Photograph depicts a collision that occurred at the west switch of the crossing in Savona. At some point, freight was derailed by huge pipes that rolled on the track in November 1991.
File consists of collected research materials regarding Perry McDonough Collins and the Collins Overland Telegraph. Collins was the visionary behind the Russian-American Telegraph of 1865-1867. The failed venture aimed to connect America to Europe by telegraph via the Bering Strait. Materials include newspaper clippings, a book, as well as reproductions of articles, correspondence, and archival material. Highlights include:
- D.A. McGregor, "Through B.C. to Bering Sea-A Dream that Failed" from The Province, 1953 (article reproduction)
- John B. Daniell, "The Collins Overland Telegraph" from the Northwest Digest, 1960 (article reproduction)
- Illustration from Provincial Archives of British Columbia, "Williams Creek from the canyon To middle town (Barkerville)" from a painting by Frederick Whymper, [186?] (print photograph reproduction)
- Reproduction of Corday MacKay, "The Collins Overland Telegraph", 1866 (article reproduction)
- Hon. Homer D. Angell, "Congressional Record: Proceeding and Debates of the 78th Congress, First Session", 1943 (reproduction)
- Article entitled "Collin's Overland Telegraph" by Kathleen Fitzgerald in "The History of the Canadian West" collector's no. 1, 1982 (magazine issue)
- Willard E. Ireland, "The Collins Overland Telegraph", 1866 (article reproduction)
File consists of a folder containing information sheets regarding Canadian Pacific Railway locomotives. The sheets consists of Selkirk type 2-10-4, Hudson Type 4-6-4, Standard Type 4-4-0, Atlantic Type 4-4-2, Ten Wheeler type 4-6-0, Mallet Type 0-6-6-0, Jubilee Type 4-4-4, Switcher Type 0-6-0, Switcher type B-B, Shay geared type 3 truck,# Road unit type A1A-A1A, Consolidation 2-8-0, Santa Fe Type 2-10-2, Mikado Type 2-8-2, Baltic tank type 4-6-4T, Road Switcher B-B, Northern Type 4-8-4, Camelback type 4-6-0,#19 Mogul type 2-6-0, Road Freight type B-B,1 Pacific Type 4-6-2, Mountain type 4-8-2, gas-mechanical rail cars, Gas-mechanical rail cars, Decapod type 2-10-0, Switcher 0-8-0, and wheel arrangements.
Image depicts a collapsing shack somewhere in the Seton Portage area.
Postcard depicts the collapse of the bridge in Surprise Creek, BC1929. Showing locomotive 5767. Both crewmen killed. This locomotive was coupled to locomotive 5779 and as pusher engines were returning light to Beavermouth, when approaching, span collapsed. Sister locomotive escaped.
Collection of four photographs of the Prince Rupert dry dock. Two images are the finished dry dock buildings. One image is of construction. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Before Launching Canadian Scottish Dry Dock, Prince Rupert BC."
Collection of four photographs of the Prince Rupert dry dock. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Dry Dock and Ship Building Plant, Prince Rupert BC."
Captions below images on recto read: “H.M.C.S. Thiepval. Capt Beech.; In surf Recks and Fog. Wikelski Island; The Aeroplane; Major Stuart MacLaren, and party, at Prince Rupert. B.C.; British Around –the –World, Wrecked Aeroplane”.
Printed captions below images on recto read: “Souvenir of Prince Rupert BC; Prince Rupert June 1st, 1909; Prince Rupert Sept 1st, 1913; Public School; Water Front; City Hall; Haye Cove; Margaeto Fleet; Harbour Scene; SS Prince Marquitta at Prince Georg; Sunrise Prince Rupert Harbour; General Hospital; Gold Storage Place; Prince Rupert from Summit”.
Water level photograph of several small vessels gathered around a large cold storage building. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Cold Storage, Prince Rupert B.C. 66."
Item is a photograph of the coffer dam built to isolate the construction site for the W.A.C. Bennett Dam.
Photograph depicts the Cobble Hill Station on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway on Vancouver Island. The view is looking south.
Photograph depicts the coasting vessel "Hecate Prince" owned by the Northland Navigation Co. Ltd. at their wharf on the southeast side of Vancouver Harbour.
Photograph depicts a Coastgaurd ship, "Narwhal," at the Department of Transport wharf in Seal Cove.
Photograph depicts Coastguard launch #105, found beside an old life boat station. Tofino and Bamfield were the only two lifeboat stations in B.C. They were manned by oared boats and then converted to the present style in 1950.
Photograph depicts the coast guard cutter "Racer" at Burrard Federal Dock in Kitsilano, Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the coast guard crash boat "Moorhen. It is an ex- RCAF rescue launch at Kitsilano Federal wharf, False Creek, Vancouver. Sister ship is the "Mallard."
Photograph depicts coal wharves at the seaward end of the railway that connected with coal mines at Cumberland and Union Bay. Image captured looking northwest with coke ovens located on the right and covered by brush.
