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Photograph depicts a CPR wharf building at Okanagan Landing, Okanagan Lake. It was presumably used as a covered slipway and as a store. It was was now boarded up and the rail track between Vernon and Okanagan Landing was removed in 1940.

Photograph depicts the C.P.R. wharf-scow approach ramp at Kelowna, looking east. Okanagan Lake is behind the camera.

Photograph depicts mile 18.5 on Slocan Subdivision looking North. Terminal at Slocan is at mile 31.3. Rails weighed 85 Ibs and were dated 1902 and 1910-1912.

Photograph depicts a CPR work car at Princeton. It is #42238 and originally marked "Auto Mobile." It was built in June 1923. The length is 40'6", width 8'6", and height 10'. The weight LT is 46, 200.

Photograph depicts a CPR work train at Princeton. It shows passenger car #411375, used as cook, dinner, and sleeper. It was built in May 1929. The LT weight is 178, 000.

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.

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 C.P.R. wrecking crane at the Vancouver station.

Photograph depicts a C.P.R. wrecking train unit at Vancouver station.

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 ballast car filled with gravel, not track ballast.

Photograph depicts mechanized tie replacements.

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 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 a general view of the C.P.R. yards at False Creek in Vancouver, B.C.

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 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 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 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 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 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.

Photograph depicts a crane and tugboat docked at an unknown location.

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 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 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.

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 curves at the loop ends of the Princeton to Jura track.

Photograph depicts curves at the loop ends of the Princeton to Jura track.

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 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.