Photograph depicts the crossing between the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway (the camera is facing these tracks) and Comox Logging and Railway Company. The guard tower was manned at 7:00 p.m. and had its roof recently reshingled. It faces southward.
Photograph depicts disused log cars standing on spurs immediately north of the crossing between Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway and Comox Logging and Railway Company. Both track cars are owned by CPR. Note: protection signals are located on the right. The camera is aimed towards the north.
Photograph depicts Lake Cowichan. Trackage that is unconnected is visible in the foreground. Depot itself is a house and a rail museum combined. It was closed at the same time as the Honeymoon Bay mill. Permission was given to close the 18 mile brand line on November 13, 1984. Track lifting commenced on November 20, 1984.
Postcard depicts the Lake Louise CPR depot.
Photograph depicts a replica of the "SS Beaver" built by the RCN in Esquimalt and moored in Vancouver, open to the public. The original ship left Gravesend on August 29, 1935 and reached Fort Vancouver (Oregon) on April 10. 1936.
Photograph depicts a lake steamer called "Proctor." It was a wood hull steam vessel that was built in Nelson in 1900 and was owned by the CPR. It worked on Kootenay Lake till 1904 and then transferred to Trout Lake. The vessel was sold by the CPR in 1917 when they quit the service and ran privately till it was laid up in 1921.
Photograph depicts land clearance between Monashee Pass and Lumby, B.C.
Photograph depicts "Landing Craft #10," of the B.C. Provincial Forestry Service.
Photograph depicts a large house that was actually the Sunset Beach Lodge. The western end of the block was being demolished. Image captured the last complete block of houses on Beach Ave.
Photograph depicts the last spike at Craigellachie, 15 miles northeast of Sicamous, looking southwest.
Photograph depicts a Lee's Custom Meats box, labelled "Airmail."
Photograph depicts a lidgerwood skidder with its front section visible. Built in 1929 for Wyerhauser.
Photograph depicts a lidgerwood skidder with its front section visible. Built in 1929 for Wyerhauser.
Photograph depicts a lidgerwood skidder with its rear section visible. Built in 1929 for Wyerhauser.
Photograph depicts a log cabin that was inhabited by an older aboriginal man who is visible in the window. The cabin was perhaps 100 years old.
Photograph depicts a car crossing the Lillooet Suspension Bridge (also known as the Lillooet Old Bridge) over the Fraser River.
Photograph depicts a line of cabooses on the caboose track at Revelstoke. There are rumours that the vehicles are to become obsolete by replacing them with a monitoring device attached to the last car of a train.
Photograph depicts the Lions Gate (suspension) Bridge.
Photograph depicts a liquor store and church on Main St. in Lillooet, B.C.
Photograph depicts loading coal at Buckley Bay. Coal is from Tsable Mine belonging to the Comox Colliery Co. The view is looking north.
Photograph taken on the CPR branch from Vernon to Lumby. Depicts loading poles at Gorman Bros Ltd.
Photograph depicts a loading slip in an unknown location.
Photograph depicts a loading spur on the B.C. Electric Railway at Jackman St. (or nearby), 10 miles east of Langley. The view is looking east.
Photograph depicts locomotive #24 "Susie" at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. It was built by Vulcan in 1894 and has a 0-4-0 saddle tank. The length is 17'16", width 6', and the height 8'. The wheel diameter is 29" and the wheelbase is 52". The cylinders are 9"x14". It has a boiler pressure of 125lbs and a water capacity of 300 gallons,. The weight is 24,000 lbs.
Photograph depicts locomotive #24 "Susie" at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. It has a 3' gauge. The last known owner before acquisition by G. Wellburn was the Elk River Collieries Ltd.
Photograph depicts locomotive #25 at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. It was first used in building the C.N.R. in B.C. and/or western Alberta. The gauge is 3' and it is believed it was built to this gauge. The drive is Elmer Blackstaff, the chief mechanic at the museum.
Photograph depicts locomotive #25 at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. It was built by Vulcan in 1910. It has a 0-4-0 saddle tank to which has been added a tender. Its length is 21'8", width 7'6", and height 9'8". It has a wheel diameter of 29" and a wheel base of 60". Its cylinders are 10"x18". It has a boiler pressure of 150 lbs. and a water capacity of 400 gallons. It weighs 36, 000 lbs. The driver is Elmer Blackstaff, RR4 Duncan.
Photograph depicts locomotive #25 at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. It was first used in building the C.N.R. in B.C. and/or western Alberta. The gauge is 3' and it is believed it was built to this gauge. The drive is Elmer Blackstaff, the chief mechanic at the museum.
Photograph depicts a locomotive on display at Pioneer Park & Museum at Totem Lake, 3 miles north of Yahk and 30 miles east of Creston on Route #3895.
Photograph depicts a 22 ton Lima Shay locomotive, built in 1910 and with a tractive effort of 10, 700 lbs. It is in Promised Land Park on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.
Photograph depicts a 2-6-6-2 Bladwin locomotive at the Rayonier Railroad camp, north of Hoquiam in Washington. It is on the scrapping line 200 yards from the engine house. It was built in 1934, and possibly numbered 38. The weight is 146 1/2 tons with 59, 600 lb. tractive effort.
Photograph depicts #120 2-6-6-2 Baldwin locomotive at the Rayonier Railroad camp, north of Hoquiam in Washington. It is on the scrapping line, 200 yards from the engine house. It was built in 1936, weighs 186 1/2 tons, and has 59, 600 lbs. of tractive effort. Probably locomotive #38 behind her.
Photograph depicts a locomotive at the Crown Zellerbach Museum in Ladysmith.
Photograph depicts a locomotive at the Crown Zellerbach Museum in Ladysmith.
Photograph depicts a locomotive at the Crown Zellerbach Museum in Ladysmith.
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.
Photograph depicts a compressed air locomotive frame owned by Mr. Shane Sherman. It was believed to have come from the Canmore coal mines.
Photograph most likely depicts a locomotive at the Crown Zellerbach Museum in Ladysmith.
Photograph most likely depicts a locomotive at the Crown Zellerbach Museum in Ladysmith.
Photograph depicts a locomotive near Cowichan Bay, B.C.
Photograph depicts a locomotive near Cowichan Bay, B.C.
Photograph depicts a locomotive on display. Location and details unknown.
Photograph depicts a locomotive on display.
Photograph depicts a locomotive on display at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum at Somenos Lake, 1 miles north of Duncan.
Photograph depicts a locomotive on display in Forks on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. The locomotive is a #10 Lima, built in 1930 and weighs 94 tons, with a tractive effort of 38, 200 lbs.
Photograph depicts a #45 2-6-2 Baldwin locomotive built on display a Hoquiam in Grays Harbour County on the Olympic Peninsula. It was built in 1906, weighs 44 tons, and has 16, 700 lbs. of tractive effort.
Photograph depicts a locomotive on a railway track. Location and details unknown.
Photograph depicts a locomotive shed at Chilliwack. Note the electric conductor wire guard at the point where the doors meet at their tops.
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"
Photograph depicts locomotives at the Rayonier Railroad Camp, north of Hoquiam in Washington. The locomotive on the left is #110, 2-6-6-2 Baldwin. It is 111 tons and has 37, 500 lb. tractive effort. The main line from Crane Creek is on the left.