Photograph depicts the CPR Kettle Valley Railway in Myra Canyon. This is the northern portal of a 375 ft. long tunnel at mile 85.7. It is lettered 1941 and there is 100 lb. rail dated 1947 at this location.
Photograph depicts a short tunnel through embankment of the former KVR. It was now exposed.
Photograph depicts a turntable outside a disused roundhouse at the C.P.R. yards in Coquitlam. The turntable is still in use.
Photograph depicts a turntable at the CPR Penticton yard. The view is looking east.
Photograph depicts a turntable located at the CN Junction in Kamloops. It was strpped of rails and decking prior to being lifted out of the well.
Photograph depicts a turntable pit located at the CN Junction in Kamloops, BC
Photograph depicts a turntable located at the CN Junction in Kamloops.
Photograph depicts two 3-truck Shay locomotives, #114 and behind her #115, belonging to the Railway Appliance Company at the Vancouver Wharves Ltd. in North Vancouver. They are in daily or weekly use. Both were built by Lima Locomotive Works Inc. Locomotive #114 was built in July 1928 as #3320 and #115 was built in October 1929 as #3344.
Photograph depicts two 3-truck Shay locomotives, #114 and behind her #115, belonging to the Railway Appliance Company at the Vancouver Wharves Ltd. in North Vancouver. They are in daily or weekly use. Both were built by Lima Locomotive Works Inc. Locomotive #114 was built in July 1928 as #3320 and #115 was built in October 1929 as #3344.
Photograph depicts a two bay locomotive shed of the round-house style at Alberni on Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts the rear view of two C.P.R. snowplows in the Coquitlam yards. The one in the forefront is #400790.
Photograph depicts the front view of two snow plows at the C.P.R. Coquitlam yards.
Photograph depicts two grain elevators at Creston, BC. The Creston CPR yard lies behind the camera. The line is on a downgrade away from the camera, starting its descent to the valley bottom for Kootenay Lake. The grain elevators are a rare sight in BC.
Photograph depicts two horse drawn freight wagons exhibited at Cache Creek, about 100 yards south of road junction, on the west side of Spences Bridge road.
Photograph depicts two Pacific Great Eastern locomotives at the North Vancouver depot. They are numbered 1002 and #585. Locomotive #1002 was built by the Montreal Locomotive Company. The view is looking east.
Photograph depicts two steam whalers at North Vancouver awaiting breaking up.
Photograph depicts two steam whalers at North Vancouver awaiting breaking up.
Photograph depicts a Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church on 27th St. and 41st Ave. in Vernon, B.C. in the Okanagan.
Photograph depicts a Ukranian Greek Orthodox church on the outskirts of Mission.
Photograph depicts a Ukranian Greek Orthodox church on the outskirts of Mission. A poster on its door stated that it been 50 years the church had been in Canada (1918-1968).
Photograph depicts the same person who owned the service station building electric generator house in Trout Lake. He also built an undershot water wheel that was driven by Lardeau Creek.
Photograph depicts the post office in Union Bay. It was a "Heritage" building and internally restored. Believed to have been built in 1908.
Photograph depicts a United Airlines flight to Seattle.
Photograph depicts the United Church at Spences Bridge in the Fraser Canyon. The church is on the flats on the west side of the river and close to the C.N. depot.
Photograph depicts an unknown building in B.C.
Photograph depicts the unused C.P.R. Shawnigan Lake section house on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway. It is 27.8 miles outside Victoria.
Photograph depicts possibly disused fishboats found adjacent to oil wharfs in Prince Rupert.
Photograph depicts the Upper Clearwater Hall on a dirt road between Clearwater (70 miles north of Kamloops) and the entrance to Wells Gray Provincial Park. The cracks between the logs recently re-cemented.
Photograph taken at the Penticton Airport where WWII military airplanes meet. This US military plane was flown by a US Air Militia on a courtesy visit. It was built in the early 1950's.
Photograph depicts the U.S.S. Cowell, a heavy destroyer in English Bay, Vancouver during the maritime festival, with a yacht from the Victoria Yacht Club alongside.
Photograph depicts the U.S.S. Cowell, a heavy destroyer in English Bay, Vancouver during the maritime festival.
Photograph depicts the U.S.S. Cowell, a heavy destroyer in English Bay, Vancouver during the maritime festival.
Photograph depicts Vancouver City College, formerly King Edward Secondary School.
Photograph depicts the Vancouver Fire Department fire boat #2 moored at the federal dock beside the immigration building in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts a fire truck being used to deal with a bedroom fire in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts Vancouver Fireboat #2 at the pier in front of the immigration building.
Photograph depicts Vancouver Fireboat #2 having its hull sandblasted in a dry dock at the Burrard Shipyard & Marine Ways Ltd. at 1729 West Georgia St., Vancouver.
Photograph depicts a Vancouver Iron Works built steam donkey in use until the early 1950s. It was purchased for $800 by an enthusiast in 1963 , set up beside home and roadside at Sayward near Kelsey Bay on North Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts the Vancouver Shipyards Ltd. on 555 Denman St. in Vancouver, B.C., looking south from Coal Harbour waters.
Photograph depicts a velocipede outside the museum depot in Fort Langley.
Photograph depicts a velocipede outside the museum depot in Fort Langley.
Photograph depicts a velocipede outside the museum depot in Fort Langley.
Photograph depicts a velocipede north of C.P.R. track and immediately west of Port Hammond in the Fraser Valley. These three-wheeled hand/foot powered track vehicles were mostly used by track patrolmen.
Photograph depicts a velocipede at about mile 86.4 on the Kettle Valley Railway in Myra Canyon. The view is looking north.
Photograph depicts a velocipede at about mile 86.5 on the Kettle Valley Railway in Myra Canyon. The view is looking south.
Photograph depicts two velocipedes on the CPR Kettle Valley Railway in Myra Canyon. They were privately owned and located at the southern entrance of the tunnel at mile 86.3.
Photograph depicts two velocipedes on the CPR Kettle Valley Railway in Myra Canyon. They were privately owned and located at the southern entrance of the tunnel at mile 86.3.
Photograph taken at the VIA Rail depot in Vancover. It was the former CNR depot. Two passenger cars being served in a barn are visible.
Photograph taken at the VIA Rail depot in Vancouver. Visible is a former Grand Trunk Pacific car, 'Nechako,' now CNR #15105. It was a fairly permanent fixture with steam, water, and waste lines fixed up to the depot's facilities.
Photograph taken at the VIA Rail depot in Vancouver. Visible is a VIA Rail car #117 that is clad in stainless steel.