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2013.6.36.1.018.01 · Item · [2 Sept. 1970]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the joint CPR and CN depot at Vernon. The depot office had three employees working inside. Vernon is at mile 46.2 from Sicamous, on the Okanagan Subdivision of the CPR. It has daily way freight.

2013.6.36.1.018.05 · Item · 8 Aug. 1983
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the joint CPR and CN depot at Vernon. It shows a general view of the trackage, opposite the former depot, which is now attractively used for other purposes. The caboose on the left is CP # 437369, built in July 1949, and fairly recently painted.

2009.7.1.138 · Item · September 1933
Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

Boat floats close to shore in foreground, forest and hills on opposite shore in background. Joyce is the daughter of Bertha and W.E. Collison, and the granddaughter of Marion and Archdeacon W.H. Collison.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Upper Nass River Sept. 1933. Joyce with Tom Moorhouse & the medical officer".

Jura station
2013.6.36.1.150.12 · Item · 11 Aug. 1991
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken at the station in Jura. Depicts a waiting shack that used to be around the bend on the left side of mile 60.1. Until the 1970s, there were three tracks at the location. Track on the left side was the running line. Middle trackage was passing siding, while track on the right (lifted at the time the photograph was taken) was a spur/siding that held 33 cars. The helper locomotives were from Princeton, but were being disengaged in Jura.

2013.6.36.1.112.04 · Item · [29 June 2002]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken at the Kalamalka flag stop and siding that took up to 40 cars. A section house used to exist there, Davies notes. Virtually there was no public access in former days, so the siding was most likely used as a storage place for Kelowna fruit. A private speeder is found in the shadows on the main line.

2013.6.36.1.123.08 · Item · [29 June 2002]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken at the Kekuli Bay Provincial Park and boat launch. Image captures the view of all 25 speeders on an Okanagan tour of "Motor Car Operators West" (a U.S. group with western Canadian additions). On this segment, Davies travelled in the fifth speeder from the front.

2013.6.36.1.123.06 · Item · [29 June 2002]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken at the Kekuli Bay Provincial Park and boat launch. On the speeder meet, there was always a semi-official photograph of the whole group and this was the selected spot. Here, no power boats could take the see-saw.

Kelowna "main" line
2013.6.36.1.123.03 · Item · [29 June 2002]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken on the Kelowna "main" line, which was perhaps half of a mile south of the Lumby Junction on the very outskirts of Vernon.

Kettle River Bridge
2013.6.36.1.097.06 · Item · Aug. 1997
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken at Kettle River Bridge. Immediately on the far side of the river, the track did a sharp turn to the side of Christina Lake.

Kettle River Bridge
2013.6.36.1.097.05 · Item · Aug. 1997
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken at the Kettle River Bridge on the former Boundary Subdivision about 12 miles due east of Grand Forks. Visible is a deck truss and dock plate girder spans that were believed to have originally a covered bridge.

2013.6.36.1.124.06 · Item · 4 Aug. 1997
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken at the temporary upper terminus at the Prairie Valley station (near the Rodeo Grounds). The tourist train originally started with 4 kilometers of track, but in September 1996, it increased to 10 kilometers by continuing past Summerland to the Rodeo Grounds. Turn-around siding was also installed beyond the new terminus. The first train went over the new track on August 22, 1996. Summerland was down grade to the right of the photo.

KPR yard
2013.6.36.1.123.02 · Item · [29 June 2002]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the Kelowna Pacific Ralway yard in Vernon, near the CNR Okanagan Subdivision.

KVR Historical Society
2013.6.36.1.124.20 · Item · [June 1996]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a train that was reconditioned at the Forestry Museum in Duncan in 1995/6. At that location, Davies had seen its fire box being rebricked.

2013.6.36.1.025.36 · Item · [15 June 1980]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the inspection party at the end of their trip at the south end of the Klo Creek crossing. This is located at mile 86.55 on the Kettle Valley Railway in Myra Canyon, and is about 2.75 miles from Myra depot.