Photograph depicts an auto special at New Westminster, travelling west to McPherson Ave. industrial estate in south Burnaby.
Photograph depicts a boom tug called "Atlas Captain" that was brought in for refitting, adjacent to a smalll boat repair yard. It was loaded on a CN gondola car and then removed by a derrick crane.
Postcard depicts the summit of the Selkirk Range. Board in the right foreground says "Rogers Pass 1 Mile."
Photograph taken on the CNR Okanagan Branch, Mile 21, east of a tunnel near Monte Creek. Dated 1938. Captured at the base of a deep embankment that may have resulted from a washout.
Postcard depicts Albert Canyon.
Photograph depicts the ferry from Campbell River approaching the Quathiaski Cove slip on Quadra Island.
Photograph depicts the annual Bath-Tub Race that took place in Nanaimo. Visible is a competitor preparing for the start. There were 106 entries in that year.
Photograph depicts the annual Bath-Tub Race that took place in Nanaimo. Visible are rescue and patrol boats that were about to set out.
Photograph depicts an old anchor that had been fished out of Coal Habour, Vancouver. One flulke was bent in towards the shank. Image captured outside the office of Kanata Marine Ways Ltd. (1965).
Photograph depicts one of the entries in the Nanaimo-Vancouver Bath Tub Race. Thre were 2112 entires and there was 32 mile crossing. Only 46 reached the finish line, of which this was one.
Photograph depicts the last lighthouse on the mainlain about a mile south of Ucuelet. It was believed to be the Amphitrite Point Light House.
Postcard depicts an area along the Thompson River, towards the Fraser Canyon. Looking left, downstream. Westbound CPR freight is visible. Short train by any standards in the 1980s and 1990s.
Photo depict a disused concentrator of the Granby Mining Company Ltd. Located 5 miles southwest of Princeton and 8 miles east of Copper Mountain ore workings, which are also largely disused. The building of the concentrator commenced in 1917 and the first ore was reduced in October, 1920. Ore cars from workings via the CPR spur entered the snow shed that is visible on the left. Rail track was lifted in 1957.
Photograph depicts the Alexandra Bridge in the Fraser Canyon. It is closed to wheeled traffic and has a grid iron deck. Photo looks east.
Photograph depicts the Alexandra Bridge in the Fraser Canyon. It is closed to traffic but is possible to drive a vehicle across but the road is blocked on the east bank. The bridge is in good condition. Photo looks east.
Photograph depicts the Alexandra Bridge in the Fraser Canyon. The view is looking northeast and depicts the Fraser River running downstream to the right of the photo. There is First Nations salmon net pole in the bottom left-hand corner.
Photograph depicts the Alexandra Bridge in the Fraser Canyon, about 20 miles north of Hope. Photo looks to east bank.
Photograph depicts Alexandra Bridge that crossed the Fraser Canyon.
Photograph depicts the Albion Ferry on the Fraser River, as it approaches a ferry slip at Fort Langley.
Photograph depicts a water tank car used for fighting line side fires. Propery of Alberni Pacific tourist railway. Sat in a yard in Port Alberni. Formerly owned by Crown Zellerbach of Ladysmith.
Photograph depicts a train commencing its trip in its yard, not at the station, in Port Alberni. Locomotive at the lower/city end (ie formation at the end of the last trip). It, at the time, needed to get to the head-end, so it took the siding.
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific tourist railway train.
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific Railway locomotive about to uncouple and run around its train. A sawmill station was behind the camera.
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific Railway train that was very close the McLean sawmill (opened in 1926, closed in 1965).
Photograph depicts the Pacific Rails Convention of Victoria on a field trip to Port Alberni. Travelling on the Alberni Pacific Railway to visit a steam-driven sawmill at its outer terminal. Chartered trip for convention members (one coach/bus load) as the line was not yet open for the tourist season.
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific Railway train travelling on Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway track, not used since 2002 and was now at the beginning of a connecting spur to a steam sawmill museum. It was built in 2000, but commenced in the 2001 summer season.
Photograph depicts a tourist train Port Alberni. Its rebuilt water tank had not been used because of WCB harness regulations. Had to fill up from a stand-pipe and hose.
Photograph depicts a tourist train departng on a sawmill spir with the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway main line on the rear.
Photograph depicts the former Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway station in Port Alberni. A returning tourist train is also visible. The station opened on December 20, 1911 and was closed to passengers in 1957. It was used for truck and rail freight until 1988, and then officially closed. The city of Port Alberni purchased it in 1990 and restored it to its original condition.
Photograph depicts a tourist train on Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway track en route to a steam sawmill.
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific tourist train of 3 cars derparting. Each car was a modified caboose.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Alberni Pacific tourist steam railway in Port Alberni, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific tourist railway locomotive. It was built in 1929 by Baldwin.
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific tourist railway locomotive. The railway ran from Port Alberni to the McLean steam sawmill on Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway trackage as well as a newly built spur to the mill, which opened in 1927 and closed in 1956.
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific tourist railway saddle tank locomotive. It was built in 1929 by Baldwin and acquired by Alberni Pacififc Lumber Ltd. in 1941. Then it was leased out in 1951, acquired by Crown Forest Products, Ladysmith in 1973, and sold to the BC government in 1977.
Photograph depicts a tank locomotive of the Alberni Pacific Railway backing onto its train atr the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard in Port Alberni. On the rear left were the premises of a paper mill owne dby Pacifica Papers, virtually the only used of rail services in the city. It had a sufficient volume in order to warrant having its own switcher (daily freight to Nanaimo of 40 cars). Davies notes his disbelief in late 2001 when it was stated that all freight traffic on Vancouver Island would cease on Mar. 5, 2002.
Photograph depicts a locomotive shed and maintenance facility of Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway at the branch terminal in Port Alberni. It was now used by the tourist "Alberni Pacifica Railway." CPR locomotive #8427 found in foreground.
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific Railway locomotive running around its train at the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard in Port Alberni. Track on the right led to the former Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway roundhouse and maintenance facilities that were now used by Alberni Pacific to house its locomotives.
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific tourist railway locomotive backing onto its train of passenger cars (3 opened, 2 closed, all CN transfer cabooses, now remodelled).
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific railway train that was just coming into a run-around loop at the end of a sawmill spur. Trackage built 2000/01.
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific Railway locomotive built in 1929 by Baldwin. After at least four years of restoration, it commenced running in 2001. It was spotted outside of a locomotive shed in Port Alberni.
Photograph depicts CPR locomotive #8427. Property of tourist "Alberni Pacific Railway." Built for the CPR by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1954.
Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific Railway tourist caboose that had its interior modified.
Photograph depicts a ship named "Alaska Prince" at the Northland Pier in Vancouver Harbour.
Photograph depicts an air-sea rescue launch that may been used during World War II. It was located just beside Highway 16, about 5 miles from the centre of Prince Rupert.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of monoplanes in British Columbia.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of 2/4 engine planes and air ships in British Columbia.
Photograph depicts air tanker fire base of the BC Forest Service. Manufactured by Conair Aviation Ltd.
Photograph depicts air tanker fire base of the BC Forest Service. Manufactured by Conair Aviation Ltd.
Photograph depicts air tanker fire base of the BC Forest Service. Manufactured by Conair Aviation Ltd.