Postcard depicts Glacier House and Great Glacier House built in 1886 as one of three similar hotels, the other two being Mt. Stephen House in Field, and Fraser Canyon Hotel in North Bend. Business fell off rapidly in 1916 when tracks were relocated into a new tunnel. Buildings were demolished in 1930.
Postcard depicts Glacier House, CPR, and Hermirt Range, Selkirk Mountains.
Postcard depicts Glacier Station.
Photograph depicts the GNR (later became BN) branch from Kettle Falls to Grand Forks.
Photograph depicts a bridge over the Similkameen River. When track ran to Hedley, there were 3 of these bridges. All stood still at the time the photograph was captured. The other were on the lifted Keremeos to Hedley section.
Photograph depicts a rail bridge over the Similkameen River.
Photograph depicts a bridge over the Similkameen River. The branch was still in use with very little traffic. One padlocked door on each side of the bridge allows examination of trusses.
Photograph taken at the Great Northern Railway connection from its terminal yards to its wharf on Vancouver Harbour or the connection with CPR. Image captured crossing Powell Street, looking southward, north of Glen Drive, Vancouver.
Postcard depicts the Kicking Horse Canyon. As seen from the Golden-Field Highway and Motor Road. Along the CPR line.
Photograph depicts a Goodyear airship travelling over Spanish Banks, Vancouver. It took part in the Abbotsford Air Show of 1971.
Photograph depicts a Goodyear Blimp cruising over the Centennial Museum near Sunest Beach, False Creek, Vancouver.
Photograph depicts a goodyear Blimp cruising over the Centennial Museum near Sunest Beach, False Creek, Vancouver. It came for the 1973 Abbotsford Air Show.
Photograph depicts a C.P.R. grade crossing warning device at Haney.
Photograph depicts a recently constructed grade that ran parallel to the BC Hydro Railway and led to a new super post. A CPR ballast train is visble on the track. Ownership of the line was vested in the BC government.
Photograph depicts the grade of a former railway between Kaslo and New Denver, just on the east side of the summit at Retallack.
Photograph depicts a grader that was working on removing a sharp bend and widening Galena Bay Road.
Photograph depicts the a grain elevator at Wynndel, located at mile 73.8 on the CPR line on the Nelson Subdivision. It is between Creston at mile 67.2 and Kootenay Landing at mile 83.1. Grain elevators are rare in BC and this one belongs to the United Grain Growers. The view is looking east.
Photograph depicts the Grand Forks CPR depot, located at mile 94.8 on the Boundary Subdivision, which runs from Nelson to Midway (127 miles). It was originally built by the Columbia & Western Railway in 1899. IT has not seen a passenger train in years but it is still in use for administrative purposes.
Photograph depicts a B.C. Hydro Railway locomotive switching a flat car filled with construction equipment.
Photograph depicts a B.C. Hydro locomotive switching a flat car carrying a cat crane. Looking west with Granville road bridge in the background.
Plan depicts Granville Island industrial sites in False Creek, Vancouver. Shows revised trackage from 1955 annotated in colour by Davies.
Photograph depicts a gravel pit 1.5 miles north of the McCulloch depot or at approximately mile 78.0, on the Carmi Subdivision. It has not been in use since at least the late 1950s. The rails here are worn and dated 1910 and 1920s. The view is looking north.
Photograph depicts a gravel pit located 1.5 miles north of McCulloch CPR depot, which is at approximately mile 78, on the Carmi Subdivision. The gravel pit has not been used for at least 20 years. The picture also shows a disused spur line.
Photograph depicts a disused gravel pit near the McCulloch CPR depot, on the Carmi Subdivision. The pit had not been used for at least 20 years. The view is looking south.
Photograph depicts a Great Canadian Rail Tour Company train, the Rocky Mountaineer, on CN track, north of Walhachin.
Photograph depicts the rear of the Great Northern depot on Main St. in Vancouver, that is now demolished.
Photograph depicts the Great Northern Railway (now Burlington-Northern Railway) line between Spokane and Nelson. Visible is a shed for lumber. Image captured looking upgrade and northeast. It had a 27 car siding.
Photograph depicts the Burlington-Northern Railroad, formerly the Great Northern Railway. Image captures sandblasting abrasives planted on the western edge of Grand Forks. Visible is a Canadian Pacific locomotive #8650 switching on Burlington-Northern tracks.
