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Photograph depicts stationed gauge trackage that was owned privately and laid near a concentrator that connected the CPR Kimberley branch. Visible are various spurs to wharehouses and sheds.

Photograph depicts the Cominco Mine Railway and the private Sullivan Mine. This section was near a concentrator as well as Chapman Camp. Davies suggested that it could a stationed gauge connector between the CPR Kimberley branch line and the concentrator that was used for incoming supplies and machinery.

Photograph depicts the commencement of the B.C. Electric Railway right-of-way at Commercial Dr. and near 22nd Ave. in Vancouver. It was built in 1891. The view is looking southeast towards New Westminster.

Photograph depicts ballast car #175 built by Western Wheeled Scraper Company, Aurora, Illinois.

Photograph depicts a Comox Logging and Railway Company grade about a mile north of the diamond crossing. Track was used once daily for a train of about 20 cars. The grade was first built as a private railway between the Extension Mine and Ladysmith circa 1900-1925, then the section between Ladysmith and Nanaimo River was converted to a logging railway in about 1935-1940 and was extended up Nanaimo River Creek.

Photograph depicts a small yard switcher used to switch cars in and out of repair shops. It was in use when the photograph was taken.

Photograph taken half of a mile north of the diamond crossing. Visible is a distant signal protecting the crossing. Davies noted that it had not been used for many years.

Photograph depicts the last logs being removed from a 20 car log train which had just arrived from Nanaimo Lakes. Each car held 2 bundles, each of about 20 logs. These in turn were assembled into a large boom and then were towed to the mainland. Cars were emptied by a mechanical prodder and mounted on an old shay frame.

Photograph depicts the division of Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd in Ladysmith.

Photograph depicts the division of Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd in Ladysmith. Visible is a fire car with a former locomotive headlight attached to it.

Photograph depicts a homemade snow plough that had a short wheel base between the trucks. The design of its main frame suggets that it might have been a crane before conversion to its present use.

Photograph depicts a former steam locomotive shed.

Photograph depicts a view of the Ladysmith yard, looking north, about 300 yards east of the city centre.

Photograph depicts the outside of the Comox Logging head office in Ladysmith.

Photograph depicts a daily log train from Nanaimo Lakes. About 20 cars were being unloaded at a rather fast rate of 30-60 seconds per car using a mechanical prodder mounted on the frames of an old shay locomotive.

Photograph depicts a deisel switcher #107.

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.

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.