Photograph depicts a disused CPR roundhouse and a used turntable at the Port Coquitlam yards. The view is looking east.
Photograph depicts a disused CPR roundhouse at the Port Coquitlam yards. The house had 8 stalls and may be used for other purposes, but not for locomotives.
Typed annotation associated with photograph: “City Hall – Port Coquitlam taken in 1950, according to the licence plate on the left-hand car. Left to Right: Jensen; Unidentified; R.P. Stone; Ralph Cave; Unidentified"
Collection consists of 140 photographs pertaining to the life and pursuits of James Joseph Claxton over the course of sixty years. Subject areas identified within this collection include: quartz and placer mining in the Cariboo; Kingcome Village; the Royal Irish Contabulary; Roderick's Jewelers, New Westminster; the "M.S. Columbia III"; Kwakiutl petrographs in Fort Rupert; totem poles at Alert Bay; and the Salmon Arm Boy Scouts of Canada group.
Claxton, James Joseph