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File consists of research material regarding Railway Post Offices (RPOs). Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "Railway Post Offices" by R. Thurlow Fraser; "Railway Mail Service in British Columbia" notes by Davies; "RPOs in British Columbia" notes by Jack Wallace; "Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway Passenger Trains and R.P.O.s" by Jack Wallace; and "Catching and Throwing the Mail" by Ted Lamson. Also includes information on postal services on the E&N, RPO cancellation stamps, mail cars, mail cranes and catchers, and mail sorting.

File consists of general material regarding rail freight transport. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about L.C.L. (Less-Than-Carload) service, freight way bills, car loading statistics, freight customers in British Columbia, freight revenue, freight car pooling, the effect of the 2008 recession on freight traffic, and freight on short lines. Also includes a 1969 CN booklet of "Car Sealing Instructions" and a 2004 publication by Jeff Wilson entitled "The Model Railroader's Guide to Industries Along the Tracks".

File consists of material regarding rail freight in transit. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about unusual freight loads, open loads, shipments of smaller locomotives on flatcars, unsecured loads, and LCL (Less-Than-Carload) freight.

File consists of material regarding freight loading and discharging devices. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about coal unloaders, rotary dumping, lumber loading, ore loading, loading and unloading of grain, and team tracks.

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the coal mining industry. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "Once Accursed the Crowsnest Blooms" by G. Patrick Green; "Coal Mines of Vancouver Island" compiled by Davies; "How Strong is Coal?" by Andy Cummings; "Coal Mines in the East Kootenays of B.C." compiled by Davies; "Coal From the Crowsnest: How Canadian Pacific moves British Columbia Bituminous" by John Garden; "Cumberland: Coal-dust Memories Stir a Sleepy Village" by McGill and Strong; "Quintette Mine: The Heart of North East Coal"; and "Where's That Coal Train Going?" by Tom Murray.

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the coke fuel industry. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about coke ovens at Union Bay, Fernie, and Michel.

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the ore smelting industry. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about the Granby smelter at Anyox and Grand Forks, the Trail and Kimberley zinc and lead smelter mines, the Rio Tinto Alcan aluminum smelter at Kitimat, and the Greenwood copper smelter.

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the lumber and plywood industries. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about sawmills in British Columbia, lumber reload centres, companies that transport lumber by rail, Mountain Pine Lumber box cars, sawmill closures, the Council of Forest Industries of BC, and Fraser Mills in Coquitlam. Also includes a "List of Sawmills/Plywood Plants in BC since 1960s" compiled by Davies.

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the cement, brick, glass, gypsum, and limestone industries. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about Lafarge Cement, limestone quarrying in British Columbia, the cement industry at Kamloops, Clayburn Brickworks near Abbotsford, the limestone quarry and kiln at Pavilion, gravel processing, the Tilbury Cement Company, the gypsum mine in Falkland, and railway ballast quarries.

File consists of material regarding freight transport for the petroleum and liquid chemicals industries. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about chemical tank car traffic in caustic soda (sodium hydroxide), bitumen (asphalt), ethylene glycol, sulphuric acid, petroleum, chlorine, ammonia, and other liquids.

File consists of copies of Davies article, "Moving Livestock by Rail: An Inquiry into an Extinct Traffic", which was published in the Spring 2006 issue of The Sandhouse.

File consists of material regarding Heisler locomotives, a type of geared industrial railway locomotive built by Stearns Manufacturing Company of Erie, Pennsylvania. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of material regarding Porter locomotives, a type of light-duty locomotive manufactured by H.K. Porter, Inc. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes background notes by Davies on the H.K. Porter company and a compiled list of all known Porter locomotives that worked in British Columbia and the Yukon.

File consists of material regarding the Canfor Logging Railway in Nimpkish Valley on Vancouver Island. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals. Includes information about Nimpkish Valley, the Englewood Logging Railway, steam locomotives of the Nimpkish Valley, and Canfor company history. Also includes a BC Railway Historical Association Bulletin No. 2 from June 1960 entitled "Canadian Forest Products Limited Nimpkish Valley Railway".

