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Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway on Vancouver Island. Could be the Crofton spur, but is more likely the Lake Cowichan branch. On mile 47.7m. Victoria Sub Division for another 2.1 miles. It has 15 miles per hour speed limit.

Photo is taken at Chemainus station on mile 51.2. A southbound passenger train with 2 Budd cars is visible. Time is 16:01. About 2-4 passengers got on or alighted.

Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yards in Victoria. Watercar #41500 (dated August 1912) with two upside down tenders are visible. They are both being filled with water. There is a man bending at a stop lock to the left of the pivoted water arm.

Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yards in Victoria. View is looking toward the east. Shows a turntable and an end stalll of a 10 stall round house. Locomotive #6701 is visible. Elsewhere, #6702 and #8835 are inside a stall.

Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yards in Victoria. Pulling box car #6702 is being switched. CPR #18705 is displayed on State Street. Photo is looking east. The pulling box car is going back to the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard across a bridge that goes over the inner harbour.

Photograph taken at Chemainus on mile 51.2. The station is just behind the camera. A southbound train has just stopped at the station and is just now picking up speed and is boarding, heading south to Victoria. Time is 4:00 p.m. It will reach Victoria at 5:40 p.m. The train is well patronized.

Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yards in Victoria. Caboose CPR #437275 ("BH" June 1946) and tank fire car #415833 are both displayed.

Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yards in Victoria. #6702 pulling box car is being switched. A car down State Street is visible. Photograph taken on the east side of the upper inner harbour.

Photograph taken at Chemainus. The station is just behind the camera. The south bound train is visible and it is is just picking up speed, travelling back to Victoria. Time is 4:00 p.m. The train is well patronized.

Photograph taken just north of Shawnigan station. Image captured looking south at the rear of the daily passenger train returning to Victoria. This make the time at around 4:45 p.m. and the mileage is about 28.0. The rails are Algoma and weigh 80 Ibs. They are dated 1914 and 1920.

Photograph depicts a box car loaded with crossback arms of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway. The location could be Westholme as shown in another photo.

Photograph depicts a Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway Railway Co. privately owned caboose at the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard in Victoria.

Photograph depicts a CRHA, Vancouver Island Division, lettered caboose at the EN yards in Victoria.

Photograph taken at the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway (CPR) yard in Port Alberni that was now worked by Rail America. The visible box cars were to hold products from the adjacent Pacifica Papers Inc. paper mill.

Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway depot in Ladysmith. Track visible. Looking southward.

Photograph taken at the Bowser grade crosssing near the Island Highway on mile 115. The railroad brush cutter worked north from Nanaimo. It was doing one sweep fairly close to the track and was especially needed in area of rapid growth.

Photograph taken at the Island Highway crossing in Bowser on mile 115. A railroad brush cutter was working north of Nanaimo.

Photograph taken in Bowser, BC on mile 115. The Island Highway grade crossing is located behind the camera. The image was captured looking northward. The brush cutter at work was making a low pass sweep. Davies notes that this was much needed just further up the line.

Photograph taken looking upgrade, on the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway line from Port Alberni to Bainbridge loop, with the main line straight ahead. Newly built spur to a steam sawmill on right.

Photograph depicts a log train from Cowichan Lake. The branchline is also captured.

Photograph taken on the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway main line out of Port Alberni with run-around siding over the right out of sight. Yard is found towards the rear. On the left, there was private trackage of the Nordeske paper mill that was in daily use until December 31, 2001 when Rail America stopped runnning freights because the mill went to road transport.

Photograph depicts what was believed to be a former repair coach/car shop. It held a Budd car in storage. Vegetation in the foreground shows passage of a vehicle in the last 2-3 months.

Photograph depicts a snow plow at the E & N yards in Nanaimo.

Photograph depicts what was believed to be a lumber loading spur.

Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway station in Ladysmith.

Photograph depicts Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway trackage in Port Alberni only used by the Alberni Pacific tourist railway. Visible is an interesting throw-type switch.

Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yards near Lime Bay, Victoria. The photograph is looking towards the west.

Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yards near Esquimalt and Alstan Streets, Victoria. The car is lettered "CPR Victoria Auxiliary."

Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway which carried over Colwood road and the former Canadian National Railway Vancouver Island line on the outskirts of western Victoria.

Photograph depicts decrepit reach cars that were used for loading and unloading cars from rail ferries. They prevented the locomotive from running onto the ramp.

Photograph depicts a general view of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yards in Nanaimo.

Photograph depicts a snow plow in the Nanaimo Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yards.

Photograph depicts travelling rip-rap in the Nanaimo Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yards.

Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway Alberni branch line, one mile east of the former Cameron Lake station. At this point, Highway 4 and rails "touch" each other for about 100 yards, but it was hardly noticable in those days because of bush growth.

Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway branch line in Parksville. Highway crossing and station were behind the camera.

Photograph taken somewhere north of the end of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway line on Vancouver Island. It could be between Qualicum Beach and Dunsmuir. A Budd car passenger train is captured relatively found in the background.

Photograph taken where the Island Highway in Bowser crosses the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway at approximately mile 115. A brush cutter had just passed over the grade crossing and was just behind the camera.

Photograph taken in Bowser, BC. A tank car belonging to Procor Ltd., built in 1923, standing on a passing loop is visible. The tank was used by a local fuel oil supplier.

Photograph taken on mile 105. Image captured looking towards the north. A daily passenger train of 2 Budd cars is passing.

Photograph depicts the Buckley Bay flag stop on mile 126. Image displays a daily pass train with 2 Budd cars picking up speed. It was travelling south.

Photograph depicts a 2 car Budd train (#6133 and #61340) approaching the Buckley Bay flag stop on mile 126. The train is travelling to the north while the camera is aimed towards the south.

Photograph depicts the Buckley Bay halt or flag stop on approximately mile 126. VIA Rail daily train was departing south. This flag stop was located between Dunsmuir and Victoria.

Photograph depicts the Buckley Bay flag stop on mile 126. Jan and Susan Davies are seen on the extreme left and right. This location allows passengers access to the ferry to Denman and Hornby Islands.

Photograph taken at the Port Alberni depot on mile 38.8. Trackage continued as a spur for another three-quarters of a mile to a sawmill and wharf.

Photograph depicts the passenger depot that is to the north. Siding (with 22 cars) lies south and at a short distance. Image captured is looking towards the south at the beginning of the siding. Photograph taken at mile 50.0.

Photo is taken on mile 51.2 in Chemainus. The image captures a southbound Budd car passenger train pulling out of the station for Victoria. Looking northwards.

Photograph depicts Cobble Hill station on mile 31.5. The arrival of a daily passenger train is at 9:15 a.m. Siding has the capacity of 26 cars and was being used as 'depressed economy' storage.

Photograph depicts the Cobble Hill station on mile 31.2. Image captured looking north west. Siding has the capacity for 26 cars and was being used for storage. The northbound daily pass train is expected at 9:15 a.m. and the southbound is expected at 16:41 p.m.

Photograph taken at the terminus in Courtenay. Image displays passengers disembarking. Camera aimed towards the north. VIA Rail cars #6133 and #6134, behind, are both visible.

Photograph depicts Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway trackage in Courtenay. In another 200 yards, it was the northerly point the railway ever reached. Both lines were not in use north of the Courtenay station. The line on the left was the main one, while the one on the right was an industrial spur or siding.