Photograph depicts Goldstream station on mile 10.7. The section house is deserted and derelict. Image captured looking towards the south east towards Victoria. At this point, the grade begins to steepen to climb the Malahat.
Photograph depicts the CPR Esquimalt & Nanaimo Depot in Victoria, Vancouver Island. One car "R.D.C" unit is pullling out right on time at 8:30 a.m. for a 139 mile trip to Courtenay which arrives there at 12.40 hrs. The car behind the "R.D.C" is a CPR #4 and is not attached.
Photograph depicts a CPR engineering/track monitor tain that was propelled by 2 switcher locomotives.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. engineering shops at Revelstoke. The view is looking north, with the line from Arrowhead behind the camera.
Photograph depicts a C.P.R. eastbound freight train at passing loop at Illecillewaet, between Rogers Pass and Revelstoke. The April 25, 1965 CPR Employee timetable lists the mileage at Illecillewaet as 98.2 with a siding capacity of 85 cars. The view in this photograph is taken from a string of work cars on the siding.
Photograph depicts the caboose of a log train of about 30 log cars standing on a spur at the Duncan station. The air whistle suggests the train is propelled at some stage on its journey.
Photograph depicts the CPR Drake St. yards in Vancouver. It shows CPR locomotive #3716, 2-8-0 Consolidation. It was built in February 1929 at the Montreal Locomotive Works. It was acquired in 1966 from the CPR by the city of Port Coquitlam. The locomotive is not renovated or repainted, and the fire box is in poor shape. Considering that is has been 5 years in the open it has little or no vandalism. All gauges in the cab are still intact.
Photograph depicts the CPR Drake St. yards in Vancouver. It shows CPR locomotive #3716, 2-8-0 Consolidation. It was built in February 1929 at the Montreal Locomotive Works. It was acquired in 1966 from the CPR by the city of Port Coquitlam. The locomotive is not renovated or repainted, and the fire box is in poor shape. Considering that is has been 5 years in the open it has little or no vandalism. All gauges in the cab are still intact.
Photograph depicts the east side of the upper harbour. Locomotive #6702 on Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway street trackage crossing Chatham Street in south direction and entering premises of B. Wilson Co. Ltd Cold and Frozen Storage which has a spur that will take 2 (maybe 3) box cars. The empty box car (# 18705) is about to be removed.
Photograph depicts the east side of the upper harbour in downturn Victoria. At some point a loaded box car was propelled into B. Wilson Company Limited Cold and Frozen Storage on Chatham Street. This could have been the start of the movement. Photo looks south on State Street.
Photograph depicts the east side of the upper harbour. The Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway switches the #6702 pullling box car. The CPR 18705 is running south. Taking empty car from B. Wilson Co. Ltd. Cold and Frozen Storage back to the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yards on far side of the harbour.
Photograph depicts the east side of the upper harbour. Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway locomotive #6702 that is returning with an empty box car #18705 at th point where Chatham Street meets State Street (located north of where the photograph was taken). Looking north at the train moving south. Currently 4 spurs on State st. There is a cement plant. The "m/c" works with two others. Except for the cement plant, little or not much is used.
Photograph depicts the east side of the upper harbour. Locomotive #6702 coupling up to empty box cars located on premises of B. Wilson Co. Ltd. Cold and Frozen Storage. Looking south in the photograph with Chatham Street in the foreground.
Photograph depicts the east side of the upper harbour. The Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway has street railway trackage from the east end of Esquimalt bridge along State street with spurs leaving off, plus a freight terminal between Chatham and Discovery Streets. Locomotive #6702 travelling north at State Street and is about to turn east to freight terminal.
Photograph depicts a CPR Dot passing loop at mile 20.3 from Spences Bridge to Merritt. It shows the remains of a water tower and station house. The view is looking west.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. dining car "Althorp" in False Creek yards in Vancouver, B.C.
Postcard depicts a CPR diesel electric train and Mt. Eisenhower in the Canadian Rockies.
Photograph depicts car #4 spotted at the end of the passenger track with depot building at left. This photograph is looking towards the east and north at the CPR depot in Victoria, Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts train #1 leaving the depot right on time at 8:30 p.m. for a 139 mile run to Courtenay. It is just about to cross the Johnson Street bridge. It is picking up speed and captured here is the departing shot as the "RDC" unit travels west away from the camera.
