Photograph depicts the C.P.R. station in Abbotsford, looking south.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. station at Merritt, halfway between Spences Bridge and Brockmere Junction. The line is in active use.
Photograph depicts a C.P.R. steam driven tracked crane at Revelstoke, BCIt was only marked "C.P. Service E.I."
Photograph depicts the crumbling CPR stock yard at Lytton in the Fraser Valley.
Photograph depicts a CPR storehouse at Mission City. It was marked as "Petroleum Store" but in fact was holding speeders and miscellaneous track equipment. It was sited on the north side of the track at the extreme east end of the depot platform.
Photograph depicts a southbound C.P.R. streamliner at the Mud Bay crossing on Vancouver Island. This part of track belongs to the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, and the crossing is being re-sited.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. summit of the southern transcontinental C.P. line at Crowsnest Pass on the Alberta-B.C. border. The roundhouse is disused. Four men are working on the turntable; it is unclear whether they are rebuilding its eastern face or demolishing it by breaking down one wall to get at the table. The site is 4,453 ft. above sea level and the view is looking south.
Photograph depicts a CPR bridge over Pitt River.
Phoyo depicts a CPR swing bridge in Sicamous.
Photograph depicts a tank car being pumped on the north side of the main line track, about 1/4 mile west of the Salmon Arm CPR depot. The view is looking east.
Photograph depicts CPR tender #415819 at Revelstoke. A painted notice had a date 1956 but otherwise there was no info as to its origins. The use is unknown.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. terminal in Vancouver. A C.P.R. switcher is collecting cars from the "Princess of Vancouver" at about 7 p.m.
Photograph depicts the terminal of Slocan Subdivision at Mile 31.3. The old station is lettered "Mayook" and was used as a train crew shed.
Photograph depicts a terminus of the Slocan Subdivision. The branch is 31 mile long. Various fitments were thrown on the beach of Slocan Lake near where the barge apron touches land.
Photograph depicts a C.P.R. three locomotive unit approaching the south end of the yard at North Bend in the Fraser Canyon. The view is looking south.
Photograph depicts C.P.R. trackage at Naramata, B.C. on the east side of Okanagan Lake and 11 miles north of Penticton. This is an isolated piece of trackage about 250 yards in length, served by scows, with a quite involved layout. The refrigerated box car was built in 1950.
Photograph depicts the CPR trackage north of McCulloch depot. The west track is passing, the mid is mainline, and the east track is storage. The depot is located at mile 76.6 on the Carmi Subdivision, about 27 miles northeast of Penticton.
Photograph depicts CPR trackage about 1 mile south of McCulloch depot and at about mile 75.5, on the Carmi Subdivision. At the right of the line is evidence of an old spur and log dump [from?] at least 1930-1940s. The view is looking south or downgrade, and the elevation here is about 4100 ft.
Photograph depicts the CPR trackage north of McCulloch depot. The depot was located at mile 76.6 on the Carmi Subdivision. This is at about the summit of the whole subdivision.
Photograph depicts CPR trackage at approximately mile 75.5 or about 1 mile south of McCulloch depot. This section is in the Carmi Subdivision and about 17 miles southeast of Kelowna. The dressed granite blocks are believed to be the remains of a "whistle" sign for a crossing, but the blocks are alien to this area.
Photograph depicts a C.P.R. Canadian train about to pass through the washer at False Creek yards in Vancouver, B.C.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. train station at Kaslo. At one time the line ran between Kaslo and Nakusp, via New Denver. It was lifted in 1915-1920. The trackage now consists of Kootenay Lake slip and about 1 mile of sidings. It is used mainly for oil (incoming) and lumber (outgoing).
Photograph depicts a C.P.R. train switching at Osoyoos, B.C.
Photograph depicts a C.P.R. (Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway) trestle bridge with a steel center span, crossing one of the numerous creeks between Mud Bay and Courtenay on Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts a CPR tug called the"Okanagan," at the CPR slip in Kelowna. It had recently been fueled from a tank car that is visible on the left. It was was built in Seattle and assembled at Okanagan Landing.
