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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.