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Photograph taken about half a mile north of the diamond crossing, looking southeast at the point where the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway closely follows the Comox Railway for about 300 yards. The Comox Railway used one every week for log trains.

Photograph depicts sidings for empty log cars about a quarter of a mile south of the diamond crossing. Image captured looking south, towards the Ladysmith yards. The running line is visible on the right side of the photograph and was used week by a daily log train, consisting of a deisel locomotive and 20 cars.

Photograph depicts deisel switcher #108.

Photograph depicts a mobile crane used to offload log trains into a pond.

Photograph depicts a snow plough in the Ladysmith yards.

Photograph depicts the commencement of the B.C. Electric Railway right-of-way at Commercial Dr. and near 22nd Ave. in Vancouver. It was built in 1891. The view is looking southeast towards New Westminster.

Photograph depicts 40 miles of trackage, of which 90% was located underground. It was owned by the Cominco Mine Railway of the private Sullivan Mine. The surface main line ran from the portal of the mine to a concentrator.

Photograph depicts the surface main line of the Cominco Mine Railway of the private Sullivan Mine. The line ran from the mine's portal to a concentrator. Visible locomotives dated from 1923 to 1952.

Photograph depicts stationed gauge trackage that was owned privately and laid near a concentrator that connected the CPR Kimberley branch. Visible are various spurs to wharehouses and sheds.

Photograph depicts the Cominco Mine Railway and the private Sullivan Mine. This section was near a concentrator as well as Chapman Camp. Davies suggested that it could a stationed gauge connector between the CPR Kimberley branch line and the concentrator that was used for incoming supplies and machinery.

Photograph depicts the Cominco Ltd. In Kimberley, near Cranbrook. There is a 3' gauge overhead electric railway serving the underground workings of Sullivan mine. The view shows the C.P.R. access in the valley and the old mine portal, still used for in-going materials and supplies, at the right center of the photo.

Photograph depicts the combined Canadian National Railway (CN) and C.P.R. wharf at Summerland on Okanagan Lake. The trackage extends behind the camera for about 150 yards. It is used mainly for summer fruit traffic.

Photograph depicts a collision between two freights (visible is the head of one and the tail of the other) at this switch. The signal was knocked down, but a replacement was erected. It was being tested while the photograph was being taken. Switch blade movements were remotely controlled.

Photograph depicts a collision that occurred at the west switch of the crossing in Savona. At some point, freight was derailed by huge pipes that rolled on the track in November 1991.

Photograph depicts the coking ovens at Union Bay on Vancouver Island. They belong to the Canadian Collieries Ltd. and the date last used is unknown.

Photograph depicts the Cobble Hill Station on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway on Vancouver Island. The view is looking south.

Photograph depicts the coasting vessel "Hecate Prince" owned by the Northland Navigation Co. Ltd. at their wharf on the southeast side of Vancouver Harbour.

Photograph depicts a Coastgaurd ship, "Narwhal," at the Department of Transport wharf in Seal Cove.

Photograph depicts the coast guard cutter "Racer" at Burrard Federal Dock in Kitsilano, Vancouver.

Photograph depicts the coast guard crash boat "Moorhen. It is an ex- RCAF rescue launch at Kitsilano Federal wharf, False Creek, Vancouver. Sister ship is the "Mallard."

Photograph depicts the coaling wharf at Union Bay on Vancouver Island. It is the property of the Canadian Colliery Resources Ltd. It was last used on August 15, 1960. Thereafter, all equipment and railways were dismantled but the water tank is still standing.

Photograph depicts coal wharves at the seaward end of the railway that connected with coal mines at Cumberland and Union Bay. Image captured looking northwest with coke ovens located on the right and covered by brush.

Photograph depicts coal wharves of a defunct railway that ran bewteen coallieries at Cumberland and Union Bay. The ground on the left appeared to be filled, recently dumped and bulldozed flat.

