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2013.6.36.1.144.03 · Item · Sept. 2001
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a private locomotive owned by a Pacifica Papers Inc. that was to switch to their yards. Opposite their yards was an Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway wye which was being used to stored loaded cars awaiting daily Rail America freight.

2013.6.36.1.135.09 · Item · Oct. 2000
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a Pacific Wilderness Railway caboose after its first season's work that went from June to September. Davies noted the "reproting abbreviation" had been changed from OHCR to PAW. A company decal was also applied.

2013.6.36.1.135.06 · Item · [2 May 2000]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the newly created heritage railway, the Pacific Wilderness Railway, at the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard in Victoria. Visible is a newly painted locomotive that had recently started service in late June of the year the photograph was taken.

2013.6.36.1.011.10 · Item · [8 May 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the Pacific Great Eastern depot in Lillooet. In the photograph is the front coach #31 of a two-coach Budd car train, 5 minutes after arrival, being checked and serviced. On this day this two-coach unit left from North Vancouver at 8 am and arrived at Lillooet at 1:15 pm. It left Lillooet at 4:05 pm and returned to Vancouver at 9:30 pm. The total mileage run was 315 miles.

2013.6.36.1.011.33 · Item · [May 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts that Pacific Great Eastern depot at Horseshoe Bay, awaiting the dayliner to Quesnel. A two-coach Budd car runs from North Vancouver to Lillooet, and then a different 1-coach Budd car continues to Quesnel. It is possible to do a roundtrip from North Vancouver to Lillooet in one day.

2013.6.36.1.010.75 · Item · [May 1965]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the Pacific Coast Bulk Terminals on the North Shore, 1 mile east of Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver. Previously owned by Hillcrest Lumber #11 and Merrill & Ring #5. In the foreground is 90-ton Shay locomotive #115 from the Railway Appliance Research Ltd. It was built by Lima Locomotive Works in 1929 and is builders #3350. It was last owned by Canadian Forest Products on Nimpkish Valley Railway on North Vancouver Island, up until at least the mid-1960s.