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Photograph depicts the CP rail and the edge of the Homer St. warehouse complex in Vancouver. The view is looking northeast at the western end of Mainland St. The building is at #1152 Mainland St. The right hand track (man's shadow it) goes down Mainland and is in apparent use. The rail on the left hand track is dated 1938.

Photograph depicts the C.P. pier in Vancouver. The ship "Chusan" is unloading cargo.

Photograph taken 20 miles east of Nelson at the Nelson Subdivision (Cranbrook to Nelson). The white substance near the track was a crude fill of some kind. Location was somewhere between Procter and Harrop.

Photograph depicts the CPR Nelson Subdivision in Procter. Located at a third of a mile spur to a barge slip. Its beginning is visible as a former switch site.

Photograph depicts the Nelson Subdivision in Procter. Until 1977, the rail/barge slip was used for lake traffic. All related facilities were removed. Track to slip located on the left. Rails were on existing spurs dated between 1898 and 1914.

Photograph depicts the CPR Nelson Subdivision in Procter. Passing siding rail dated 1954 as well as 1923. All Algoma Steel. The two spurs to the right usually only held work trains and ore rail of 1898-1914 vintage.

Photograph depicts the CPR Nelson Subdivision in Harrop.

Photograph depicts the switcher in Grand Forks. When CPR abandoned this city on KYR, there was a need for local switching to BN branch line, so a private company was created. 10 of these switchers were built in 1950/51 for the CPR. This particular locomotive retured in 1989 and was sold to GFR in 1993.

Photograph depicts CPR delivering 4 tank cars at an interchange track on Home Street. Kamloops Heritage Railways was commencing to build its facilities on the north side of the interchange track.

Photograph taken at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum.

Photograph taken at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum near Sommos Lake in Duncan. Visible is a 2 truck shay owned by Gerry Wellburn. It was sited beside the Island Highway, at the entrance of the museum.

Photograph taken at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum near Sommos Lake in Duncan.

Photograph taken at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum.

Photograph depicts men standing near three covered wagons pulled by team of horses on street. Buildings line the street on left behind trees with protective structures built around their trunks. A windmill stands near small building and woodpiles in background on right. Trees on hill are visible in distance. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Quesnel".

Photograph depicts the Courtenay terminus of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway. The view is looking north.

Photograph depicts large bridge and dam over a wide river, industrial structures throughout. Hills on opposite shore in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Coulee Dam, This is were[sic] I went this fall. Wished you had of been with me."

Image depicts a rail road bridge, possibly the Cottonwood Bridge, at an uncertain location.

Image depicts the Cottonwood Bridge.

Photograph depicts a street scent at the corner of Laselle and Second St. in Fort George. A wagon is visible in the dirt road and wooden buildings cross the mid ground. Three unidentified men sit on the boardwalk outside Rigg's Restaurant while one man stands in the doorway of The White Laundry.

Photograph depicts a former CPR grade of Copper Mountain. A spur at an Allenby concentrator was located on mile 5.6 from Princeton. Ore was first hauled on the track in October, 1920 as grading commeced in April, 1918. Track appeared to be in position, but little was it used unil 1956/1957, but then it was lifted.

Handwritten caption beside this photo reads: "Cookhouse in Winter". Photograph depicts top of building semi-visible behind large snow pile. Treetops can be seen in background.

Photograph of several full horse drawn carriages parked in front of an unidentified building. Procession may be a parade for some special event.

Photograph of several full horse drawn carriages going over a bridge in Stewart, BC.

Photograph depicts men standing on upper deck of conveyor, close to opposite shore, where lumber and buildings can be seen. Canoe in left foreground, trees and mountains in background.

Photograph depicts yellow conveyor belt in foreground over gravel pit, dump truck behind in midground. Mountains visible in background. Photo speculated to have been taken at the plant or near the Cassiar airstrip. Stamped annotation on recto of photograph: "JUN. 1987".

Photograph depicts a docked container ship in British Columbia.

Item is a photograph of the construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam

Item is a photograph of the construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam spillway.

Photograph depicts the Pacific Great Eastern Railway bridge under construction on the original route at Lillooet, which was active 1915 to 1931. Including its approach spans, the bridge was 2,630 ft. long, almost exactly half a mile. The mileage on the PGE's original mileage system was 120.6.

Photograph depicts the western portal of the 1916 Connaught Tunnel. Glacier station was located behind the camera.

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

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.

Photograph depicts a compressed air mine locomotive.

Photograph depicts a compressed air mine locomotive on exhibition at the roadside in Britannia Beach.

Photograph depicts the Comox Logging Railway main yard at Ladysmith.

Photograph depicts former Comox Logging locomotive #11.

Photograph depicts the former Comox Logging Railway headquarters.

Photograph depicts former yard and freight stock of the Comox Logging Railway.

Photograph depicts a part of the former ard of the Comox Logging Railway. It was now a little known park. Locomotive #11, Baldwin, also visible.

Photograph depicts former yard of the Comox Logging Railway. Locomotive shed in background. Locomotive #11, Baldwin, also visible.

Photograph depicts a Comox Logging Railway fire fighting tank car at Ladysmith.

Photograph depicts a homemade (?) device used to scour boiler tubs of scale. Taken at the former site of the Comox Logging Railway's yard and maintenance facilities.

Photograph depicts ballast car #175 built by Western Wheeled Scraper Company, Aurora, Illinois.

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.

Photograph depicts a small yard switcher used to switch cars in and out of repair shops. It was in use when the photograph was taken.

Photograph taken half of a mile north of the diamond crossing. Visible is a distant signal protecting the crossing. Davies noted that it had not been used for many years.

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.

Photograph depicts the division of Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd in Ladysmith.

Photograph depicts the division of Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd in Ladysmith. Visible is a fire car with a former locomotive headlight attached to it.

Photograph depicts a homemade snow plough that had a short wheel base between the trucks. The design of its main frame suggets that it might have been a crane before conversion to its present use.