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Photograph depicts a Sperry Rail service car #136 at the Penticton C.P.R. depot. It is for detecting faulty or broken rails and visits the area once a year. It is moving off to start work at mile 34 west of Penticton.

Photograph depicts a Sperry Rail service car #136 at the Penticton C.P.R. depot. Note the larger bogie on the right hand bogie which accommodates detection gear. It is being serviced before moving to an area west of Penticton.

Photograph depicts the Sperry Rail service car at the C.P.R. Penticton depot, just moving off to the west.

Photograph depicts the Sperry Rail service car #136 for detection of faulty rails at the Penticton C.P.R. depot. It is used mainly to cover rail manufactured prior to 1932.

Photograph depicts Spences Bridge on the Thompson River and the only surviving pier of the earlier Spences' Bridge. View looking at east bank.

Photograph depicts a speeder at the edge of the East Fork Canyon Bridge over Klo Creek. This is located at mile 86.5 on the CPR Kettle Valley Railway in Myra Canyon. The view is looking north.

Photograph depicts a speeder meet along the Okanagan line. As trips started and finished in places that had no washrooms, this mobile porto-potty came along and met definite needs.

Photograph taken at a speeder meet. Davies had ridden in this deluxe vehicle for the whole way along the Okanagan line. Margaret Hope, an organizer of the B.C. segment of a three week tour, mentioned that her husband designed and built the machine.

Photograph depicts a speeder meet. People were taking a rest break at the north end of Monte Lake.

Photograph depicts a speeder meet while on a B.C. run from Armstrong to Campbell Creek Junction and back again. About 25 cars were at the south end of Monte Lake.

Photograph depicts a speeder meet at the Campbell Creek Junction. Visible is a large home-built version.

Photograph depicts a speeder meet while on a B.C. run from Armstrong to Campbell Creek Junction and back again.

Photograph depicts a speeder meet of about 25 vehicles. They were leaving the overpass at Campbell Creek Junction for return back to Armstrong.

Photograph depicts a speeder meet at the Campbell Creek Junction. All speeders, consisting of 25, had just turned around and were ready to go south to Armstrong.

Photograph taken on the outskirts of Kelowna, in an industrial area about 2 miles north of a branch terminal. The turn around point for all 25 speeders was done on a black-topped, little used public grade crossing.

Photograph depicts a speeder meet of "Motor Car Operators West" enthusiasts. Comprised of 25 cars. All taking part in a weekend tour of the Okanagan. On this day, they were going from Vernon to Lumby and Kelowna. Cars were getting ready to depart at the yard of the Kelowna Pacific Railway in Vernon. The cars were headed south to be preceeded by hi-rail of the KPR.

Photograph depicts a lunch stop at Oyama for the speeder meet. These speeders were Fairmont MT 19.

Photograph depicts a speeder labelled "Rio Grande."

Photograph depicts a CN speeder.

Photograph depicts a speeder labelled "Union Pacific."

Photograph depicts a speeder at a B.C. speeder meet.

Photograph depicts a speeder car.

Photograph depicts a CN speeder.

Photograph depicts a Pacific Great Eastern Railway "Special Train" that is "carrying a number of members of B.C. Legislature on their tour of inspection. First train into Lillooet, B.C. Feb. 20, 1915, 5 p.m." The train is depicted on the grade along the Seton River as it leaves Seton Lake.

Photograph depicts special equipment opposite a car barn of the B.C. Electric Railway, at New Westminster.

Image depicts the interior of the ferry at Southbank, B.C.

Photograph depicts the South Slocan Junction at mile 11.9 on the CPR line on the Nelson Boundary Subdivision. It closed as an agency in June 1969 but the telegrapher still maintained it. Three to four freights pass per day on the main line: 2 to Trail, 1 to Castlegar pulp mill, and 1 every other day to Midway. On the branch there is 1 train per week to Nakusp that leaves Nelson on Monday, arrives in Nakusp on Tuesday, and returns to Nelson on Wednesday. The view is looking east.

Photograph depicts the south shore line of the B.C. Electric Railway in False Creek, Vancouver. B.C. Hydro operated it, if not owned it. The location was directly opposite from Granville Island.

Lofty view of stern wheeler in river. Scattered buildings and tents in background. Printed annotation on recto reads: “South Fort George Oct 30th 1910”

Handwritten caption above this photo reads: "Sophie [Haach?] [lived?] in the Adams House". Photograph depicts Sophie seated behind table, curtains in background.

Photograph of a vessel filled with lumber just off the coast of a shore also littered with lumber. Mountains are barely visible in the background.

Photograph depicts the Soda Creek reaction ferry.

Photograph depicts the Soda Creek reaction ferry.

Photograph depicts the Soda Creek reaction ferry. A ferry was sited between Soda Creek and Marguerite. The reaction ferry in Soda Creek itself had been abandoned for some time.

Image depicts what appears to be a Ranch at Soda Creek, B.C.

Image depicts the ferry at Soda Creek, B.C.

Mountains visible in background.

Image depicts a snow-covered road with vehicle tracks, and several houses. The location is uncertain.

Image depicts a road covered in snow running through the woods at an uncertain location.

Image depicts a snowy road at an uncertain location.

Photograph depicts two of the three snowplows in stationed din the CPR Penticton yard.

Photograph depicts a snowplow extra on the CPR line at Kingsvale, on the Princeton Subdivision at about mile 119. The snowplow extra was running south from Merritt with a plough, 2 locomotives and a caboose. Towards Brookmere summit the snow was 9 to 12 inches deep.

Photograph depicts a snowplow extra on the CPR line at Kingsvale, on the Princeton Subdivision at about mile 119. The snowplow extra was running south from Merritt with a plough, 2 locomotives and a caboose. Towards Brookmere summit the snow was 9 to 12 inches deep.

Photograph depicts very large snow pile in plowed yard. A small building with a log roof is semi-visible behind snow on far right.

Image depicts a snow-covered road at an uncertain location.

Winter landscape scene featuring a small barn barely visible under snow. Trees in background and snow-plowed area in foreground. Handwritten caption beside this photo reads: "Lakeside Barn in Winter".