Photograph depicts a shay locomotive which was last steamed in service on October 9, 1973. Here, it was en-route to the National Museum of Sciene in Ottawa. It was off-loaded at the CPR dock from the Gulf of Georgia barge. Now it was to be loaded onto a depressed flat car for the trip to Ottawa.
Photograph depicts a close up of a shay locomotive last steamed in service at the Elk Falls Mile near Campbell River on October 9, 1973. Here, it was on en-route to the National Museum of Sciene in Ottawa after being off-loaded from a Gulf of Georgia barge at the CPR "A" dock.
Photograph depicts a close up of a shay locomotive last steamed in service at the Elk Falls Mile near Campbell River on October 9, 1973. Here, it was on en-route to the National Museum of Sciene in Ottawa after being off-loaded from a Gulf of Georgia barge at the CPR "A" dock. It was to travel east on a CPR hail depressed flat car.
Photograph depicts a shay locomotive en-route for preservation at the National Museum of Science in Ottawa. It was previously owned by Elk Falls Ltd., near Campbell River, Vancouver Island and was taken out of regular service on October 9, 1973.
Photograph depicts a close up of a shay locomotive last steamed in service at the Elk Falls Mile near Campbell River on October 9, 1973. Here, it was on en-route to the National Museum of Sciene in Ottawa after being off-loaded from a Gulf of Georgia barge at the CPR "A" dock.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. station at Spences Bridge. The view is looking south at a departing freight train.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. depot at Spences Bridge. The view is looking south and shows a northbound freight train moving along the track.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. depot at Slocan City. At the left beyond the photo is the ferry slip on Slocan Lake.
Photograph depicts the CPR depot at Salmon Arm. It is occupied and in use. The view is looking east.
Photograph depicts the CPR depot at Proctor, located at mile 117.5 from Cranbrook on the Nelson Subdivision. David Davies notes: "The view is looking east and shows the spur at right leading to a barge slip on Kootenay Lake. The majority of the spur rails here are dated 1908-1910." An updated description provided by a subject expert suggests that this view is actually looking west.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. depot at Princeton, looking east.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. depot at Oliver. There is a way freight stopped at the depot, either before or after switching.
Photograph depicts the CPR depot at Okanagan Falls, located at mile 10.6 from Penticton. The depot is locked and unused but it used to be the southern terminus of Skaha Lake when the line first opened in 1922. When the route along the edge of Skaha Lake was built, the Okanagan lost its barge and car slips in 1931. There is also a water pump at the right of the depot.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. depot at New Westminster.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. depot at Goldstream on Vancouver Island. The view is looking towards Victoria.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. depot at Duncan on Vancouver Island, with a view looking northeast.
Photograph depicts the CPR depot at Chase, which is no longer in use.
Photograph depicts the CPR depot at Castlegar. The left-hand track leads to Trail and the right-hand track to Midway and Penticton. The picture was taken at about 1 pm with the Nelson to Midway way freight train standing at the depot. The caboose was built in 1913. The view is looking west.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. depot at Canal Flats on the Golden-Cranbrook line. The ex box car depot now is used only to make line phone calls.
Photograph depicts the CPR depot at Armstrong. It is located about mile 32 from Sicamous on the Okanagan Subdivision. The view is looking south.
Postcard depicts the Kamloops CPR depot and gardens.
Postcard depicts the Kamloops CPR depot and gardens.
Photograph depicts a C.P.R. dayliner just leaving the Courtenay Depot and travelling south. This track is part of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway.
Postcard depicts the CPR crossing Skuzzy River, Fraser Canyon, BC
Photograph depicts a CNR crane trolley/car that had shackles on all four corners latched onto its rails to prevent overbalancing.
Photograph depicts a CPR crane at Osprey lake on the Kettle Valley Railway line. It is located at mile 38.8 on the Princeton Subdivision. The crane is #414204, manufactured by Browning in Cleveland, Ohio.
Photograph depicts a CPR crane at Osprey lake on the Kettle Valley Railway line. It is located at mile 38.8 on the Princeton Subdivision. The crane is #414204, manufactured by the Browning Crane and Shovel Co. in Cleveland, Ohio. It is model NL 300 locomotive crane, with a boom length of 38 to 55 ft. and a lifting capacity with a varying radius from 30 T to 40 T.
Photograph depicts an air operated crane mounted to a rail sledge and flangeless wheels, on flat car #308832. It was built in June 1911.
Photograph depicts the view of the CPR yard in Cranbrook, looking west from the depot.
Photograph depicts two parked CPR snow plows.
Photograph depicts a train departing for the Crow's Nest Pass.