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CPR snow plow
2013.6.36.1.109.18 · Item · [15 Dec. 2000]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a never used CPR snow plow, built in 1921 at Angus Shops in Montreal. Spotted at the Kamloops depot.

CPR snow plow
2013.6.36.1.109.17 · Item · [15 Dec. 2000]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a CPR snow plow, built in 1921 at Angus Shops in Montreal. Spotted at the Kamloops depot.

2013.6.36.1.015.19 · Item · [26 June 1971]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a CPR signal tower protecting the road crossing at Alexander and Columbia Streets on the downtown eastside, leading to the Kingcome Navigation Dock. The view is looking east.

CPR siding at Coalmont, BC
2013.6.36.1.021.09 · Item · 12 Sept. 1971
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the CPR siding at Coalmont, BC, located at mile 82.2 from Penticton on the Princeton Subdivision. To the left of the left-hand siding was an extensive coal loading yard of the Blakeburn Coal Mine, which was in use until it closed in 1940. The view is looking north.

2013.6.36.1.030.12 · Item · Aug. 1983
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts locomotive #8821 on barge with a box car on a floating connector and caboose still partly on dry land. It is 7:00 p.m. and raining. The barge and content remained here overnight and was towed to Slocan city on the next day.

2013.6.36.1.030.11 · Item · Aug. 1983
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the first 3 cars that are already placed on a barge by locomative. Now returning will be the 2nd rate, consisting of locomatives: one box car and caboose. It is 7:00 p.m. and also raining.

CPR Savona
2013.6.36.1.053.25 · Item · 13 Oct. 1980
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the spur to the used mine machinery depot of the Nelson Machinery Company Ltd. The rail found in the middle distance was property of this company, not the CPR.

2013.6.36.1.015.28 · Item · [May 1971]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a CPR roundhouse at the False Creek yards in Vancouver. The tender of stored locomotive #2860 is protruding, as the house cannot taken the length of this locomotive. Locomotive #2860 is a 4-6-4 Royal Hudson, built in 1940 at the Montreal Locomotive Works. It is now owned by Mr. J. Hussey of West Vancouver.

CPR Rosebery barge slip
2013.6.36.1.055.17 · Item · 10 Aug. 1983
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a barge slop on Slocan Lake. Displayed are the details of rail joints that were moored between, while the floating the and trackage were on dry ground.

CPR Rosebery barge slip
2013.6.36.1.055.18 · Item · 10 Aug. 1983
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a barge slop on Slocan Lake. Visible is transfer barge #6 and a tug "Iris G" found alongside it. The lake operation was contracted out in 1956.

CPR Rosebery barge
2013.6.36.1.055.16 · Item · 10 Aug. 1983
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts barge #6 coupled to a rail barge slip at the northern end of Slocan Lake. A locomotive had already switched 3 cars onto the barge. It included 2 pole cars and a refrigerator box holding lumber.

CPR Rosebery
2013.6.36.1.055.22 · Item · 10 Aug. 1983
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the beginning of the 27 mile branch to Nakusp. Visible is an 8-10 car transfer barge #6 and a tug named "Iris G."

CPR Rionadel loading slip
2013.6.36.1.055.19 · Item · 12 Sept. 1970
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a loading slip for a CPR car barge for lead and zinc from the Cominco Bluebell mine. Bluebell is the oldest semi-continously worked mine in B.C., dating back to the Native and Hudson Bay Co. musket ball days. 3 barge loads were removed per week.

CPR rail yard at Haney, BC
2013.6.36.1.016.27 · Item · 14 Oct. 1974
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the outer western limits of the CPR yard at Haney. The car is loaded with poles about 15 to 20 ft. log, 2 sets per car, which had been loaded somewhere else in BC within the previous week.

2013.6.36.1.021.13 · Item · [13 May 1979]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the CPR line at about mile 50.5 on the Merritt Subdivision. It is south of Glenwalker and south of Merritt. It carries three freights per week. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday is northbound, and Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday is southbound.

