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2013.6.36.1.051.01 · Item · [16 June 1972]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a Comox Logging and Railway Company grade about a mile north of the diamond crossing. Track was used once daily for a train of about 20 cars. The grade was first built as a private railway between the Extension Mine and Ladysmith circa 1900-1925, then the section between Ladysmith and Nanaimo River was converted to a logging railway in about 1935-1940 and was extended up Nanaimo River Creek.

2013.6.36.1.051.21 · Item · [16 June 1972]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the last logs being removed from a 20 car log train which had just arrived from Nanaimo Lakes. Each car held 2 bundles, each of about 20 logs. These in turn were assembled into a large boom and then were towed to the mainland. Cars were emptied by a mechanical prodder and mounted on an old shay frame.

2013.6.36.1.051.10 · Item · [16 June 1972]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

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.

2013.6.36.1.051.20 · Item · [16 June 1972]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

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.

Computer Room?
2012.13.1.93.52 · Item · 1978
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts what appears to be a computer room at an uncertain location, possibly in Fort St. John, B.C.

Connaught Tunnel
2013.6.36.1.128.02 · Item · [3 July 1994]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the Connaught Tunnel. Traffic was normally eastbound through it, while westbound traffic went through the new Mt. Macdonald Tunnel.

Connaught Tunnel
2013.6.36.1.128.03 · Item · [3 July 1994]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the western portal of the 1916 Connaught Tunnel. The tunnel used to be double tracked, but was singled in the 1960s in orde to take piggy-back/container traffic. Curiously, the switch to the single was inside the tunnel.

2009.5.2.295 · Item · July 1942
Part of Taylor-Baxter Family Photograph Collection

Man in military uniform, woman, and young boy stand on grass in front of flowering trees. Woman holds infant, bassinet stands on far right. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "The Connell family, Halifax, July 1942. Joan - age 3 months."