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2013.6.36.1.010.65 · Item · [May 1965]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts engines at the Pacific Coast Bulk Terminals in North Vancouver. They are owned by the Vancouver Wharves Co. Ltd. The engines are number 21 and 22 and are 0-6-0 tank engines built by Hudswell Clarke & Co., in Leeds in 1949. They were purchased from Samuel Williams from Dagenham, Essex, U.K. They reached Vancouver May 28, 1960 and were put into service in about November 1960.

2013.6.36.1.010.20 · Item · Aug. 1964
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a 2 truck 50 ton Shay locomotive owned by Elk Falls Ltd. It was built about 1925 and brought to Vancouver Iron and Engineering Works from somewhere on Vancouver Island and was refitted from June 25 to August 16, 1960. It received new tubes, odd repairs, cladding, painting, and a given number. It came to Elk Falls in Campbell River in August or September 1960.

2013.6.36.1.028.11 · Item · 17 Sept. 1970
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the CPR line at Eholt, located at mile 108.7 from Nelson on the Boundary Subdivision. It was a formerly bustling junction with the left-hand spur leading to Phoenix. Nor it only has 3 way freight trains a week from Nelson to Midway. The view is looking west.

2013.6.36.1.118.01 · Item · [3 July 1994]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the eastern portal of CPR Mount Macdonald Tunnel. The door was lifted vertically upwards. The ventilation system pushed air into the tunnel from a halfway vertical shaft, purging the bore of exhaust gases that came from the locomotives.

2013.6.36.1.056.01 · Item · [June 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a British locomotive, the "Dunrobin," as well as a saloon coach found at a BCER locomotive shed. It was emerging for a second trial run to Steveston. It just underwent a complete overhaul in 1966 after being being purchased by the provincial government of British Columbia.

2013.6.36.1.056.06 · Item · [June 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a British locomitive, the "Dunrobin," and saloon coach having just emerged from a BCER locomotive shed in New Westminster. Mr. Swanson, a B.C. chief mechanical engineer, is visibled leaning out of the coach's window.

2013.6.36.1.056.14 · Item · [June 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a British locomotive, the "Dunrobin," as well as a saloon coach found at a BCER locomotive shed. It was emerging for a second trial run to Steveston. It just underwent a complete overhaul in 1966 after being being purchased by the provincial government of British Columbia.