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Photograph depicts two "slave units" heading north after having been spliced into the middle of loaded southbound freight the previous day. Continous movement was performed daily.

Photograph depicts a passing loop from main traffic as well as a spur for work cars and one frieght unloading loop (a box car on the left is standing on it).

Photo displays a quickly disappearing Pacific Great Eastern logo. Davies found it on a tool car of a track maintenance train.

Photograph depicts a ballast car that was built in 1955. Behind it was a "Bridge and Buildings" work car or a former cattle car built in 1914.

Photograph depicts a rail lifting train consisting of a locomotive, crane, gondola car, flat, and caboose. The train was running backwards slowly and picking up train and loose track fastenings on the non-main line side of the passing loop.

Photograph depicts a northbound daily Budd passenger train (2-4 cars) crossing the Portage River (Seton River) over a bridge that was built three years before. The depot in Seton Portage was found 200 yards behind the camera.

Photograph depicts a 2 car Budd train that had stopped at the depot in Seton Portage.

Photograph depicts a 2 car Budd dayliner near mile 139.7, north of Seton Portage.

Photograph depicts the Buntain's flag station on the eastern shore of Anderson Lake and about a mile from the depot in Seton Portage. The flag station was created in 1968.

Photograph depicts an inspection automobile that was about to come off track and onto the road in order to investigate a large derailment at the switch on mile 139.

Photograph depicts a rail lifting train slowly moving backwards and collecting rail lengths and track fastenings.

Photograph depicts a refrigerator car that was built in 1956. Davies notes that it was unusual, but not rare to see an old type of logo on the revenue cars. The car was used to transport weekly groceries on way freight northwards out of Vancouver to places such as Seton Portage with one store in the village.

Photograph depicts a passing loop with way freight on the interior part of the loop.

Photograph depicts northbound freight passing Buntain's Flag Station. The lead locomotive was derailed a week later 2 mile east of the loaction at the east end of the Seton Portage passing loop. The locomotive was built by Montreal Locomotive works and have been in service on the Pacific Great Eastern for less than 3 months.

Photograph depicts a speeder which precedes all trains and was crossing the bridge over the Portage River (Seton River).

Photograph depicts a steel-lined wreck train car that was used by work crews and consisted of a dining area, kitchen, sleeping quarters, and bathroom.

Photograph depicts the Pacific Great Eastern line beside the Seton River which connects Anderson Lake and Seton Lake. The bridge to the left take the road to D'Arcy and Pemberton.

Photograph depicts a 2 Budd car train travelling northbound and crossing the Portage River (Seton River).

Photograph depicts northbound freight crossing the Portage River (Seton River).

Photograph depicts a 2 car Budd train that mae the North Vancouver to Lillooet round trip daily.

Photograph depicts southbound way freight switching cars.

Photograph depicts the Bridge River Hydro Power Station on the edge of Seton Lake. A BC Hydro First Aid trolley with a heater connection was plugged in. The train was the fastest method to get an injured person to Lillooet from Shalalth as it was about 16 miles by rail in comparison to 50 miles by uneven dirt road. Ordinary PGE trollies were used by injured civilians between D'Arcy and Lillooet as it was the quickest method of evacuation.

Photograph depicts an the eastern portal of a Pacific Great Eastern tunnel on the west side of the Bridge River Hydro project in Shalalth. Penstocks of the hydro plants are clearly visible on the hill side.

Photograph depicts the depot in Shalalth that faces Seton Lake.

Photograph depicts a wrecked steel box car used by a farmer as some kind of shed with some of the side panels removed.

Photograph taken from the depot in Squamish that runs a half a mile spur down to a dumping site beside the Squamish River. Image displays the log dump looking towards the east with the depot in the background, towards the right.

Photograph depicts loading logs on the Pacific Great Eastern, north of Squamish.

Photograph depicts a Pacific Great Eastern bridge over the Capilano River in northwest Vancouver. Also visible is a switching locomotive.

