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Saddle tank, Fernie
2013.6.36.1.053.40 · Item · 20 Aug. 1983
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a saddle tank built by Porter Company, Pittsburgh, USA in 1901. It was used for charging coke ovens and was acquired from the Crows Nest Pass Coal Company in 1970.

2000.1.1.3.18.006 · Item · [ca. 1960?]
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photograph depicts the large bearing cups of one of the Ruston Hornsby diesel engines that turned the generators in the power house on the Cassiar plant. Engine believed to be under repair. Saw horse, machinery, and electric panels in background.

Rustad Bros. Sawmill
2001.26.1.9269 · Item
Part of Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd. fonds

An aerial view of Rustad Bros. Sawmill with the beehive burner, mill complex and log yard in the background and the lumber yard in the foreground. Photographer of this oversize photograph believed to be Bill Theessen.

2013.6.36.1.005.37 · Item · Oct. 1965
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a Rumely oil tractor #1237 , type M, RPM 640. At sea level develops 35 Brake H.P. and 20 drawbar H.P. It was made by Advance Rumely Co. Inc. at Battle Creek, Michigan. The tractor is located at High River, Alberta, 40 miles south of Calgary.

Ruins of Port Nelson, BC
2009.10.2.027 · Item · [between 1923 and 1925]
Part of Fred Jeffery Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts an abandoned cannery building and dock. The shoreline adjacent to the cannery is lush with vegetation. There are treed mountainsides across the water in the distance. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Ruins of Port Nelson".

Ruined Cars
2012.13.1.22.16 · Item · 1970
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts several old, ruined cars and an unknown individual in Island Cache.

Rudi's Bridge
2012.13.1.50.059 · Item · 1978
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts a small foot bridge at an unknown location. The slide is simply labelled "Rudi's Bridge."

2009.5.1.81 · Item · [ca. 1910]
Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts team of horses pulling heavily loaded wagon with the sign: "RUDDY & MACKAY. BAGGAGE. STAGE & TRANSFER." One man stands holding head of horse and smoking a pipe. A second man sits in wagon holding reigns, (believed to be same man featured in items 2009.5.1.79 & 2009.5.1.80). Large "Grand Trunk Pacific" building can be seen in background, as well as a smaller building with the sign "HAZELTON" hanging from its eaves.