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Photograph depicts coal wharves of a defunct railway that ran bewteen coallieries at Cumberland and Union Bay. The ground on the left appeared to be filled, recently dumped and bulldozed flat.

Photograph depicts coal miners near Buckley Bay. The afternoon shift (3 p.m.) is going down the Tsable drift mine, which is the only working coal pit on Vancouver Island in 1964 and has a total of 70 employees. It is run by the Comox Colliery Co. and has a daily production of 200-300 tons.

Photograph depicts the Tsable coal pit on Vancouver Island as the first coal of the afternoon shift being hauled up.

Photograph depicts a general view of Coal Harbour in Vancouver, taken from its head in Stanley Park, looking east. The Bayshore Inn is shown on the extreme left of the image.

Photograph depicts the upper end of Coal Harbour, on the south shore looking southwest and taken from the dock of the Vancouver Shipyards Ltd.

Photograph depicts a general view of Coal Harbour in Vancouver, looking southeast and taken from Royal Vancouver Yacht Club premises. Photo shows the Bayshore Hotel on the extreme left.

Photograph depicts the west end of Coal Harbour looking south to West Georgia St. and Chilco-Gilford block beyond. The old pilings exposed at low tide.

Photograph depicts a general view of the upper and south shore section of Coal Harbour in Vancouver, B.C.

Photograph depicts a general view of the last 300 yards of the upper neck of Coal Harbour in Vancouver, B.C. The view is looking west and taken from the south side.

Photograph depicts the west end of Coal Harbour looking south to West Georgia St. and Chilco-Gilford block beyond. The old pilings exposed at low tide.

Photograph depicts a general view of Coal Harbour in Vancouver, looking southeast and south with Marine Building (downtown) on extreme left and Stanley Park (unseen) at extreme right.

Photograph depicts Coal Harbour in Vancouver. The view is looking east.

Photograph depicts Coal Harbour in Vancouver. The view is looking east at the Bayshore Hotel and facing the Harbour Park Development site, newly filled with rock.

Photograph depicts Coal Harbour in Vancouver. The photo was taken nearly at the head of the harbour on the south side.

Photograph depicts a coach stock in the C.P.R. False Creek yards in Vancouver, B.C.

Photograph depicts details of a switch stand built by Canadian Ramaco Iron Works, Niagara Falls patented 1933. Found adjacent to the BC Forest Products Mill.

Photograph taken 200 yards west of the Youbou depot which can be seen through the trees at the top right. The spur lead to the BC Forest Products Mill.

Photograph taken at the end of the CNR track on Vancouver Island. The track was built in 1928 and it went to the end of Cowichan lake at Kissinger, but it was cut back in 1936 to Hawes on mile 90.6. The track was reduced by 8 miles to this point prior to 1972.

Photograph taken at the end of the branch line from Cowichan Bay to the BC Forest Products Mill in Youbou.The spur on the right was the second of 2 rail entrances to the mill and was the one that was most often used.

Photograph depicts a private spur leading to the BC Forest Products Mill.

Photograph depicts a switch found in the immediate foreground that lead to a totally overground "Y" on the right.

Photograph depicts a setak decked, flat car with old style springs carring a modern bunk car. It was part of a 5 car work train containing a gondola, tool, generator, above car, and a depressed flat car to carry a bulldozer.

Photograph depicts a tool generator car. Image captures part of a five car work train containing: a gondola, tool car, box car, bunk, as well as a depressed flat car to carry a bulldozer.

Photograph depicts work cars found in the background. Siding here could hold 54 cars. Davies notes that Wire Cache was named so because an overland telegraph company dumped a telegraph wire by the a stern wheeler.

Photograph taken at the "Winch Spur" depot, located 1 mile south of Lytton and Fraser Canyon. Image displays contractors erecting a high voltage transmission line from the Peace Dam to Vancouver. They had just reached this point and now were using a used single spur to offload trucks, electric cable, etc.

Photograph depicts the grade crossing at Topham Road in the community of Walnut Grove within Langley, BC

Photograph depicts double tracking that was in progress. A second road bed had been built in 1982. Track was built in 1984. It was about to be spliced into a 131 car length siding.

Photograph depicts double tracking that was in progress. Existing siding was about to be spliced into a new south bound track.

Photograph taken on the Victoria to Deerholme branch. Track was close to the east side of Sooke Basin and near Matheson Lake Park. At this date, the branch was used weekly between Deerholme and the way point was as far as the Rocky Point Ammunition Depot which was about 3 miles east of where the photograph was taken.

Photograph taken at a coal yard to the east of Tyee Road and north of Bay Street in Victoria.

Photograph depicts a trestle over the Selkirk waterfront in the Victoria harbour.

Photograph depicts the former line from the CNR yards in downtown Victoria. Taken from Boleskine Road overbridge, looking north.

Photograph depicts a track located beyond a road covered in dense bushes. The rail in the foreground is dated 1918 and 1912. Image captured on Jacklin road, estimated to be on mile 9.2 in the former Cowichan Subdivision.

Photograph depicts the CNR main line from Victoria to Duncan. Image captured looking south from Gorge Road towards a Selkirk water trestle. The line behind the camera was in regular use to the Cedar Hill Grass Roads spur. The main line beside the Island highway ran west out of Victoria.

Photograph depicts the entrance to the CNR yards on the west side of the Selkirk waterfront in Victoria. A trestle bridge is immediately behind the camera.

Photograph taken on Jacklin Road in the former Cowichan Subdivision. With a few exceptions of short length removals, trackage of the Subdivision remained intact in metro Victoria. It was last used in regular service in September 1965.

Photograph depicts the end of the trackage near Cedar Hill Cross Road and Borden Road in Saanich. This line was formerly part of the Victoria to Sidney line built by the Canadian Northern Pacific in 1913-1914.

Photograph taken in the Cowichan Subdivision at Metchosin on mile 14.8 from Victoria.

Photograph taken at Kaptara in the north-west extent of Shawnigan Lake and part of the Lake Cowichan Branch.

Photograph taken at the CNR Vancouver Island line. Rails and ties were being lifted prior to the date the photograph was taken. Image displays the location of the station's west end siding switch.

Photograph depicts the CNR Vancouver Island line being dismantled. Image captured a section that was left intact and was now owned by a preservation group. Rails labelled "Illinois 1918."

Photograph taken in the Sooke Lake vicinity. Image captures the road from Shawnigan Lake to Leechtown which is intersected by former trackage. The track may have been removed in 1982.

Photograph taken in the vicinity of Sooke Lake. Image displays the road from Shawnigan Lake to Leechtown that was intersected by former trackage. A trench was dug to stop access into the Victoria water supply watershed. Rails may have been lifted in 1982.

Photograph taken in Milnes Landing, depicting former CNR track that became property of a preservation society whose members run speeders over it.

Photograph depicts an overbridge of a lifted line in the Sooke Bay-Metchosin area.

Photograph taken on mile 24.5 from Victoria in the Cowichan Subdivision at Saseenas. Victoria-Sooke Road is visible in the foreground.

Photo at the corner of Sooke Lake, located 18 miles north-west of downtown Victoria. Davies notes that the lack of rail rust and low growth of vegetation suggest regular, but not too frequent traffic on the line.

Photograph depicts the CNR's Vancouver Island being lifted at this point in Milnes Landing.