File consists of a BC Railway Historical Association publication by David M. Rees-Thomas entitled "Timber Down the Capilano: A History of the Capilano Timber Company on Vancouver's North Shore".

File consists of material regarding the industrial railway of the lead-zinc mine known variously as the Sullivan Mine/Cominco Mine/Kimberley Mine in Kimberley, British Columbia. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of material regarding the Clayburn Brick Company industrial railway. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of a Pacific Coast Division Canadian Railroad Historical Association publication by Eric L. Johnson entitled "Mining Railways of the Klondike: Narrow Gauge Railways Serving Coal Mines on Cliff Creek and Coal Creek, and a Placer Gold Operation on Bear Creek, Yukon Territory, 1899 to 1918".

File consists of material regarding the British Columbia Museum of Mining and the Britannia Copper Mine. Predominantly consists of tourist pamphlets, commemorative publications, photocopy reproductions, excerpts from books, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of material regarding the preservation of Canadian Pacific Railway locomotive 2816 'The Empress'. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, pamphlets, and clippings from periodicals. Includes the following works: "They Call Her 'The Empress'" by Jeff Terry; "CPR 2816 Back in Steam After 40 Years"; "Steam Returns to the Crowsnest" by John Godfrey; "six October Days Behind 2816" by Fred Angus; "2816 Bids Farewell--For Now" by Ian Smith; "CPR 2816 Reawakens after 40 Years" by Ian Smith; and "CPR 2816 Reborn for 21st-Century Service" by Ian Smith.

File consists of material regarding the East Kootenay Railway and Provincial Heritage Park at Fort Steele. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, pamphlets, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of material regarding the Three Valley Gap roundhouse and heritage ghost town. Predominantly consists of photocopy reproductions, pamphlets, and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of material regarding the attraction near Duncan known variously as the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum, the BC Forest Discovery Centre, and the British Columbia Forest Museum Park. Includes pamphlets, ticket stubs, and clippings from periodicals. Also includes issue no. 23 of 'Museum Round-Up' from July 1966 that features a cover story on the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum.

File consists of material regarding the movie, "The National Dream: Building the Impossible Railway", which was a CBC TV series based on Pierre Berton's books "The National Dream" and "The Last Spike". Predominantly consists of pamphlets, news releases, and clippings from periodicals.

File contains a publication by Barrie Sanford entitled "Train Master: The Railway Art of Max Jacquiard".

File contains a publication by Allan Anderson and Betty Tomlinson entitled "Greetings from Canada: An Album of Unique Canadian Postcards from the Edwardian Era, 1900-1916".

File consists of issues of "The Sandhouse", the journal of the Canadian Railroad Historical Association Pacific Coast Division. Contains various complete issues relating to multiple railway subjects. Also includes miscellaneous excerpted articles from Sandhouse issues.

File consists of issues of "Canadian Rail", the journal of the Canadian Railroad Historical Association. Contains various complete issues relating to multiple railway subjects. Also includes miscellaneous excerpted articles from Canadian Rail issues, many of which look at broader Canadian rail history.

File consists of material regarding other railway associations, including the BC Railway Historical Association and the National Model Railroad Association. Consists of correspondence and clippings from periodicals.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the CPR Kettle Valley Railway at McCulloch depot in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the CPR Lower Main Line from Midway to Crowsnest in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Rosebery and Nakusp Canadian Pacific Railway Branch.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the CN main line from Port Mann to Kamloops, British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the CN branch on Lulu Island, British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the CN branch of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the forest and lumber industry in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the B.C.E.R. in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of CPR scale test cars in Kamloops, British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of bridge replacements in Campbell Creek, Kamloops, British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of CN spurs at the Kamloops Indian Reserve in Kamloops, British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of a CN roundhouse at the Kamloops Junction in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the CPR line in Castlegar, British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Procter-Harrop area of the CPR Nelson Subdivision in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the CN Rocky Mountaineer train entering Kamloops, British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of snow plows and flangers in British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of a CPR coal train wreck near Lafarge in Kamloops, British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of CNR maintenance of way equipment in Boston Bar, British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of two CN derailments in Savona, British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the CPR depot in Salmon Arm, British Columbia.

File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of a model tank speeder in Kamloops, British Columbia.