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2013.6.36.1.007.038 · Item · Aug. 1964
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the Malahat station on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway line, 20 miles north of Victoria on Vancouver Island. The view is looking south and there are no houses anywhere in the vicinity.

Mainland St. in Vancouver
2013.6.36.1.015.34 · Item · 22 Oct. 1974
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the 1500 block of Mainland St. in Vancouver. The boxcar in the view is CN #521160. The switch at Helmcken St. is still in position but not usable because it has been partially black topped and had the rods removed.

2013.6.36.1.153.07 · Item · [June 1996]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken in front of the 'main line' that led to a pulp mill and river crossing. To the left was a lesser used connector to the CN main line. Behind the camera was a 4-track interchange yard. Beyond that, the CN line to Alberta could be found.

2013.6.36.1.010.08 · Item · Aug. 1964
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the M.B. & P.R. Logging Railway Nanaimo River division, which is the only railroad left in the company. The photo depicts locomotive #1077 at the Nanaimo River Camp, 16 miles west of Ladysmith. It is a 2-6-2 tank locomotive built by the Montreal Locomotive Company in December 1923.

MacMillan Bloedel, Nanaimo
2013.6.36.1.051.17 · Item · [14 June 1972]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts locomotive #1077 built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1923. It was the road engine for log traffic to Ladysmith and had been left on a spur, isolated by three breaks in the tracks. It had been out of service, as had all MacMillan Bloedel traffic, for at least 12 months.

Lumber mill in Savona
2013.6.36.1.016.45 · Item · Oct. 1984
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a lumber mill for Evans Wood Products Ltd. In Savona. It shows filling chip cars that are taken to Weyerhaeuser Pulp Mill in Kamloops, 25 miles to the east. And loading, the cars run down grade to the spur end. The total capacity of the spur is about 6 cars.

Logging road, Gold River
2013.6.36.1.069.15 · Item · Aug. 1975
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken north of Gold River, at the Tahsis Ltd. Tree Farm, on a logging road that led to Port McNiel. Crossing the Muchalat River. The bridge was disused and blocked off.

Logging caboose
2013.6.36.1.136.28 · Item · [May 2007]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a primitive logging caboose. Believed to have been built by or for the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway in 1898.

2013.6.36.1.010.30 · Item · [May 1964]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts two locomotives at the Rayonier Railroad Camp, north of Hoquiam in Washington. On the left is a 2-6-6-2 Baldwin locomotive #110. It is 111 tons and has 37, 500 lbs. of tractive effort. It is being fired Sunday night for a Monday start. Beside it is either locomotive #38 or #111.

Locomotive-pushed snow plow
2013.6.36.3.06.31 · Item · [after 1949]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Postcard depicts a snow plow. "Completion of the Connaught Tunnel in 1916 solved the worst of the severe weather problems faced by the CPR in Rogers Pass, where snowfalls average 50 feet. Based at Revelstokem a locomotive-pushed wedge plow and a Jordan spreader equipped with air-operated wings and retractable nose plates skim over the rails near Fraine, BC"

Locomotive frame in Savona
2013.6.36.1.053.11 · Item · Oct. 1980
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a compressed air operated locomotive frame that had unequal sized cylinders (high and low pressure) and was believed to have come from the Canmore coal mines.