Photograph depicts a derelict barn displaying frame construction.
Photograph depicts a derelict barn displaying frame construction.
Photograph depicts the cut where gas pipes rolled in and derailed westbound freight.
Photograph depicts a depot and derelict electricity substation at Coghlan, 9 rail miles east of Langley, looking west.
Photograph depicts the Department of National Defence Armoury headquarters of the British Columbia regiment.
Photograph depicts the Department of Highways ferry named "Nimpkish" that was based in Port McNeill.
Photograph depicts the demolition of a Great Northern Railway depot in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the demolition of the former CPR Pier A at the foot of Thurlow Street in Vancouver. Vancouver Pile Driving Co. undertook the work.
Photograph depicts the demolished site of Nelson Laundries Ltd. The boiler in the foregorund was having tubes removed by a wrecker. The site was to be occupied by a Ford motor dealer.
Photograph depicts the demolished site of Nelson Laundries Ltd. The boiler in the foregorund was having tubes removed by a wrecker. The site was to be occupied by a Ford motor dealer.
Photograph depicts houses being demolished on Beach Ave, West End, Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the demolition of a CN roundhouse at the Kamloops Junction.
Photograph depicts the Delta Municipal Hall on Main St. in Ladner, B.C.
Photograph depicts deck details of an idle car. A small cabin was behind the camera. Side bins appeared to be tender remnants.
Photograph depicts deck details, looking towards the cabin. Taken from the crane deck.
Photograph depicts a dead end stop at the CPR Penticton yard.
Subseries consists of prints and negatives depicting railways in British Columbia, as well as a small selection of other subjects such as historical ships, buildings, vehicles, and bridges. All photographs created by David Davies.
Photograph taken in Trout Lake City which had no electricity, so the pumps displayed were hand worked. The car belonged to the Davies family. It was a 1953 Vauxhall Velox.
The David Davies Railway Collection encompasses all facets of railway history specifically in the province of British Columbia and the Yukon territory. The collection consists of research material accumulated over the course of more than fifty years, and includes monographs, periodicals, articles, clippings, railway timetables, photographs, maps and plans, and excerpts. Material covers public, tourist, and private (industrial) railways, including: CPR, KVR, E&N; CNR, CNoR, GTPR; and PGER, BCR. The collection excludes material regarding streetcar systems and rapid transit, but includes long distance electric interurbans.
Photograph depicts curves at the loop ends of the Princeton to Jura track.
Photograph depicts curves at the loop ends of the Princeton to Jura track.
Photograph depicts a crosspiece of an unusable "Y" (the reason for it). It appeared that the piece was used to offload items and in time, distorted the track. All 3 switches of the "Y" and total trackage were still in place.
Photograph depicts a railway track crossover. The Comox Logging & Railway Co. tracks (left to right) cross the Esquimalt & Nanaimo tracks (bottom to top). The MacMillan Bloedel & Powell River Logging Railway tracks join the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway just above the crossing. The Velco Tower appears to the right of the crossing. This crossing is one mile north of Ladysmith, with the view looking north to Nanaimo.
Postcard depicts the crossing of "The Loop."
Postcard depicts a CPR streamliner crossing the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
Photograph depicts the crossing of the CNR mainline over the former CPR Kettle Valley Line at mile 53.6 from Brookmere. The speed restriction was 15 mph and the crossing was controlled by signals that interlocked automatically. The view is looking east.
Photograph depicts the Creston Sawmills Ltd on the CPR line. Here the southern BC CPR mainline passes through the center of trackage, looking eastbound. A chip car is on the spur directly leading from the camera.
Photograph depicts a crane and tugboat docked at an unknown location.
Photograph depicts a water tank that was now part of the Cranbrook Railway Museum.
Photograph depicts locomotive cars waiting for stage two of the Cranbrook Railway Museum's development of artifacts.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of railway features in Cranbrook, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts Craigellachie station, a famous spot on the C.P.R. line. The trans-continental line was joined here on November 7, 1885, about 250 yards down the track just beyond the right hand colour aspect signal. The depot house is not manned, used by the line side crews to store equipment. In former days it was a passing point, but there are very few houses in the area now.
Photograph depicts the CPR yards at Drake St. The view is looking east to the Cambie St. bridge in Vancouver. The track behind the camera leads to the Homer St. warehouse complex.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. yards on Cambie St. in Vancouver, B.C. The view is looking west with False Creek on the left (out of the picture), after a snowfall.
Photograph depicts the CPR yards in Vancouver, adjacent to Centennial Pier. The view is looking west.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. yards just west of downtown passenger station and in front of Pier B, owned by the C.P.R. The view is looking northwest from Burrard St.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. yards in Vancouver, just west of railway station in the downtown area. The view is looking east from Burrard St.
Photograph depicts a general view of the C.P.R. yards at False Creek in Vancouver, B.C.
Photograph depicts the CPR locomotive yards at Drake St. in Vancouver. The disused winch in shack is used for moving cars into the repair shed. There is bushes growing out of the track.
Photograph depicts lumber mill yard at the end of the 31st mile. A brand line is beside Slocan Lake. Shows flat chip and E bulkhead cars of C.P's as well as 500 flat cars.
Photograph depicts mechanized tie replacements.
Photograph depicts a ballast car filled with gravel, not track ballast.
Photograph depicts the rear view of an elevator showing its name. Track was on the far side.
Photograph depicts a grain elevator which Wynndel was famous for.
Photograph depicts a grain elevator that had a 7 car spur to service it. Davies doubted if grain traffic ever moved by rail near Wynndel. Two flat cars appeared to have used the platform to overload machinery and vehicles.
Photograph taken looking north, with a spur in the foreground. It was used by ore mixed freight daily. It was believed that at the bottom of the grade was a junction with a GNR branch that ran from the US border south of Creston to Kootenay Lake (built in 1904, then was hardly used, finally ceased in 1910).
Photograph depicts a C.P.R. wrecking train unit at Vancouver station.
Photograph depicts a C.P.R. wrecking crane at the Vancouver station.
Photograph depicts CPR wreck crane #414475 and reach car # 402093. The crane has a 200 ton capacity and was manufactured in 1929 by the Industrial Brownhoist Corp. in Cleveland, Ohio. It's a type 2, steam crane #5162. Freestanding it is 30ft. The radius equals a 17 ton lift and outrigged at 17ft , 200 ton lift. Nelson lies 138 miles to the west.
Photograph depicts a CPR wreck crane stationed in Kamloops. It had just come from a crash site about 7 miles south from a hauling hopper car on a makeshift set up. Nearest set of tracks belonged to the car and were properly placed. Rear set of bogies were taken from the wreck site and the end of the wrecked car was placed on them.