Photograph depicts a grand view of the Ladysmith yards. There had been no steam operations on this line for about 2 years.
Photograph depicts the lower part of the Ladysmith yard, adjacent to a log pond. A semaphore signal was activated by the tide and indicated to the engineer of the log train the suitable depth for offloading logs from the cars.
Photograph depicts a log car repair shop. Visible is one car being repaired as well as another awaiting attention on a switch spur on the right.
Photograph taken about half a mile north of the diamond crossing, looking southeast at the point where the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway closely follows the Comox Railway for about 300 yards. The Comox Railway used one every week for log trains.
Photograph depicts sidings for empty log cars about a quarter of a mile south of the diamond crossing. Image captured looking south, towards the Ladysmith yards. The running line is visible on the right side of the photograph and was used week by a daily log train, consisting of a deisel locomotive and 20 cars.
Photograph depicts deisel switcher #108.
Photograph depicts a mobile crane used to offload log trains into a pond.
Photograph depicts a snow plough in the Ladysmith yards.
Photograph depicts a homemade (?) device used to scour boiler tubs of scale. Taken at the former site of the Comox Logging Railway's yard and maintenance facilities.
Photograph depicts a Comox Logging Railway fire fighting tank car at Ladysmith.
Photograph depicts a part of the former ard of the Comox Logging Railway. It was now a little known park. Locomotive #11, Baldwin, also visible.
Photograph depicts former yard of the Comox Logging Railway. Locomotive shed in background. Locomotive #11, Baldwin, also visible.
Photograph depicts former yard and freight stock of the Comox Logging Railway.
Photograph depicts former Comox Logging locomotive #11.
Photograph depicts the former Comox Logging Railway headquarters.
Photograph depicts the Comox Logging Railway main yard at Ladysmith.
Photograph depicts a compressed air mine locomotive on exhibition at the roadside in Britannia Beach.
Photograph depicts a compressed air mine locomotive.
Photograph depicts the western portal of the 1916 Connaught Tunnel. Glacier station was located behind the camera.
Photograph depicts the Connaught Tunnel. Traffic was normally eastbound through it, while westbound traffic went through the new Mt. Macdonald Tunnel.
Photograph depicts the western portal of the 1916 Connaught Tunnel. The tunnel used to be double tracked, but was singled in the 1960s in orde to take piggy-back/container traffic. Curiously, the switch to the single was inside the tunnel.
Postcara depoiocts Connaught Tunnel in the Canadian Rockies.
Postcard depicts where steam and muscle were combined in the "blue" cut above the Patricia siding to help punch through the spiral tunnels to reduce an "impossible" 4.5% greade to a reasonable 2.4% in the Rogers Pass.
Photograph depicts a docked container ship in British Columbia.
Photograph depicts a former CPR grade of Copper Mountain. A spur at an Allenby concentrator was located on mile 5.6 from Princeton. Ore was first hauled on the track in October, 1920 as grading commeced in April, 1918. Track appeared to be in position, but little was it used unil 1956/1957, but then it was lifted.
Photograph depicts the Courtenay terminus of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway. The view is looking north.
Photograph taken at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum.
Photograph taken at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum near Sommos Lake in Duncan. Visible is a 2 truck shay owned by Gerry Wellburn. It was sited beside the Island Highway, at the entrance of the museum.
Photograph taken at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum near Sommos Lake in Duncan.
Photograph taken at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum.
Photograph depicts CPR delivering 4 tank cars at an interchange track on Home Street. Kamloops Heritage Railways was commencing to build its facilities on the north side of the interchange track.
Photograph depicts the switcher in Grand Forks. When CPR abandoned this city on KYR, there was a need for local switching to BN branch line, so a private company was created. 10 of these switchers were built in 1950/51 for the CPR. This particular locomotive retured in 1989 and was sold to GFR in 1993.
Photograph depicts the CPR Nelson Subdivision in Harrop.
Photograph depicts the CPR Nelson Subdivision in Procter. Located at a third of a mile spur to a barge slip. Its beginning is visible as a former switch site.
Photograph depicts the Nelson Subdivision in Procter. Until 1977, the rail/barge slip was used for lake traffic. All related facilities were removed. Track to slip located on the left. Rails were on existing spurs dated between 1898 and 1914.
Photograph depicts the CPR Nelson Subdivision in Procter. Passing siding rail dated 1954 as well as 1923. All Algoma Steel. The two spurs to the right usually only held work trains and ore rail of 1898-1914 vintage.
Photograph taken 20 miles east of Nelson at the Nelson Subdivision (Cranbrook to Nelson). The white substance near the track was a crude fill of some kind. Location was somewhere between Procter and Harrop.
Photograph depicts the C.P. pier in Vancouver. The ship "Chusan" is unloading cargo.
Photograph depicts the CP rail and the edge of the Homer St. warehouse complex in Vancouver. The view is looking northeast at the western end of Mainland St. The building is at #1152 Mainland St. The right hand track (man's shadow it) goes down Mainland and is in apparent use. The rail on the left hand track is dated 1938.
Photograph depicts the Hatzic Meadows crossing, east of Mission City in the Fraser Valley. It shows the westbound C.P. rail express running at 50-60 mph.
Photograph depicts the Hatzic Meadows crossing, east of Mission City in the Fraser Valley. It shows the westbound C.P. rail express running at 50-60 mph.
Photograph depicts CP rail interchange yards about 1/2 mile west of the city center of New Westminster. In the view is CP baggage car #272046 made by the Canadian Car Co. It is now in use as a horse box with end loading.
Photograph depicts the CP rail in the False Creek area in Vancouver. It is between Beatty and Cambie Streets with Smithe St. crossing from left to right in the foreground. The photo includes an insulated box car of the Southern Pacific Railway, #SP 67343, built in 1961. The track at the right is physically usable but is unused.
Photograph depicts the CP rail track beside Burrard Inlet, approximately parallel with Simon Fraser University. It shows the rear view of the eastbound "Canadian" at about 7 pm.
Photograph depicts CPR service flanger #400572 at Cranbrook. It was built in 1930.
Photograph depicts what Davies noted to be a rare sight to be on a train. Visible are CPR way freight between Lumby and Vernon, travelling to Vernon. 31 of them built at CPR Angus shops in 1976. Only 10 survived at the beginning of 1997.
Photograph depicts CPR way freight and caboose on CN trackage between Lumby and Vernon, travelling to Vernon.
Photograph depicts CP/KVR trackae at the south end of the station in Summerland. The switch was put in by the restoration society. It was not there in CPR days.
Postcard depicts CPR #5800 at Cambie, BC with a loaded coal train headed for Roberts Bank, BC.
Photograph taken at the Clayborn diamond crossing. The CPR runs north and south while the BC Hydro Railway crossing northwest and southeast. An interlocking hut is found at the upper left of the diamond crossing.