Photograph depicts cars of the Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours. Believed that the year the photograph was taken was the first that cars of the company were stored in Kamloops as before they were stored in Vancouver. The initial experience was bad because there was an unseasonable cold snap in November and December that froze all the batteries underneath the cars and ruined them (bursting occured).
Photograph depicts the sidings of the Rocky Mountaineer Railway Tours CN depot in downtown Kamloops.
Photograph depicts a Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tour train passing a newly completed yard.
Photograph depicts a completed yard of the Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours built on the Kamloops Indian Reserve, about 1 1/4 miles northeast of the VIA waiting room at the CN Kamloops Junction.
Photograph depicts the Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours yard. Main line track is found on the left and was still used by CN for Okanagan freights and other miscellaneous trafffic.
Photograph depicts the Rocky Mountaineer in downtown Kamloops.
Photograph depicts the Rocky Mountaineer in downtown Kamloops.
Photograph depicts the Rocky Mountaineer in downtown Kamloops.
Photograph depicts the Rocky Mountaineer in downtown Kamloops.
Photograph depicts the Rocky Mountaineer in downtown Kamloops.
Photograph depicts the Rocky Mountaineer in downtown Kamloops. Locomotive #7488.
Photograph depicts rolling stock on a spur trestle at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum on Somenos Lake.
Photograph depicts a Roman Catholic church, "Our Lady of Lourdes," on the First Nations reservation, Sechelt Village. It was built in 1907 and is now closed, but the heavy bell is still in position in the belfry.
Photograph depicts a bell tower of a Roman Catholic church in the Saanich Peninsula.
Photograph depicts a roundhouse with 16 bays at Cranbrook. Currently 7 were fitted with rails, of which 5 bays are in use. Four of these bays were holding snowplows and 2 were clearly not used. Three of the sixteen bays appear to never have been fitted with track.
Photograph depicts an airplane belonging to the 407 Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force. It is located in Nanton in southwest Alberta, standing beside the highway at the edge of town.
Photograph taken at the BC Rail depot in North Vancouver, with "Royal Hudson" tourist train captured prior to its departure.
Photograph taken at the BC Rail depot in North Vancouver, with tourist train "Royal Hudson" departing to Squamish.
Photograph depicts a wharf spur in Squamish. Visible is locomotive #2860 "Royal Hudson" and a baggage car that is running around the train prior to its departure.
Photograph depicts Royal Oak Apartments on Kingsway in Burnaby.
Photograph depicts a solid rubber tire on wooden spokes. It came from an early type of truck, but was now used on a two-wheel trailer carrying a tank.
Photograph depicts a Rumely oil tractor #1237 , type M, RPM 640. At sea level develops 35 Brake H.P. and 20 drawbar H.P. It was made by Advance Rumely Co. Inc. at Battle Creek, Michigan. The tractor is located at High River, Alberta, 40 miles south of Calgary.
Photograph depicts a Ruston steam roller owned by Gary Wellburn in Duncan, BCIt was previously owned by the Oak Bay municipality.
Photograph depicts a Ruston steam roller owned by Gary Wellburn in Duncan, BC
Photograph depicts a saddle tank built by Porter Company, Pittsburgh, USA in 1901. It was used for charging coke ovens and was acquired from the Crows Nest Pass Coal Company in 1970.
Photograph depicts the CPR depot in Salmon Arm.
Photograph depicts the CPR depot in Salmon Arm.
Photograph depicts a completely rebuilt saloon that was done so based on historical sketches and photos.
Photograph depicts "Salt Spring Island Trading Company Ltd." store.
Photograph depicts sample lettering that read "Canadian National Kamloops Auxiliary."
Photograph depicts sample lettering that read "CN Kamloops Auxiliary Dining Car."
Photograph depicts a sand car at the Great Northern Railway depot in Vancouver, beside the Canadian National Railway (CN) depot.
Photograph depicts a sawmill yard at CPR yard adjacent to barge slip at the end of the branch line. Slocan Lake is in the distance.
Photograph depicts a saw on the outskirts of Courtenay on the road to Cumberland.
Photograph depicts a sawmill at the edge of Okanagan Lake at the north end of downtown Kelowna. The end of a chip loading spur is visible on the left.
Photograph depicts a Sawyer Massey steam engine in Nanton, Alberta. It was built in Hamilton, Ontario. It has a single cylinder and large fire box for burning wood or straw.
Photograph depicts a Sawyer Massey traction engine in Nanton, Alberta. The device parallel and topside of the boiler to heat feed water. The water tank is small so it must have had a water cart in constant attendance.
Photograph depicts a one roomed school that was seemingly still in use.
Photograph depicts a school room or church on the road between Louis Creek and Adams Lake.
Photograph depicts the schoolhouse of Chinatown in Nanaimo, B.C. It is the only surviving building; the others were destroyed by a fire.
Photograph depicts a scow owned by Island Tug and Barge Ltd.
Photograph depicts a scow with chips landing on the north shore of Vancouver harbour. There are Saskatchewan wheat elevators in the background.
Photograph depicts a scraper car in CPR Penticton yard. It has the blade of a snowplow, showing at right.
Photograph depicts a small tug called "Sea Bark" being renovated on Denman Island.
Photograph depicts a derelict steam tug named "Sea Swell" on the Pitt River.
Photograph depicts a monoplane called the "Seabee Amphibian." It was a 3 seater and produced by the Republic Aviation Corp. About 10 of these aircraft were grouped together near the Vancouver International Airport on Sea Island. All were separately owned and in different finishes and states of care.
Photograph depicts a baby seal at C.N. log drop at Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts a baby seal at C.N. log drop at Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts a baby seal at C.N. log drop at Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts a baby seal at C.N. log drop at Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island.