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Sperry Rail Service inspection car
2013.6.36.1.089.04 · Item · Jan. 2002
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a Sperry Rail Service inspection car that had broken down in the CPR Kamloops yard. Car #127 was built in 1927 as a gas electric car for Boston and Maine R.R. It was modernized in 1989.

2013.6.36.1.123.01 · Item · [29 June 2002]
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a speeder meet of "Motor Car Operators West" enthusiasts. Comprised of 25 cars. All taking part in a weekend tour of the Okanagan. On this day, they were going from Vernon to Lumby and Kelowna. Cars were getting ready to depart at the yard of the Kelowna Pacific Railway in Vernon. The cars were headed south to be preceeded by hi-rail of the KPR.

KPR yard
2013.6.36.1.123.02 · Item · [29 June 2002]
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

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

Kelowna "main" line
2013.6.36.1.123.03 · Item · [29 June 2002]
Parte de 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.

2013.6.36.1.123.07 · Item · [29 June 2002]
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken on the outskirts of Kelowna, in an industrial area about 2 miles north of a branch terminal. The turn around point for all 25 speeders was done on a black-topped, little used public grade crossing.

2013.6.36.1.123.08 · Item · [29 June 2002]
Parte de 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]
Parte de 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.

2013.6.36.1.126.09 · Item · 21 Oct. 2002
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a departing southbound train. Here, in another 20 days from the time the picture was taken, all passenger traffic would cease. It had never happened in the 80 year old history of the PGE/BCR.

Model of 2 man track car
2013.6.36.1.121.01 · Item · Sept. 2002
Parte de David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a model of a 2 man track car presented to Giovanni Marra in 1973 upon his retirement as a CPR Kamloops road master. Model made by L.G. Snowden (modeller and then locomotive engineer for CPR).