Photograph depicts a rail bridge crossing the Fraser River. Right-of-way suggested little usage, but tracks indicated a train had passed within the past 3 days since the photograph was captured.
Hope, BC
8 Archival description results for Hope, BC
Photograph depicts a rail bridge crossing the Fraser River. Until 1956, this was the western extremity of the Kettle Valley line, linking up with the CPR main lien to Vancouver. Track now led to derelict looking CPR yards in Hope.
Photograph depicts a wreck crane and train standing by while freight trains pass. Image captured before the freight train returned to the wreck of some locomotive and freight cars about 2 miles north of Hope.
Photograph depicts a Port Mann wrecking train with a crane. The image captured the train waiting for allowance to pass before the crane was to be propelled 2 miles up the Fraser Canyon to a wreck of freight in which a train ran into a mud slide causing it to fall upright into the icy shallowness of a river.
Photograph taken at about 2 miles west of Hope. The visible crossing here leads to the airport in Hope. The track further west of this was being laid in a continous welded rail.
Photograph depicts a Port Mann wreck train standing on siding to allow westbound grain trains to pass by and then to be propelled back to a working site of a wreck 2 miles north in Fraser Canyon. On February 28, a freight ran into a slide and fell upright into ice at the rivers edge. About 8 cars were destroyed in a fire.
Photograph depicts a modern device usedor track gangs in order to carry 20-40 ft. lengths of rail.
Photograph depicts a caboose used as a mobile "Maintenance of Way" office. It was a transfer yard caboose built in Montreal in 1977-8. Made into a series of which all except two had been put to other uses since 1991-2.