Photograph depicts a caboose and flanger car #1823.

Photograph depicts the Pacific Great Eastern line through Williams Lake.

Photograph depicts a caboose and flanger car #6016

Photograph depicts horses beside track about 300 yards south of the passenger depot in Williams Lake.

Photo depicts the interchange of passengers of a northbound dayliner around the wreckage of a derailment. Two budd car units from Vancouver can been seen in the background. Passengers were being transferred to a "scratch" train assembled at Lillooet and consisting of a budd car, caboose and a diesal switcher.

Photo depicts the transfer of a Vancouveer to Lillooet dayliner to the unit made up at Lillooet wich consisted of a budd car, caboose and switcher. The scene of the Seton Portage derailment was found 100 yards behind the photo.

Photo depicts the largest crane on the Pacific Great Eastern and is stationed in Prince George.

Photo depicts a crane #6501 in position to lift locomotive #703. It was about to re-rail one end of the locomotive. Image captured looking towards the south with the shoo-fly in the immediate foreground and Setan Lake in the background.

Photo depicts a distant view of the Seton Portage wreck,. Squamish Shops crane was standing on the minor line of the loop. The crane was self-propelled and after its launch it had broken its drive axle. This was replaced by a standard axle and, therefore, was propelled by a switcher.

Photo depicts a close up view of the rear of the locomotive #703. It was stopped at the head of a freight onn the main line portion of the loop awaiting a southbound loaded freight. Its tracks were derailed, fuel tranks ruptures and a sliver of steel from the box car was forced into its forward tracks. The left side of the cab was also sheared.

Photo depicts the general view of a derailment, looking eastward. The derailed locomotive #703 was found beside a squashed box car. By this time, a PGE bulldozer had prepared a road bed for the wreck.

Photo depicts a shoo-fly that had been built around the Seton Portage wreck. locomotive #703 had stood at this spot just before the switch when the cars of the southbound freight piled into it.

Photo depicts a Pacific Great Eastern working train approaching Seton Portage. It had been diverted from the derailment to fill in a burnt out wooden culvert on the edge of Anderson Lake.

Photo depicts the removal of about 70 bales from a box car.

Photo depicts a derailment in Seton Portage at the Pacific Great Eastern broken switch on mile 139.8.

Photo depicts the general view of the clean up of the derailment in Seton Portage. The track in which a speeder stands a gondola car with rolls were the two tracks of the loop. They were both severed and respliced in making the "second edition" of the shoo-fly.

Photograph depicts a piece of abandoned track leading to the peat plant at #8 road on Lulu Island on the Westminster Highway. The track runs parallel to the Westminster Highway, which is at the left beyond the photo. The rail is undated and marked, "Rlymney Steel" (South Wales). The photo is looking west and the Canadian National Railway (CN) spur lies a quarter mile behind the camera.

Photograph depicts Pier #2 in Vancouver at the north end of Columbia St. It shows disconnected trackage on the east side of the pier that was formerly serviced by the CPR. It has not been in use for some years. The switch fittings were made by the Nelson Iron Works in Seattle.

Photograph depicts Pier B in Burrard Harbour, Vancouver. The photo shows the inside the main roadway and the CPR trackage.

Photograph depicts Pier B of C.P.R., just west of the C.P.R. railway station. This is the only pier accessible to ocean going passenger liners and is used by P&O vessels. Facilities generally in adequate for the 1960s.

Photograph depicts Pioneer Sash and Door Company Ltd. Davies suggests that it may have been the same as S.C. Smith Ltd., which commenced operating in Vernon in 1883. In the early days, products were verandah posters, balusters, and fancy trim. Most products were sent to the U.S. Most of the fancy trim in early north Okanagan homes came from this plant. In 1972, its main output was cedar panelling for Florida.

Photograph depicts a pipe yard of West Coast Gas Transmission. Two large pipes had gotten away and rolled onto the railway.