Photograph depicts locomotive #8821 on barge with a box car on a floating connector and caboose still partly on dry land. It is 7:00 p.m. and raining. The barge and content remained here overnight and was towed to Slocan city on the next day.
Photograph depicts CPR service auxiliary car #411642 at Revelstoke. There was no builders plate but it was painted in February 1970. Its weight let is 165, 700 lbs.
Photograph depicts a CPR service car in Revelstoke.
Photograph depicts a CPR service car in Revelstoke.
Photograph depicts CPR service car #403271, lettered "Kamloops Road Repair Car," at Kamloops. The earliest date lettering was "KS-8-49."
Photograph depicts "Princess Marguerite," one of the two CPR cruise ships left on the Pacific Coast.
Photograph depicts the "SS Princess Marguerite" arriving with sightseers from Seattle in the Inner Harbour of Victoria.
Photograph depicts the "Princess Marguerite."
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. Shuswap Depot east of Kamloops.
Photograph depicts the CPR siding at Coalmont, BC, located at mile 82.2 from Penticton on the Princeton Subdivision. To the left of the left-hand siding was an extensive coal loading yard of the Blakeburn Coal Mine, which was in use until it closed in 1940. The view is looking north.
Photograph depicts a CPR signal tower protecting the road crossing at Alexander and Columbia Streets on the downtown eastside, leading to the Kingcome Navigation Dock. The view is looking east.
Photograph depicts CPR snow equipment.
Photograph depictsa CPR snow plow, built in 1912.
Photograph depicts a snow plow in Cranbrook.
Photograph depicts a CPR snow plow, built in 1921 at Angus Shops in Montreal. Also visible is a spreader-ditcher, buil by O.F. Jordan Co. in 1959. Spotted at the Kamloops depot.
Photograph depicts a CPR snow plow in Revelstoke.
Photograph depicts a CPR snow plow in Revelstoke.
Photograph depicts a never used CPR snow plow, built in 1921 at Angus Shops in Montreal. Spotted at the Kamloops depot.
Photograph depicts a CPR snow plow, built in 1921 at Angus Shops in Montreal. Spotted at the Kamloops depot.
Photograph depicts a CPR snow plow, built in 1921, and a Jordan spreader, dated 1959. Both found opposite the Kamloops CPR depot.
Photograph taken opposite the CPR depot in downtown Kamloops. Snow plow built in 1921. Spreader dated 1959.
Photograph depicts a CPR snow plows in Revelstoke placed on track that was believed to be the branchline to Arrowhead.
Photograph depicts CPR snowplow #400885 at Cranbrook. The snowplow was built in Mar. 1917.
Photograph taken at the Agassiz Musuem which was found in an old railway station, which was relocated. Captured is the front view of a CPR speeder.
Photograph taken at the Agassiz Musuem. The rear view of a CPR speeder is visible.
Postcard depicts a CPR spiral tunnel that traversed through the Rockies near Yoho National Park.
Photograph depicts a CPR spur leading into a lumber reload facility in Campbell Creek, east of Kamloops.
Photograph depicts the site of a new CPR spur that was to be laid on a recently built rail ferry slip between Pier A3 and the old CPR Pier A.
Photograph depicts a CPR spur leading to a lane on the east of Richards St in the 1300 block. Much of the trackage here is dated 1911 and may be original. The photo was taken approximately 100 yards southwest of Richards St. and Pacific St. in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts a branch that runs from Slocan Lake to Nakusp. "L.H." track leads to barge slip on lake. "R.H." track is the "main line" to Nakusp. It is used once a week by freight that is restricted to 6 or 8 cars.
Photograph depicts a branch that runs from Rosebury barge slip near Slocan Lake to Nakusp. A rare sight as a section of a man's house is still occupied, but whether or not by a railroader or not. This remains unknown. Trackage is used once a week by very small freight.
Postcard depicts the CPR station at Albert Canyon, BC, circa 1900.
Photograph depicts the CPR Osoyoos station and the arrival of the daily (except Sunday) way freight train from Penticton. The depot is at about mile 36.1.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. station at Golden, B.C. The view is looking east.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. station at Invermere on the Golden-Cranbrook line, looking southwards. It is called the "Lake Windermere Station" built in 1916 of logs. The last mixed passenger train ran in 1962.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. station at Invermere in the Kootenays. There is a trolley off the track on the road and the way freight switching at the station. Golden is to the left, Cranbrook is to the right, and the station building is at the immediate left.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. station at Kaslo on Kootenay Lake and the beginning of the steep grade of the former Kaslo-New Denver Railway. The line on the left leads to the Kaslo depot and ferry slip, and that on the right goes another 200 yards to an oil depot. All trains did and do a reverse at the foot of grade at the left behind the photo.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. station at North Bend, B.C., from a view looking north.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. station in Abbotsford, looking south.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. station at Merritt, halfway between Spences Bridge and Brockmere Junction. The line is in active use.
Postcard depicts the Rogers Pass CPR station. A snowslide wiped out the station on January 9, 1899.
File consists of research material regarding Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) stations in British Columbia, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on various CPR stations, sources about Kettle Valley Railway stations, a listing of "Railway Stations in B.C. by Railway Company: CPR" by Davies, and a map showing the locations of CPR stations. Also includes the following articles: "Brookmere: A C.P.R. Divisional Point, Part I" by Hind; "Fraser Mills Station Reaches Century Mark"; "Architectural Features of CPR Railway Stations" by Baird; "The Agassiz Station" by McCombs; "CPR Station--Vancouver" by Hockin; and "CPR Standard Stations" by Johnston.
Photograph depicts a C.P.R. steam driven tracked crane at Revelstoke, BCIt was only marked "C.P. Service E.I."
File consists of research material regarding Canadian Pacific Railway steam locomotives, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following articles: "My Favorite CPR Steam Locomotive [No. 3647]" by Garner; "Some Thoughts on Canadian Pacific's D9c Class in British Columbia" by Ottewell; "Eight-Coupled Steam to the Kootenays" by Westren; "Development of the Hudson Class Locomotive 2860: Royalty on the Howe Sound Route Celebrating a Half Century of Good Living, 1940-1990" by McGarry; "The CPR D10 Class Locomotive on a Stamp: Canada's Most Numerous Locomotive Type" by Bonin; "Canada's Only Articulateds" by Lavallee; "The First Consolidation Built in Canada" by Angus; "Canadian Pacific Class D-4G 4-6-0" by Bolan; and "History of the 3101" by IPSCO. Also includes many depictions of various CPR steam locomotive types.
Photograph depicts the crumbling CPR stock yard at Lytton in the Fraser Valley.
Photograph depicts a CPR storehouse at Mission City. It was marked as "Petroleum Store" but in fact was holding speeders and miscellaneous track equipment. It was sited on the north side of the track at the extreme east end of the depot platform.
Photograph depicts a southbound C.P.R. streamliner at the Mud Bay crossing on Vancouver Island. This part of track belongs to the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, and the crossing is being re-sited.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. summit of the southern transcontinental C.P. line at Crowsnest Pass on the Alberta-B.C. border. The roundhouse is disused. Four men are working on the turntable; it is unclear whether they are rebuilding its eastern face or demolishing it by breaking down one wall to get at the table. The site is 4,453 ft. above sea level and the view is looking south.
Photograph depicts a CPR bridge over Pitt River.
Phoyo depicts a CPR swing bridge in Sicamous.