observation Point, Glacier B.C., on the CPR line.
Postcard depicts Illecillewaet Valley and Loop near Glacier, BC
Postcard depicts Illecillewaet Valley from Lookout Point on Mt. Abbott, near Glacier B.C.
Postcard depicts Imperial Limited on the Great Loop in the Selkirks, near Glacier, BC
Postcard depicts Macdonald Range, near Glacier B.C.
Postcard depicts Mt. Bonny near Glacier, BC.
Postcard possibly taken in Glacier, BC
Postcard depicts the Illecillewaet Valley, near Glacier, BCThe view shows the end of the descent over Rogers Pass, if travelling westerly. The scar in the foreground was believed to be the track between the 1st (Glacier Hotel) and 2nd (Loop Brook) loops.
Postcard depicts "The Loop," Glacier, BC
Postcard depicts the west portal of the Connaught Tunnel, near Glacier, BCDavies noted the ventilation engine house above the entrance.