Photograph depicts coal miners near Buckley Bay. The afternoon shift (3 p.m.) is going down the Tsable drift mine, which is the only working coal pit on Vancouver Island in 1964 and has a total of 70 employees. It is run by the Comox Colliery Co. and has a daily production of 200-300 tons.

Photograph depicts the Tsable coal pit on Vancouver Island as the first coal of the afternoon shift being hauled up.

Photograph depicts a general view of Coal Harbour in Vancouver, taken from its head in Stanley Park, looking east. The Bayshore Inn is shown on the extreme left of the image.

Photograph depicts the upper end of Coal Harbour, on the south shore looking southwest and taken from the dock of the Vancouver Shipyards Ltd.

Photograph depicts a general view of Coal Harbour in Vancouver, looking southeast and taken from Royal Vancouver Yacht Club premises. Photo shows the Bayshore Hotel on the extreme left.

Photograph depicts the west end of Coal Harbour looking south to West Georgia St. and Chilco-Gilford block beyond. The old pilings exposed at low tide.

Photograph depicts a general view of the upper and south shore section of Coal Harbour in Vancouver, B.C.

Photograph depicts a general view of the last 300 yards of the upper neck of Coal Harbour in Vancouver, B.C. The view is looking west and taken from the south side.

Photograph depicts the west end of Coal Harbour looking south to West Georgia St. and Chilco-Gilford block beyond. The old pilings exposed at low tide.

Photograph depicts a general view of Coal Harbour in Vancouver, looking southeast and south with Marine Building (downtown) on extreme left and Stanley Park (unseen) at extreme right.

Photograph depicts Coal Harbour in Vancouver. The view is looking east.

Photograph depicts Coal Harbour in Vancouver. The view is looking east at the Bayshore Hotel and facing the Harbour Park Development site, newly filled with rock.

Photograph depicts Coal Harbour in Vancouver. The photo was taken nearly at the head of the harbour on the south side.

Photograph depicts a coach stock in the C.P.R. False Creek yards in Vancouver, B.C.

Photograph depicts details of a switch stand built by Canadian Ramaco Iron Works, Niagara Falls patented 1933. Found adjacent to the BC Forest Products Mill.

Photograph taken 200 yards west of the Youbou depot which can be seen through the trees at the top right. The spur lead to the BC Forest Products Mill.

Photograph taken at the end of the CNR track on Vancouver Island. The track was built in 1928 and it went to the end of Cowichan lake at Kissinger, but it was cut back in 1936 to Hawes on mile 90.6. The track was reduced by 8 miles to this point prior to 1972.

Photograph taken at the end of the branch line from Cowichan Bay to the BC Forest Products Mill in Youbou.The spur on the right was the second of 2 rail entrances to the mill and was the one that was most often used.

Photograph depicts a private spur leading to the BC Forest Products Mill.

Photograph depicts a switch found in the immediate foreground that lead to a totally overground "Y" on the right.

Photograph depicts a setak decked, flat car with old style springs carring a modern bunk car. It was part of a 5 car work train containing a gondola, tool, generator, above car, and a depressed flat car to carry a bulldozer.

Photograph depicts a tool generator car. Image captures part of a five car work train containing: a gondola, tool car, box car, bunk, as well as a depressed flat car to carry a bulldozer.

Photograph depicts work cars found in the background. Siding here could hold 54 cars. Davies notes that Wire Cache was named so because an overland telegraph company dumped a telegraph wire by the a stern wheeler.

Photograph taken at the "Winch Spur" depot, located 1 mile south of Lytton and Fraser Canyon. Image displays contractors erecting a high voltage transmission line from the Peace Dam to Vancouver. They had just reached this point and now were using a used single spur to offload trucks, electric cable, etc.

Photograph depicts the grade crossing at Topham Road in the community of Walnut Grove within Langley, BC

Photograph depicts double tracking that was in progress. A second road bed had been built in 1982. Track was built in 1984. It was about to be spliced into a 131 car length siding.

Photograph depicts double tracking that was in progress. Existing siding was about to be spliced into a new south bound track.