Photograph depicts coal wharves of a defunct railway that ran bewteen coallieries at Cumberland and Union Bay. The ground on the left appeared to be filled, recently dumped and bulldozed flat.
Photograph depicts Coal Harbour in Vancouver. The view is looking east.
Photograph depicts Coal Harbour in Vancouver. The view is looking east at the Bayshore Hotel and facing the Harbour Park Development site, newly filled with rock.
Photograph depicts Coal Harbour in Vancouver. The photo was taken nearly at the head of the harbour on the south side.
Photograph depicts a coach stock in the C.P.R. False Creek yards in Vancouver, B.C.
Photograph depicts details of a switch stand built by Canadian Ramaco Iron Works, Niagara Falls patented 1933. Found adjacent to the BC Forest Products Mill.
Photograph taken 200 yards west of the Youbou depot which can be seen through the trees at the top right. The spur lead to the BC Forest Products Mill.
Photograph taken at the end of the CNR track on Vancouver Island. The track was built in 1928 and it went to the end of Cowichan lake at Kissinger, but it was cut back in 1936 to Hawes on mile 90.6. The track was reduced by 8 miles to this point prior to 1972.
Photograph taken at the end of the branch line from Cowichan Bay to the BC Forest Products Mill in Youbou.The spur on the right was the second of 2 rail entrances to the mill and was the one that was most often used.
Photograph depicts a private spur leading to the BC Forest Products Mill.
Photograph depicts a switch found in the immediate foreground that lead to a totally overground "Y" on the right.
Photograph depicts a setak decked, flat car with old style springs carring a modern bunk car. It was part of a 5 car work train containing a gondola, tool, generator, above car, and a depressed flat car to carry a bulldozer.
Photograph depicts a tool generator car. Image captures part of a five car work train containing: a gondola, tool car, box car, bunk, as well as a depressed flat car to carry a bulldozer.
Photograph depicts work cars found in the background. Siding here could hold 54 cars. Davies notes that Wire Cache was named so because an overland telegraph company dumped a telegraph wire by the a stern wheeler.
Photograph taken at the "Winch Spur" depot, located 1 mile south of Lytton and Fraser Canyon. Image displays contractors erecting a high voltage transmission line from the Peace Dam to Vancouver. They had just reached this point and now were using a used single spur to offload trucks, electric cable, etc.
Photograph depicts the grade crossing at Topham Road in the community of Walnut Grove within Langley, BC
Photograph depicts double tracking that was in progress. A second road bed had been built in 1982. Track was built in 1984. It was about to be spliced into a 131 car length siding.
Photograph depicts double tracking that was in progress. Existing siding was about to be spliced into a new south bound track.
Photograph taken on the Victoria to Deerholme branch. Track was close to the east side of Sooke Basin and near Matheson Lake Park. At this date, the branch was used weekly between Deerholme and the way point was as far as the Rocky Point Ammunition Depot which was about 3 miles east of where the photograph was taken.
Photograph taken at a coal yard to the east of Tyee Road and north of Bay Street in Victoria.
Photograph depicts a trestle over the Selkirk waterfront in the Victoria harbour.
Photograph depicts the former line from the CNR yards in downtown Victoria. Taken from Boleskine Road overbridge, looking north.
Photograph depicts a track located beyond a road covered in dense bushes. The rail in the foreground is dated 1918 and 1912. Image captured on Jacklin road, estimated to be on mile 9.2 in the former Cowichan Subdivision.
Photograph depicts the CNR main line from Victoria to Duncan. Image captured looking south from Gorge Road towards a Selkirk water trestle. The line behind the camera was in regular use to the Cedar Hill Grass Roads spur. The main line beside the Island highway ran west out of Victoria.
Photograph depicts the entrance to the CNR yards on the west side of the Selkirk waterfront in Victoria. A trestle bridge is immediately behind the camera.
Photograph taken on Jacklin Road in the former Cowichan Subdivision. With a few exceptions of short length removals, trackage of the Subdivision remained intact in metro Victoria. It was last used in regular service in September 1965.
Photograph depicts the end of the trackage near Cedar Hill Cross Road and Borden Road in Saanich. This line was formerly part of the Victoria to Sidney line built by the Canadian Northern Pacific in 1913-1914.
Photograph taken in the Cowichan Subdivision at Metchosin on mile 14.8 from Victoria.
Photograph taken at Kaptara in the north-west extent of Shawnigan Lake and part of the Lake Cowichan Branch.
Photograph taken at the CNR Vancouver Island line. Rails and ties were being lifted prior to the date the photograph was taken. Image displays the location of the station's west end siding switch.
Photograph depicts the CNR Vancouver Island line being dismantled. Image captured a section that was left intact and was now owned by a preservation group. Rails labelled "Illinois 1918."
Photograph taken in the Sooke Lake vicinity. Image captures the road from Shawnigan Lake to Leechtown which is intersected by former trackage. The track may have been removed in 1982.