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Photograph depicts a CNR heavy duty plow, built in 1939. Became property of the Kamloops Heritagae Railway Society.

Photograph depicts a CNR heavy duty plow, built in 1939. Became property of the Kamloops Heritagae Railway Society. Image captures a close up of the coupler and moveable lower front plate.

Photograph depicts a train commencing its trip in its yard, not at the station, in Port Alberni. Locomotive at the lower/city end (ie formation at the end of the last trip). It, at the time, needed to get to the head-end, so it took the siding.

Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific tourist railway train.

Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific Railway locomotive about to uncouple and run around its train. A sawmill station was behind the camera.

Photograph depicts a switching locomotive and stand-in locomotive.

Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific tourist railway locomotive backing onto its train of passenger cars (3 opened, 2 closed, all CN transfer cabooses, now remodelled).

Photograph taken on the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway main line out of Port Alberni with run-around siding over the right out of sight. Yard is found towards the rear. On the left, there was private trackage of the Nordeske paper mill that was in daily use until December 31, 2001 when Rail America stopped runnning freights because the mill went to road transport.

Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific railway train that was just coming into a run-around loop at the end of a sawmill spur. Trackage built 2000/01.

Photograph depicts Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway trackage in Port Alberni only used by the Alberni Pacific tourist railway. Visible is an interesting throw-type switch.

Photograph depicts a water tank car used for fighting line side fires. Propery of Alberni Pacific tourist railway. Sat in a yard in Port Alberni. Formerly owned by Crown Zellerbach of Ladysmith.

Photograph depicts an old tank car owned by a logging railway on Vancouver Island, parked at the end of a spur behind a locomotive shed of the Alberni Pacific Railway.

Photograph depicts a tiny switcher that belonged to the McLean sawmill and was buily by Buda of New Westminster, circa 1927. Sat on unconnected trackage adjacent to the Alberni Pacific Railway and was part of a sawmill exhibit.

Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific Railway locomotive built in 1929 by Baldwin. After at least four years of restoration, it commenced running in 2001. It was spotted outside of a locomotive shed in Port Alberni.

Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific Railway train that was very close the McLean sawmill (opened in 1926, closed in 1965).

Photograph depicts a primitive logging caboose. Believed to have been built by or for the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway in 1898.

Photograph depicts a CNR heavy duty plow, built in 1939. Became property of the Kamloops Heritagae Railway Society.

Photograph depicts a CNR heavy duty plow, built in 1939. Became property of the Kamloops Heritagae Railway Society.

Photograph depicts a CNR heavy duty plow, built in 1939. Became property of the Kamloops Heritagae Railway Society. Photo captures details of a door on its left side.

Photograph depicts the Pacific Rails Convention of Victoria on a field trip to Port Alberni. Travelling on the Alberni Pacific Railway to visit a steam-driven sawmill at its outer terminal. Chartered trip for convention members (one coach/bus load) as the line was not yet open for the tourist season.

Photograph depicts an Alberni Pacific Railway train travelling on Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway track, not used since 2002 and was now at the beginning of a connecting spur to a steam sawmill museum. It was built in 2000, but commenced in the 2001 summer season.

Photograph taken during the Inaugural Dedication of Heritage Stones. Canadian flags hang behind podium. Crowd sits under tent in grassy area, planes visible in background.

Item is one of three photographs accompanying a paper reading: “Comox Valley Air Force Museum Association, Inaugural Dedication of Heritage Stones, Sunday 04 June 2006”; see also items 2009.6.1.627 and 2009.6.1.628.

Front of engine reads "BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA". Building and construction area visible in background.

Photograph depicts 2 freight cars of the Okanagan Valley Railway.

Photograph depicts Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway trackage in Langford, Greater Victoria. Looking east towards Victoria and a grade crossing of Jacklin Road (north/south road).

Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway depot in Ladysmith. Track visible. Looking southward.

Photograph depicts former Comox Logging locomotive #11.

Photograph depicts a locomotive lettered "Central Kansas Railway" (possibly a parent company).

Photograph depicts Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway trackage on the outskirts of Greater Victoria, on the southwest edge of Langford Lake.

Photograph taken at outdoor function, see also items 2009.6.1.629 - 2009.6.1.634.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “model ships in G.H. Pool to honour BC Based H.M.C.S. (Esquimalt) + Admirals”.

The pair speaks in foreground as others in background look up at sky. Photograph taken at unidentified outdoor function, see also items 2009.6.1.629 - 2009.6.1.634.

Photograph depicts 2 car freight near Oyama on the CN branch from Kelowna to Vernon. The lead locomotive was lettered "Hudson Bay Railway." Central Kansas Railway may be a parent.

Photograph depicts 2 locomotives and a 2 car train, both northbound.

Photograph depicts what was believed to be a former repair coach/car shop. It held a Budd car in storage. Vegetation in the foreground shows passage of a vehicle in the last 2-3 months.