Photo was taken approximately five minutes north of Duncan, Vancouver Island. Steel passenger car #411292 is visible and has been converted to a bunk and mess car as part of a work train on a stations spur. There are 6 wheel trucks. There is no date indicated for the building.
Photo was taken approximately five minutes north of Duncan, Vancouver Island. A track crane is visible.
Photo was taken approximately five minutes north of Duncan, Vancouver Island. A work train on the siding, including a steel passenger car #411292 are visible.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. wharf at Kaslo on Kootenay Lake. The wharf is used to load/unload cars from vehicles or lake scows. The ferry slip itself is beyond the tank cars, at the center middle distance of the photo.
Photograph depicts a CPR wharf building at Okanagan Landing, Okanagan Lake. It was presumably used as a covered slipway and as a store. It was was now boarded up and the rail track between Vernon and Okanagan Landing was removed in 1940.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. wharf-scow approach ramp at Kelowna, looking east. Okanagan Lake is behind the camera.
Photograph depicts mile 18.5 on Slocan Subdivision looking North. Terminal at Slocan is at mile 31.3. Rails weighed 85 Ibs and were dated 1902 and 1910-1912.
Photograph depicts a CPR work car at Princeton. It is #42238 and originally marked "Auto Mobile." It was built in June 1923. The length is 40'6", width 8'6", and height 10'. The weight LT is 46, 200.
Photograph depicts a CPR work train at Princeton. It shows passenger car #411375, used as cook, dinner, and sleeper. It was built in May 1929. The LT weight is 178, 000.
Photograph depicts a CPR wreck crane stationed in Kamloops. It had just come from a crash site about 7 miles south from a hauling hopper car on a makeshift set up. Nearest set of tracks belonged to the car and were properly placed. Rear set of bogies were taken from the wreck site and the end of the wrecked car was placed on them.
Photograph depicts CPR wreck crane #414475 and reach car # 402093. The crane has a 200 ton capacity and was manufactured in 1929 by the Industrial Brownhoist Corp. in Cleveland, Ohio. It's a type 2, steam crane #5162. Freestanding it is 30ft. The radius equals a 17 ton lift and outrigged at 17ft , 200 ton lift. Nelson lies 138 miles to the west.
Photograph depicts a C.P.R. wrecking crane at the Vancouver station.
Photograph depicts a C.P.R. wrecking train unit at Vancouver station.
Photograph depicts the rear view of an elevator showing its name. Track was on the far side.
Photograph depicts a grain elevator which Wynndel was famous for.
Photograph depicts a grain elevator that had a 7 car spur to service it. Davies doubted if grain traffic ever moved by rail near Wynndel. Two flat cars appeared to have used the platform to overload machinery and vehicles.
Photograph taken looking north, with a spur in the foreground. It was used by ore mixed freight daily. It was believed that at the bottom of the grade was a junction with a GNR branch that ran from the US border south of Creston to Kootenay Lake (built in 1904, then was hardly used, finally ceased in 1910).
Photograph depicts a ballast car filled with gravel, not track ballast.
Photograph depicts mechanized tie replacements.
Photograph depicts lumber mill yard at the end of the 31st mile. A brand line is beside Slocan Lake. Shows flat chip and E bulkhead cars of C.P's as well as 500 flat cars.
Photograph depicts the CPR locomotive yards at Drake St. in Vancouver. The disused winch in shack is used for moving cars into the repair shed. There is bushes growing out of the track.
Photograph depicts a general view of the C.P.R. yards at False Creek in Vancouver, B.C.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. yards in Vancouver, just west of railway station in the downtown area. The view is looking east from Burrard St.
Photograph depicts the CPR yards in Vancouver, adjacent to Centennial Pier. The view is looking west.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. yards just west of downtown passenger station and in front of Pier B, owned by the C.P.R. The view is looking northwest from Burrard St.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. yards on Cambie St. in Vancouver, B.C. The view is looking west with False Creek on the left (out of the picture), after a snowfall.
Photograph depicts the CPR yards at Drake St. The view is looking east to the Cambie St. bridge in Vancouver. The track behind the camera leads to the Homer St. warehouse complex.
Nunavut
Nunavut
Victoria, B.C.
Photograph depicts a craggy mountain peak covered with coniferous trees and snow.
Photograph depicts Craigellachie station, a famous spot on the C.P.R. line. The trans-continental line was joined here on November 7, 1885, about 250 yards down the track just beyond the right hand colour aspect signal. The depot house is not manned, used by the line side crews to store equipment. In former days it was a passing point, but there are very few houses in the area now.
Detail of Viburnum trilobum in fruit
<i>Vaccinium</i> [?] Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut
Detail of [<i>Viburnum ?</i>] in fruit
Habitat of <i>Vaccinium</i> and moss, Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut
Detail of autum foliage of Viburnum trilobum
Habitat of Viburnum trilobum
Habit of [<i>Viburnum ?</i>] in fruit
Habit of Viburnum trilobum in fruit
Detail of Viburnum trilobum in flower
Detail of Viburnum trilobum in fruit
Winter landscape
Prince George, B.C.
Prince George, B.C.
Cranbrook Hill Watercolour Card consists of 1 folded card printed with a watercolour painting by June Swanky Parker of the view from the Cranbrook Hill site of UNBC
Prince George, B.C.
Prince George, B.C.