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Passenger car at Cranbrook
2013.6.36.1.028.18 · Item · 18 Aug. 1983
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a 12 wheeler passenger car, CPR #411641, used as car man's sleeper. Behind it is wash/shower car #412718. It is followed by work diner car #411369, which is also a 12 wheeler with an arch bar truck. They are used for work and wreck train service.

Passenger ferry "MV Ballena"
2020.08.01 · Item · [between 1914 and 1920]
Part of Pacific Great Eastern Railway Region Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts the "MV Ballena" docked at a wharf. The Ballena was a passenger ferry built in 1892 by the Albion Iron Works Company of Victoria and originally named the Joan. This ship was sold to the Terminal Steam Navigation Company in 1914 and renamed the Ballena. It was later acquired by the Union Steamship Company in 1920 but burned at the Union dock in November of that year.

2013.6.36.1.001.78 · Item · [May 1965]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the rail connections below the north bank of the Patullo Bridge in New Westminster. The track in the foreground belongs to C.N. and the flyover foreground rail bridge belongs to the B.C. Electric Railway. The flyover background rail bridge is shared by the Great Northern Rail and C.N. Rail.

2011.13.54 · Item · 9 August 1911
Part of Parker photograph collection

Side perspective photograph of a crowd of people gathered around a Portland Canal Short Line Railroad train, presumably either leaving or arriving Printed annotation on recto reads: "Bitter Creek BC Aug 9 1911."

2011.13.53 · Item · 9 August 1911
Part of Parker photograph collection

Side perspective photograph of a Portland Canal Short Line engine being either loaded or unloaded by several men at the station in Stewart, BC. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Aug 9 1911 Stewart BC."

Peace River?
2012.13.1.91.06 · Item · Oct. 1978
Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

Image depicts what is possibly the Peace River running parallel to a road, possibly Highway 29.

Pedestrian overpass
2013.6.36.1.104.01 · Item · [13 June 1993]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a pedestrian overpass, with rail below, leading to the Riverside Park and Coliseum. CPR container freight was moving westwards.

PGE Australian
2013.6.36.1.045.46 · Item · [3 July 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a trestle near Australian, BC on mile 364. Visible is a northbound freight of 2 locomotives and about 60 cars.

PGE Chasm
2013.6.36.1.045.10 · Item · [22 May 1972]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a section house, track motor shed, and a disused bunk house and supplies shed which are property of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway.

2020.08.43 · Item · [between 1913 and 1923]
Part of Pacific Great Eastern Railway Region Photograph Collection

Photograph depicts an early model Jordan Spreader used in the construction of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway. A railway worker is standing on the spreader. The stencil on equipment states "P.G.W.R.R.". The flora suggests that this photograph may have been taken somewhere in the Lillooet/Clinton area.

PGE Jordans
2013.6.36.1.045.31 · Item · Sept. 1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts an inspection speeder passing Jordans which was near the Whistler Mountain ski lift.

PGE Kelly Lake
2013.6.36.1.045.25 · Item · [22 May 1972]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the remains of Pacific Great Eastern trackage beside a primitive small grain elevator laeding off at the end of the "Y" at Kelly Lake. It was probably not in use for the past 20 or 30 years, as of 1972.

PGE Kelly Lake
2013.6.36.1.045.58 · Item · [21 May 1972]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts gondola cars sitting on a turning Y, unloaded, and covered with plastic. They were awaiting switching to an ore mine loading loop about 5 miles up the line.

PGE Lillooet
2013.6.36.1.045.54 · Item · Aug. 1969
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts an auxillary car with a powered winch found at the Pacific Great Eastern yards in Lillooet. Inside the roundhouse in the background was a boiler room that contained a locomotive boiler in working order.

PGE Pavilion
2013.6.36.1.045.26 · Item · [22 May 1972]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken loooking southwards, down the Fraser Canyon, between Pavilion and Lillooet. Visible is a northbound Budd car going slowly up a steep grade.

PGE Quesnel
2013.6.36.1.045.30 · Item · 1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph location is unknown, but Davies stated it to be possibly somewhere north of Quesnel. A bridge is visible.