Postcard depicts "The Four Tracks."
File consists of a UBC thesis by Ronald H. Meyer entitled "The Evolution of Railways in the Kootenays".
Tourist map of Prince George depicts city area, including railway trackage.
Postcard depicts "Canadian Pacific's eastbound, "The Canadian," crosing the Kicking Horse River between Golden and Field B.C. in October 1976. Some of the... trains power through some of North America's most spectacular scenery. The morning has brought the season's first snowfall."
Photograph depicts the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Ladysmith, B.C. on Vancouver Island. Building is estimated to be built between 1901-1905.
Postcard depicts "Canadian Pacific's all Stainless Stel Scenic Dome Streamliner-"The Canadian"-in the Canadian Rockies."
Postcard depicts "VIA Rail Canada Nos. 6456 and 6454 hauling Train No. 1, "The Canadian" between Spences Bridge and Drynoch, British Columbia, on Canadian Pacific's Thompson Subdivision, having been delayed by the need to detour, from its usual route, on Canadian National's Ashcroft Subdivision, seen here across the Thompson River. May 14, 1993."
Map depicts location of treasure hidden between Clearwater and Clemina, BC.
File consists of various editions of David Davies' BC Rail Guide No. 10 entitled "The Britannia Copper Mine Railway" from 1977 and 1991.
Photograph depicts the Pacific Terminus of the Trans Canada Highway in Tofino, B.C. on Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts ten ballast cars of the B.C. Electric Railway on newly laid industrial spur on the northeast side of the Langley depot.
Photograph depicts a telephone pole near Reiswig, on the main road between Vernon and Arrow Lakes.
Photograph depicts telephone fittings on Vancouver Island.
Photograph depicts telephone fittings on Vancouver Island.
File consists of research material regarding railway telegraph lines, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes diagrams showing locations of train phone wires; examples of railway pole lines; and information on telephone shanties and communications insulators.
Photograph depicts a telegraph line on the Williams Lake to Bella Coola road.
Photograph depicts an old tannery that appeared to be being slowly renovated after years of disuse.
Photograph depicts a tank 'Scale Test Car' at the Kamloops CPR yard.
Photograph depicts a tank that was found outside of the headquarters of the British Columbia Armoured Regiment in Vancouver.
File consists of research material regarding tank cars. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.
Photograph depicts a new tank car for sodium chlorate CN/CP interchange.
Photograph depicts an old tank car owned by a logging railway on Vancouver Island, parked at the end of a spur behind a locomotive shed of the Alberni Pacific Railway.
Photograph depicts a switching locomotive and stand-in locomotive.
File consists of research material regarding train switching, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information on remote-control switching, car placards, and interchange service.
Photograph depicts switcher #8106 and caboose #434612 that just arrived with a loaded train from a pulp mill. To the left lay the main track to Nelson.
Photograph depicts switcher #8106 that served the 3 mile branch to a pulp mill. The switcher pulled with heavy string of loaded cars from the mill. The trip was a caboose run. Locomotive built in 1958 as part of a batch of 31. 17 of them remained in 1997.
Photograph depicts the swing span of the road and rail bridge at Mission City, looking upstream from the south bank.
Photograph depicts the CPR swing bridge crossing the Harrison River at Harrison Mills. It is a plate girder bridge carrying a double track. The bridge tender occupied a shanty at the east end of the bridge at mile 68.3 from North Bend. The timetable states that trains may proceed at restricted speed after stopping, if the tender fails to appear after 4 whistle signals and the hone signals show stop.
Photograph depicts a swimming pool at Second Beach in Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C. The snow in the foreground is 16 inches deep and there is a gathering snowstorm in the background coming in from the west.
Photograph depicts the only surviving building in the ghost town of Gerard. Its survival was due to the ownership and periodic use of the B.C. Government Fisheries Department.
Photograph depicts one of the surviving houses on Beach Ave, Vancouver, between Gilford and Chilco.
File consists of documents relating to railway construction surveying and tendering, which predominantly consist of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following items, among others: an article from Trains magazine by R.M. Bailey entitled "On The Line" regarding CNR in BC; an article from Trains magazine by Fitsimons and Berns entitled "The Surveyor's Art"; and "Details about Survey Work, Cost Estimates, and Contract for Victoria & Sidney Railway" excerpted from book by Muralt.
Series consists of material regarding railway survey and construction in British Columbia. Includes information about construction statistics, surveying and tendering, construction methods, contractors, and equipment. Also includes details about the construction of specific railways, including the Canadian Northern Railway, the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, the Kettle Valley Railway, the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, the Crow’s Nest Pass Railway, and others.
Photograph depicts the Superior Propane Ltd. tank yard behind Wilkinson Steel Ltd.
Photograph depicts a sunken whaler with a harpoon gun. A destroyer or, possibly, a corvette was being broken up in the middle background.
Photograph depicts the close up of harpoon guns of a sunken whaler in the Upper Harbour of Victoria.
Photograph depicts block ships sunk to protect booming grounds at Powell River. The ships were former wartime naval vessels.
Photograph depicts the Sun Building at the intersection of Beatty and West Pender St. in Vancouver, B.C. The photo was taken after the Pacific Press Ltd. Vacated the building on December 26, 1965, and the "Sun" neon sign on the tower was removed. The view is looking west from West Pender St.
Postcard depicts "Summit City" in Rogers Pass, built in 1886 and existed only for the consctruction of the CPR.
Map depicts the cities of Summerland, Penticton, and Naramata. Annotated by Davies to emphasize the rail lines in the area.
Map depicts the cities of Summerland, Penticton, and Naramata. Annotated by Davies to emphasize the rail lines in the area.
Photograph depicts a train spotted at the Summerland depot.
Photograph depicts what is believed to be the only remaining "summer cottage" on Beach Ave. in English Bay.
Photograph depicts the Sumas depot of the Northern Pacific Railway in the U.S. The Canadian border is at the grade crossing in the middle distance.
File consists of material regarding the industrial railway of the lead-zinc mine known variously as the Sullivan Mine/Cominco Mine/Kimberley Mine in Kimberley, British Columbia. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.
Series consists of plans, articles, and clippings regarding structures built by railways (with the exception of bridges and stations) in British Columbia. Includes information about engine houses, roundhouses, turntables, water delivery structures, fuelling facilities, freight houses, ice storage shed, tunnels, and other railway structures.
Photograph depicts former street car tracks in New Westminster.
Photograph depicts a street car body that formerly belonged to Vancouver, but was found by Davies in Penticton.
Photograph depicts stoves taken from railway equipment at the C.N. Port Mann repair shops. Left and middle stove are of the same design.
Photograph depicts stores in Kaslo on Kootenay Lake, 40 miles northeast of Nelson. This town still has 15 miles of dirt road leading to it.