Photograph depicts a CPR tug called the "Okanagan," located at the Kelowna slip. It was tied to the rail barge wih a steam up.
Photograph depicts a CPR tug named the "Okanagan" that was assembled at the Okanagan landing. It usually tooks 3 hours and 10-15 minutes to travel from Kelowna to Penticton with one rail scow in tow.
Photograph depicts the CPR turntable beside the roundhouse at Revelstoke. The view is looking east.
Photograph depicts a C.P.R. two-loco way freight train switching zinc ore concentrate below Kimberley City but above concentrator, on the Kimberley-Cranbrook line.
Photograph depicts the upper yard of the barge connection with Slocan Lake. Nakusp is on mile 27 towards the north. The shack is the closest thing to a "depot" at this station.
Photograph depicts a daily passenger train north bound passing Goldstream Provincial Park between Goldstream and Niagara at about mile 12 or 13 (from Victoria). The train is reflecting a diesel fume cloud.
Photograph depicts a daily Budd car passenger train north bound passing edge of Goldstream Provincial Park between Goldstream (mile 10.7 from Victoria) and Niagara (about mile 14). It is an upgrade.
Photograph taken on mile 85 which is about 15 miles north of Nanaimo and on the edge of Nanoose Bay. Image captured looking towards the south. The retreating "Dayliner" can be seen in the distance.
Photograph depicts a dayliner on a return trip from Courtenay to Victoria. Track at this point skirts Nanoose Bay about 15 miles north of Nanaimo.
Photograph depicts the Langford Flag Stop on the northern outskirts of Victoria at mile 7.9. The photograph looks toward the terminal at Courtenay. Two passenger trains pass here daily, except on Sundays. 0745 north bound, 1543 southbound, and 3 freights daily, 0257 hrs. south, 0550 hrs. north, and 1819 hrs. north.
Photograph taken at the CPR Vernon station. Way freight visible.
Photograph depicts way freight in use after the removal of cabooses on the main lines in January and February, 1990.
Photograph depicts the CPR Victoria yards. Picture displays former tender as (fire) water carrier #415740.
Photograph depicts the Victoria rail yards. The photograph faces east at the turntable and locomotive shed/roundhouse. 3 or 4 stalls are occupied.
Photograph depicts possibly the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway train shipment sheds. They do not look to be in regular use. The photograph faces towards the east.
Photograph annotation states that image depicts a CPR warehouse located about 1/4 mile east of the Revelstoke depot, on the north side of the track. The view is looking east. Additional information provided by railway historian Tom W. Parkin: This building is the CPR icehouse at Revelstoke after a partial tear-down. The structure was built after 1929, when a similar facility near the locomotive shops was removed between 1920-29, possibly to make room for a larger turntable. The location is on the northwest edge of the CPR yards. Icehouses once made and stored blocks of ice for refrigeration of passenger coaches and (when crushed) for cooling fresh produce in "reefer cars" en route to market.
Photograph depicts CPR water service car #415222 at Ashcroft. The car was attached to a work crew train.
Photograph depicts CPR waterfront trackage in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the CPR waterfront yards in Vancouver Harbour. Roil was on the displayed flat car in order to build a new spur the led to a recently constructed rail-ferry slip.
Photograph depicts the CPR way freight about 1 mile west of Dot (mile 20.3 from Spences Bridge) on the Spences Bridge-Merritt line, travelling east. There are about 20 cars in the train.
Photograph depicts a C.P.R. way-freight at the disused Wellington Depot on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, 4 miles north of Nanaimo.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. westbound 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.
Photo was taken approximately five minutes north of Duncan, Vancouver Island. Steel passenger car #411292 is visible and has been converted to a bunk and mess car as part of a work train on a stations spur. There are 6 wheel trucks. There is no date indicated for the building.
Photo was taken approximately five minutes north of Duncan, Vancouver Island. A track crane is visible.
Photo was taken approximately five minutes north of Duncan, Vancouver Island. A work train on the siding, including a steel passenger car #411292 are visible.