Photograph depicts the Bridge River Hydro Power Station on the edge of Seton Lake. A BC Hydro First Aid trolley with a heater connection was plugged in. The train was the fastest method to get an injured person to Lillooet from Shalalth as it was about 16 miles by rail in comparison to 50 miles by uneven dirt road. Ordinary PGE trollies were used by injured civilians between D'Arcy and Lillooet as it was the quickest method of evacuation.
Photograph depicts an the eastern portal of a Pacific Great Eastern tunnel on the west side of the Bridge River Hydro project in Shalalth. Penstocks of the hydro plants are clearly visible on the hill side.
Photograph depicts the depot in Shalalth that faces Seton Lake.
Photograph depicts a wrecked steel box car used by a farmer as some kind of shed with some of the side panels removed.
Photograph taken from the depot in Squamish that runs a half a mile spur down to a dumping site beside the Squamish River. Image displays the log dump looking towards the east with the depot in the background, towards the right.
Photograph depicts loading logs on the Pacific Great Eastern, north of Squamish.
Photograph depicts a Pacific Great Eastern bridge over the Capilano River in northwest Vancouver. Also visible is a switching locomotive.
Photograph depicts a caboose and flanger car #1823.
Photograph depicts the Pacific Great Eastern line through Williams Lake.
Photograph depicts a caboose and flanger car #6016
Photograph depicts horses beside track about 300 yards south of the passenger depot in Williams Lake.
Photo depicts the interchange of passengers of a northbound dayliner around the wreckage of a derailment. Two budd car units from Vancouver can been seen in the background. Passengers were being transferred to a "scratch" train assembled at Lillooet and consisting of a budd car, caboose and a diesal switcher.
Photo depicts the transfer of a Vancouveer to Lillooet dayliner to the unit made up at Lillooet wich consisted of a budd car, caboose and switcher. The scene of the Seton Portage derailment was found 100 yards behind the photo.
Photo depicts the largest crane on the Pacific Great Eastern and is stationed in Prince George.
Photo depicts a crane #6501 in position to lift locomotive #703. It was about to re-rail one end of the locomotive. Image captured looking towards the south with the shoo-fly in the immediate foreground and Setan Lake in the background.
Photo depicts a distant view of the Seton Portage wreck,. Squamish Shops crane was standing on the minor line of the loop. The crane was self-propelled and after its launch it had broken its drive axle. This was replaced by a standard axle and, therefore, was propelled by a switcher.
Photo depicts a close up view of the rear of the locomotive #703. It was stopped at the head of a freight onn the main line portion of the loop awaiting a southbound loaded freight. Its tracks were derailed, fuel tranks ruptures and a sliver of steel from the box car was forced into its forward tracks. The left side of the cab was also sheared.
Photo depicts the general view of a derailment, looking eastward. The derailed locomotive #703 was found beside a squashed box car. By this time, a PGE bulldozer had prepared a road bed for the wreck.
Photo depicts a shoo-fly that had been built around the Seton Portage wreck. locomotive #703 had stood at this spot just before the switch when the cars of the southbound freight piled into it.
Photo depicts a Pacific Great Eastern working train approaching Seton Portage. It had been diverted from the derailment to fill in a burnt out wooden culvert on the edge of Anderson Lake.
Photo depicts the removal of about 70 bales from a box car.
Photo depicts a derailment in Seton Portage at the Pacific Great Eastern broken switch on mile 139.8.
Photo depicts the general view of the clean up of the derailment in Seton Portage. The track in which a speeder stands a gondola car with rolls were the two tracks of the loop. They were both severed and respliced in making the "second edition" of the shoo-fly.
Series consists of graphic material depicting railways in British Columbia. Includes prints, negatives, and postcards.
Photograph depicts a piece of abandoned track leading to the peat plant at #8 road on Lulu Island on the Westminster Highway. The track runs parallel to the Westminster Highway, which is at the left beyond the photo. The rail is undated and marked, "Rlymney Steel" (South Wales). The photo is looking west and the Canadian National Railway (CN) spur lies a quarter mile behind the camera.
Map depicts the Shuswap Lakes, Rogers Pass, Kamloops, Yellowhead Pass, Thompson Valley, and the Nicola Valley. Also includes the first clues to a treasure hunt.
Photograph depicts Pier #2 in Vancouver at the north end of Columbia St. It shows disconnected trackage on the east side of the pier that was formerly serviced by the CPR. It has not been in use for some years. The switch fittings were made by the Nelson Iron Works in Seattle.
Photograph depicts Pier B in Burrard Harbour, Vancouver. The photo shows the inside the main roadway and the CPR trackage.
Photograph depicts a pipe yard of West Coast Gas Transmission. Two large pipes had gotten away and rolled onto the railway.
Plan depicts the CNR rail yard in Kamloops. The plan was originally drafted on March 6, 1928 and updated to July 1937.
Plan depicts the Canadian Pacific Railway yards in Kamloops and the proposed connection between CPR and CNR. Includes a CPR track profile, profiles of street crossing, and enlargements.
Plan depicts the proposed CNR rail yard layout in Kelowna. A later plan, dated May 30th 1925, shows drastically reduced trackage and no barge slip.
Plan depicts a proposed location for a CNR station and crossing in Kelowna.
Plan depicts the proposed location and layout for the Canadian Northern Pacific terminal at Kamloops on the Kamloops-Lumby branch.
Map depicts the growth of Vancouver's street car system as from the laying of the first tracks in 1889 to the last section laid (Clark Dr., Hastings to Venables).
Photograph depicts a plaque attached to the east side girder of bascule section of the Second Narrows railway bridge in Vancouver, BC
Photograph depicts a pole yard of Gorman Bros Ltd. Loading methods and quality were checked by CN inspectors in Kamloops, then on the main trans-continental line. These particular lines were destined for Ontario.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of rail activities in Port Alberni, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts a renovated Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway station in Port Alberni. It was now used by Alberni Pacific tourist railway.
Postcard possibly taken in Glacier, BC
Subseries consists of printed and photograph postcards depicting railways, buildings, ships, and other transportation in British Columbia.
Photograph depicts Pounder Emulsions Ltd. which received bitumens and distributed them to blacktop plants from April till October.
Photograph depicts the "Powell River Queen" of the B.C. Ferries. It was just arriving at the slip in Earl's Cove after it had just made an 8 mile trip from Saltery Bay. It had been built in Victoria in 1965. Capacity held 50 cars and 250 passengers.
Photograph depicts preserved KVR trackage near Faulder, west of Summerland.
Photograph depicts preserved KVR trackage near Faulder, west of Summerland.
Photograph depicts a primitive tram with external flonges and a swivel support for a tub that was found amongst the debris near the blacksmiths shop in Barkerville.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Railway Museum in Prince George, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts a crane at the Prince George Railway Museum.
Photograph depicts a speeder car at the Prince George Railway Museum.
Photograph depicts tanks at the Prince George Railway Museum.