Photograph depicts the Great Northern Railway, now called the Burlington-Northern Railway which had a branch line from Kettle Falls to "Republic" that at one point crossed into Canada via Grand Forks. The view shows the exit (cattle guard) from Canada (B.C.) to Washington.
Photo the depot in Keremeos that had been locked up and deserted after the agency had moved to Oroville, Washington in January 1971. However, the truck to Keremeos was still used for freight traffic, if infrequently. Rails in the photograph were dated 1913.
Photograph depicts Great Northern Railway freight heading south having just come off of the New Westminster government rail bridge.
Photograph depicts a former Great Northern Railway grade. Image captured looking towards the east, at an intact trestle. The line curves 180 degrees at the right of the photo, just avioding the boundary that comes up behind the camera to a former whistle stop called Myncaster. The line was thought to be pulled in 1938. It connected Midway to Oroville.
Photograph depicts a former Great Northern Railway grade. Image captured looking towards the east, across a meadow formerly crossed by a trestly and into a short 50 yard tunnel. Just beyond, was a small ranch with a one car spur known as "Bergen." The line connected Midway to Oroville and was believed to have been dismantled in 1938.
Photograph depicts trackage of the Great Northern Railway which changed to the Burlington-Northern Railway. The site is not known for sure, but Davies believed it to be near Salmo.
Photograph depicts the Great Northern Railway (now the Burlington-Northern Railway) which had a branch from the states to the states. Salmo was the approximatley the half-way point. The depot in was built in 1923. Facilities included a wye, 18 car siding, and an ore/gravel chute.
Photograph depicts the Great Northern Railway (now the Burlington-Northern Railway) line that ran from Spokane to Nelson. Salmo marked the halfway point of B.C. trackage. The depot in Salmo was built in 1923 and was the most important intermediate station on the line in B.C.
Photograph depicts the Great Northern Railway (now the Burlington-North Railway) line between Spokane and Nelson. It had opened in December 1893. Passenger traffic was steam to 1928, gas to 1941, then was discontinued. Details of the GNR switch stand found in the Salmo yard.
Photograph depicts an ore/gravel ramp for dumping into gondola cars on the western side of the Salmo yard.
Photograph depicts the Great Northern Railway station in main street Vancouver. Image captured looking west with the CNR trackage to the left. Lifted track in the foreground used to be depot track. Visible are switchers and a sand car found behind them.
Photograph depicts a Great Northern Railway interchange curve to CPR tracks near Raymur Avenue/ Powell Street, Vancouver. Visible is a part of an export train, consisting of 11 (dead) General Motor locomotives hauled by a GNR switcher towards the Centennial Dock area. The process of destruction was to take place in Pusan by Korean National Railways.
Photograph depicts Raymur Avenue/Powell Street grade crossing. Image captured looking south at Burlington-Northern (former Great Northern Railway) trackage. Visible are the last 4 locomotives of an 11 locomotive (all dead) train hauled by a GN switcher. Export ship was to travel to Korean National Railways, Pusan, Korea.
Photograph depicts the Great Northern Railway depot at Keremeos and the terminus of the line from Wenatchee, Washington, U.S.A. The line stops about 1/3 mile beyond this point. At one time it ran on to Hedley mine and possibly Princeton.
Photograph depicts the Great Northern Railway former station at Cascade, just north of the Canada-U.S. border and 15 miles east of Grand Forks. The line connects Kettle Falls and Grand Forks, but the station is now disused but in good repair. The view is looking south towards Washington State.
Photograph depicts a Great Northern Railway freight train travelling south over trestle at the south end of a New Westminster rail bridge, at the point where the Great Northern Railway tracks swings westward.
Photograph depicts the Great Northern Railway line in northeastern Washington State in the Columbia River valley. The photo depicts Great Northern Railway (GNR)locomotive #684 with 23 empty ore cars and caboose stopped and deserted at grade crossing, about 8 miles south of Northport, south of Trail. Presumably this line is a spur to a quarry or mine in the hills.
Photograph depicts a set of 4 scale testing cars, consisting of 2 sealed tank cars and 2 special purpose-made cars, one of which was 4-wheeled. Found at the CPR Kamloops yard.
Photograph depicts one of the 4 cars in a scale testing group found at the Kamloops CPR yard.
Photograph depicts a part of a group of 4 scaling testing cars found in the Kamloops CPR yard.
Photograph depicts 2 cars of the group of 4 car 'Scale Test Unit" at the CPR Kamloops yards.
Photograph depicts a Gruman Goose at the Seal Cove Seaplane Base. Several of these planes were in use at this location. At least 6 in total.