Photograph depicts one of the few surviving hand operated gas pumps, halfway between Campbell River and Kelsey Bay, BCWithin three months this gas station will have electricity.
Photograph depicts an old gas station at 1603 West 3rd Ave. and Fir St. in Vancouver, BC
Photograph depicts an old CPR passenger car at Salmon Arm. It is now in work service as #41645.
Photograph depicts old CPR passenger car at Salmon Arm. The car is now in work service as #41645 and is used for storage.
Photograph depicts an old wooden CPR caboose, formerly #436919, at Kamloops. It was built in 1928 and has sat unmoved for 2 or 3 years. By 1981 it had disappeared.
Photograph depicts old CPR boxcar #42018 at Savona, on the west end of Kamloops Lake. It was built in July 1922 and is now in work service. It has steel ends and frame but wooden sides.
Photograph depicts the end of the old Coal Harbour extension of the C.P.R. line from Vancouver. It was disused for several years. The view is looking east with Woodward's Marina behind.
Photograph depicts an old church or school being demolished at 1701-1721 West 3rd Ave. (and Pine), in Vancouver, B.C.
Photograph depicts an old business car located on a spur on the west side of the Nelson CPR depot, where it seems to be a semi-fixture. The business car was #13 and had no dates.
Photograph depicts an old building at 119 Water St. in Vancouver, B.C.
Photograph depicts a once used booming boat made of log sections at a log dump on seashore about 5 miles north of Powell River, and opposite Harwood Island. Stern at left with prop guard.
Photograph taken at Okangan Lake, on Alexis Beach. O'Keefe Ranch is located at the head of the lake. Visible is an old house that was used as a hay barn.
Photograph depicts 2 locomotives and a 2 car train, both northbound.
Photograph depicts a locomotive lettered "Central Kansas Railway" (possibly a parent company).
Photograph depicts 2 freight cars of the Okanagan Valley Railway.
Photograph depicts 2 car freight near Oyama on the CN branch from Kelowna to Vernon. The lead locomotive was lettered "Hudson Bay Railway." Central Kansas Railway may be a parent.
File consists of research material regarding the Okanagan Valley Railway, which was created on 21 Nov. 1998. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "Okanagan Valley Railway, Short Line: 21 Nov. 1998 to Closure 1 Sept. 2009" compiled by Davies and an article in Okanagan Life magazine regarding the OVR and KPR.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Okanagan Valley Railway in British Columbia.
Photograph depicts the Okanagan CN Subdivision in Kamloops. Immediately east of Red Bridge.
Photograph depicts the Okanagan CN Subdivision in Kamloops. Immediately east of Red Bridge.
File consists of a document contains CN Rail Okanagan Sub-division track details for the Kamloops to Armstrong section.
File consists of photocopies of track plans for the CNR Okanagan branch between Kamloops and Armstrong.
File consists of depictions of the Canadian National Railway Okanagan branch. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, clippings from periodicals, and postcards.
File consists of research material relating to Canadian National Railway Okanagan branch locomotives and self-propelled cars. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, clippings from periodicals, and notes. Includes the following works: "M-3 Consolidations and the Significance of #2141 to Railroading in the Kamloops Region" by Bert Hyde; "Steam Locomotives Observed on Branch for 1926 through 1958"; and "The CNR Jitneys of Kamloops: 1920-1950" by Davies.
File consists of research material relating to the Canadian National Railway Okanagan branch infrastructure and operation. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, clippings from periodicals, and notes. Includes the following works: "CNR Kamloops-Armstrong Branch Line: Monte Lake" by Davies; "CP Okanagan Subdivision/CN Okanagan Subdivision/CN Lumby Subdivision"; "Okanagan Branch"; and "Trains to the Okanagan" by Jim Hope.
Photograph depicts the end details of the Ohio Central day coach.
Photograph depicts an Ohio Central Railway coach that was brought to Victoria in 2000 for use in the tourist Pacific Wilderness Railway that commenced business in June 2000. This particular car had never been refurbished, suggesting it had a problem from the start. When rail service ceased in July 2001 and cars were taken back to Ohio Central, this one was refused movement over public railways and remained in the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway yard in Victoria. Had 22 windows per side.
Photograph depicts the office of the Central Coal Co. Ltd., located on the south outskirts of Nanaimo, B.C. beside the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway. The building is one of the last pieces of evidence of coal distribution in Nanaimo.
Photograph depicts a vessel called the "Ocean traveller." It was backing off from a public pier in Ucluelet.
Photograph depicts a notice posted in Stanley Park at the head of Coal Harbour, Vancouver, B.C. Notice is for summer visitors only.
Photograph depicts the notice on the outer door of the Great Northern Railway depot in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts a notice found on old North Vancouver Ferry #3, moored as a tender at Western Fish Boat Works, Queensborough, Lulu Island. It was signed by the Corporation of North Vancouver.
File consists of issue no. 476 of Canadian Rail journal, which features Davies' article, "Not 'A Bridge Too Far' But One Far Enough: How the G.T.P. Crossed the Fraser at Prince George, British Columbia".
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Northwood Pump Mill Railway in Prince George, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd, Prince George. Located north of the city, near the BC Rail and CNR mainline tracks. It had its own railway of about 5 miles in length and two diesel switchers.
File consists of material regarding the Northwood Pulp & Timber Limited private industrial railway in Prince George. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.
Photograph depicts a Northwestern Pacific speeder.
File consists of a May 1952 special edition of the Northwest Digest that features the Pacific Great Eastern Railway.
Photograph depicts a northward view of the east side of the CN yards at the Kamloops Junction.
Photograph depicts a Northland steam tug at Vancouver. The tug, "Commodore Straits," one of the largest on the coast of B.C.
File consists of research material regarding the Northern Alberta Railway in British Columbia. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "Sixty Years to the Peace, 1916-1976" by George France; "End of an Era" by Marsh; "Northern Alberta Railways: Its History, as it Related to its most Westerly Branch that Terminates at Dawson Creek" compiled by Davies; "A Historical Tour of the N.A.R. Station"; and "Thunder in Peace River Country - The Last Great West: Canadian National's Former Northern Alberta Railways Lines" by Kozma and Bohi.
Photograph depicts northbound freight passing near the Salmon Arm depot.
Photograph depicts the North Vancouver Ferry #3 at Western Boat Works in Queensborough. It is used as a tender and workshop.
Photograph depicts North Vancouver Ferry #3 at Western Boat Works in Queensborough on Lulu Island.
Photograph depicts the North Vancouver Ferry #3 at Western Boat Works at the extreme east end of the Westminster Highway on Lulu Island. It appears to be watertight.
Photograph taken north of Oyama. A private speeder is found in the middle distance.
Photograph depicts "North Fraser Patrol #2" that was owned by North Fraser Harbour Commissioners. The vessel carried a sign the wheel house that read "Harbour Police."
Photograph depicts the north end of the False Creek trestle, looking east towards the C.P.R. yards in Vancouver.
Photograph taken on the north arm of the Fraser River. Looking southeast from Queensborough Bridge to the north end of Wood Street.
Subseries consists of material related to non-revenue cars, which include cabooses, handcars, maintenance-of-way cars, track testers, railway cranes, pile drivers, ditchers, ballast spreaders, flangers, service cars, and work trains. More information about non-revenue cars can be found in the Maintenance-of-Way series (2013.6.8).