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2013.6.36.1.010.41 · Item · Oct. 1965
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a C.N. locomotive at Riverside Park in Kamloops. It is s 2-8-0 locomotive # 2141 and was built in 1912 by the Canadian Locomotive Co. It is 68' long and 10'1" wide, with a light weight of 169, 200 lbs. It was converted to oil in 1948 and last ran from Cowichan Bay to Victoria on July 4, 1958. It was installed in the park in 1961.

2013.6.36.1.009.24 · Item · Mar. 1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the Canadian National Railway (CN) switcher #7218 and caboose on Lulu Island about to cross the New Westminster Highway, travelling northward on a spur. It came southwards as a loaded freight with 3 boxcars for a small spur behind the photo, and 3 empty cement tank cars for the Lafarge Cement Plant on the south bank of Lulu Island, half a miles distant behind the caboose.

CN Train Yard
2012.13.1.3.121 · Item · 12 Oct. 1989
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts a number of trains in the CNR train yard taken from River Road in Prince George, B.C. Map coordinates 53°54'51.5"N 122°43'29.6"W

2013.6.36.1.014.34 · Item · [May 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the C.N. tug "Pentowna" at Okanagan Lake in Kelowna. It is undergoing its annual refit. It was built in 1927 as a lake passenger steamer and converted to a tug at a later date. Her plates are in good condition.. The funnel is to be given the CN insignia.

CNR Albreda
2013.6.36.1.038.08 · Item · [30 June 1980]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a turning wye located on the left, just beyond a hut in th middle ground. Davies spotted a continuous rail a train and a work train on a spur siding.

CNR Albreda
2013.6.36.1.038.22 · Item · [2 July 1980]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts an outfit spur at the Albreda Subdivision. Image captured looking upgrade towards Valemount. A work crew was working on repairing rock retaining walls.

CNR Albreda
2013.6.36.1.038.06 · Item · [30 June 1980]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a continous rail train parked on the siding with work cars. Davies notes that it was most likely that the rail train would be laid there soon.

CNR Albreda
2013.6.36.1.038.07 · Item · [30 June 1980]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken at about mile 96.9 (from Jasper), Albeda Sub Division. The visible turning wye had been recently used, possibly by crate trains that Davies had spotted earlier at the location.

CNR Ashcroft
2013.6.36.1.036.07 · Item · [16 July 1973]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a derailment of a coal unit train between Basque and Martel, at about mile 63 which is approximately 15 minutes south of Ashcroft.

CNR bascule bridge
2013.6.36.1.156.01 · Item · Apr. 1993
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a CNR bascule bridge across the upper waters of Victoria Harbour. The rest of the trackage had been removed, except for the bridge itself.