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2013.6.36.1.014.27 · Item · Apr. 1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the steam tug "Seaswell" on the Pitts River, between a railway and road bridge. It was formerly owned by Vancouver Tug and used for towing log booms in open sea. It was last used by them in 1960/1961. The towing gear was recently removed but the steam reciprocating engines are still intact.

Steam tug, "Naramata"
2013.6.36.1.066.10 · Item · Mar. 1978
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a former sternwheeler building and repair slipway as well as a steam tug called the "Naramata." Steamer passengers ceased at the location in 1935 and rail service to the "Landing" in 1940.

Steam tug, "Naramata"
2013.6.36.1.066.09 · Item · [21 July 1968]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a slipway in the foreground that displays one of five cradles and ways for hauling steamwheelers sideways out of water. The steam tug called the "Naramata" is visible in the background.

2013.6.36.1.014.29 · Item · [May 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts steam tugs "Master" and "Prestige" at N.H.B. #4 Elevator in Vancouver Harbour. The "Prestige" has not been fired or looked after for at least 2- 3 years and had been moved to this position the previous day after being tied up elsewhere in the harbour in one position for over 12 months.

2013.6.36.3.08.26 · Item · [before 1949]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Postcard depicts a "massive 4-4-0 wood burning locomotive ready to enter the turn table from the round house. These CPR locomotives were in common use from 1886 until 1915, running from the Kootenays through the Fraser Canyon."

"Summit City"
2013.6.36.3.06.16 · Item · [before 1949]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Postcard depicts "Summit City" in Rogers Pass, built in 1886 and existed only for the consctruction of the CPR.

2013.6.36.1.016.21 · Item · 9 Oct. 1971
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the CPR swing bridge crossing the Harrison River at Harrison Mills. It is a plate girder bridge carrying a double track. The bridge tender occupied a shanty at the east end of the bridge at mile 68.3 from North Bend. The timetable states that trains may proceed at restricted speed after stopping, if the tender fails to appear after 4 whistle signals and the hone signals show stop.

Switcher #8106
2013.6.36.1.098.05 · Item · Aug. 1997
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts switcher #8106 that served the 3 mile branch to a pulp mill. The switcher pulled with heavy string of loaded cars from the mill. The trip was a caboose run. Locomotive built in 1958 as part of a batch of 31. 17 of them remained in 1997.

Switcher and caboose
2013.6.36.1.098.04 · Item · Aug. 1997
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts switcher #8106 and caboose #434612 that just arrived with a loaded train from a pulp mill. To the left lay the main track to Nelson.

Tank car
2013.6.36.1.136.26 · Item · [May 2007]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts an old tank car owned by a logging railway on Vancouver Island, parked at the end of a spur behind a locomotive shed of the Alberni Pacific Railway.

"The Canadian"
2013.6.36.3.05.10 · Item · [after 1949]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Postcard depicts "Canadian Pacific's all Stainless Stel Scenic Dome Streamliner-"The Canadian"-in the Canadian Rockies."

"The Canadian"
2013.6.36.3.08.01 · Item · [after 1949]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Postcard depicts "VIA Rail Canada Nos. 6456 and 6454 hauling Train No. 1, "The Canadian" between Spences Bridge and Drynoch, British Columbia, on Canadian Pacific's Thompson Subdivision, having been delayed by the need to detour, from its usual route, on Canadian National's Ashcroft Subdivision, seen here across the Thompson River. May 14, 1993."