2013.6.36.1.021.16 · Item · [13 May 1979]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the CPR line at about mile 50.5 from Spences Bridge, on the Merritt Subdivision. This point is south of Glenwalker and carries 3 freights per week. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday is northbound, and Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday is southbound. The view is looking north.

CPR rail line at Brookmere
2013.6.36.1.021.01 · Item · [24 May 1973]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the CPR rail line at Brookmere, 30 miles south of Merritt. The view is looking north, taken with back to a three stall engine roundhouse, which had been crudely dismantled. A boarded up depot lies about 150 yards to the left of the photo. Brookmere was once a thriving railway town, accessible only by rail. Some of the rail noted was Algoma stall, 85 lbs., and dated to 1910 and 1913.

CPR rail line at Brookmere
2013.6.36.1.021.02 · Item · [24 May 1973]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the CPR rail line at Brookmere, 30 miles south of Merritt. It shows a general view of the yard. The corner of the depot can be seen at the extreme right edge. Beyond the turntable lies the site of a demolished 3 stall engine house. Most of the yard has been abandoned, with on attempt to clean up the trackage. The photo look south.

CPR rail line at Brookmere
2013.6.36.1.021.03 · Item · [24 May 1973]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the CPR line at Brookmere, 30 miles south of Merritt. It is a general view of the abandoned yards. The yards were built on a small amount of flat land available right at the summit. A 1956 schedule shows it was quite a busy place; the eastbound passenger train passed through at 0250 hrs. and the westbound at 0425 hrs., via Hope not Merritt. The view is looking north.

CPR rail line at Brookmere
2013.6.36.1.021.04 · Item · [24 May 1973]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the CPR line at Brookmere, 30 miles south of Merritt (now mile 108.7 on the Princeton Subdivision). Summit point is at 3200 ft. between Spences Bridge, Hope, and Princeton. The Kettle Valley Railway carved out a railway town in the wilderness in 1914/1915 to hold about 300 people. The men were train crews and track a gangs, particularly for the troublesome Coquihalla route. The photo includes the boarded up depot and the view is looking north.

2013.6.36.1.013.69 · Item · Mar. 1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the C.P.R. rail ferry transfer #4, registered at Victoria. It is tied to the western side of C.P.R. Pier A! at Vancouver. It holds four tracks and is not self-propelled.

CPR rail barge slip
2013.6.36.1.030.05 · Item · Aug. 1983
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a barge slip on Slocan Lake. This is the northern terminal of lake service. The railway runs north from the lake to Nakusp which is approximately 27 miles. Looking north. Rails in this area weigh 80-85 Ibs. Dated 1901-1911, Algoma, Lorain.

CPR rail barge #6
2013.6.36.1.030.13 · Item · Aug. 1983
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts barge #6 after being loaded with 2 pole cars (CP 301595/945, built in 1954 and 1955) and refrigerators (CP 286 442) holding white pine destined for the USA. All "ex." mills at Nakusp. Time: 7:00 p.m. on a Thursday and it is raining. Stern of barge is the nearest to the camera. Tracks diverge to allow captains mounting at the center of the Stern.

2013.6.36.1.055.13 · Item · 15 Sept. 1970
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a barge loading slip that was used tri-weekly for Kootenay Lake freight from Riondal, Kaslo, and Lardeau. It was formerly part of the southern B.C. route of the CPR where all traffic had to be barged from Proctor to Sirdor-Kootenay Landing.

C.P.R. Pritchard depot
2013.6.36.1.007.108 · Item · Oct. 1965
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the C.P.R. Pritchard depot, 25 miles east of Kamloops. The passenger turnstile is unusual though found elsewhere in this area. The depot is long unused for passengers and is now used by a permanent way gang.

CPR Princeton spur line
2013.6.36.1.155.05 · Item · [July 1988]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a CPR spur line (located on the right), running off from the 'main line' that went from Princeton to Penticton. The spur led to a sawmill.