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File consists of material regarding freight transport for the fishing industry. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about fish traffic from CNR in Prince Rupert, canneries and the role of railways in product distribution, fish canneries near Prince Rupert, the Gulf of George Cannery, and canneries in Steveston.

File consists of material regarding container ports, intermodal centres, and other shipping ports. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about Roberts Bank Port, the Port of Prince Rupert, piggyback service, Vancouver's Deltaport, planning a container port, containerized transport, Ogden Point Docks in Victoria, Prince Rupert's Ridley Island Port, and the Port of Vancouver.

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the coke fuel industry. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about coke ovens at Union Bay, Fernie, and Michel.

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the coal mining industry. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "Once Accursed the Crowsnest Blooms" by G. Patrick Green; "Coal Mines of Vancouver Island" compiled by Davies; "How Strong is Coal?" by Andy Cummings; "Coal Mines in the East Kootenays of B.C." compiled by Davies; "Coal From the Crowsnest: How Canadian Pacific moves British Columbia Bituminous" by John Garden; "Cumberland: Coal-dust Memories Stir a Sleepy Village" by McGill and Strong; "Quintette Mine: The Heart of North East Coal"; and "Where's That Coal Train Going?" by Tom Murray.

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the cement, brick, glass, gypsum, and limestone industries. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about Lafarge Cement, limestone quarrying in British Columbia, the cement industry at Kamloops, Clayburn Brickworks near Abbotsford, the limestone quarry and kiln at Pavilion, gravel processing, the Tilbury Cement Company, the gypsum mine in Falkland, and railway ballast quarries.

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the automobile industry. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "Outgoing Automobile Rail Traffic in BC" by Davies and "Railroads and the Automobile Age" by Jim Hediger.

Series consists of research material regarding rail freight in British Columbia and in general. Includes information about freight statistics, freight customers in BC, freight revenue, less-than-carload service, types of freight loads, freight loading and discharging devices, and intermodal freight. Also includes information on the rail transport of coal, coke fuel, ore, lumber, pulp and paper, potash, sulfur, cement, gypsum, grain, fish, chemicals, petroleum, automobiles, and livestock.

Postcard depicts Fraser River in the Canadian Rockies.

Postcard depicts Fraser Canyon near North Bend, BC

Postcard depicts Fraser River Canyon, showing Cariboo Highway, CPR and CNR Railways, British Columbia, Canada.

Postcard depicts Fraser River Canyon, near North Bend, BC

Postcard depicts Fraser River Canyon, BC

Postcard depicts Fraser Canyon in the Rocky Mountains of western Canada.

Postcard depicts Fraser Canyon in the Canadian Rockies.

Postcard depicts Fraser Canyon, BC"The Saddle Rock view shows some of the rugged grandeur on the Canyon route between Hope and Lytton. It's muddy waters, at this time, gathered fourteen large and many small tributaries as it flows to the great Pacific."

Postcard depicts Fraser Canyon. "One can catch thrilling sights through the Canyon such as this. Just a few miles south of Lyton, this view offers one some of the Fraser's best scenery."

Postcard depicts the Four Tunnels over Fraser River, BC

Postcard depicts the Four Tunnels in Fraser River Canyon, BC

Photograph depicts a coal tub car that was on display in Fort Steele.

Photograph depicts locomotive #115, the "Robert E. Swanson," that was built by Lime Locomotive Works in 1934. It was brought to Forst Steele in 1972.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of former KVR trackage in the Christina Lake area of British Columbia.