Photograph depicts an engine driven by air or steam. Taken near a turntable at Kamloops Junction.
Photograph depicts a CN caboose preserved in Kamloops.
Photograph depicts a CPR caboose sitting in a gondola in the Kamloops yard after being rammed in a switching accident. Another caboose is visible. Both cabooses were still used for local freights, ballast trains, etc.
Photograph depicts a damaged caboose body sitting in a gondola car. Damaged as a result of an accident in the Kamloops yard, where the photograph was taken.
Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops.
Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops. Captures a close-up of CN crane #50397, built in 1957.
Photograph depicts a switcher pushing an empty gondola car into position under a suspended wreck car.
Photograph depicts a CN roundhouse that was built in 1929 at the Kamloops Junction. It was demolished in November, 1993.
Photograph depicts a CN roundhouse that was built in 1929 at the Kamloops Junction. It was demolished in November, 1993. The prime reason for its demolition was not wanting to pay local taxes on a building rarely used for anything except for motor vehicles, general temporary storage, etc.
Photograph depicts a damaged CPR caboose body sitting on a gondola. Damaged as a result of an accident in the Kamloops yard, the location fo the photo.
Photograph depicts a slightly damaged CPR caboose sitting in a gondola. Damaged as a result of an accident in August at the Kamloops yard. It was on its way to Calgary.
File consists of records created and accumulated by Gary Runka over the course of his consultancy work for BC Ministry of Development, Trade and Tourism for the "Natural Resource Tourism Inventory" project in Kamloops. This file was numbered as G.G. Runka Land Sense Ltd. client file #297; that client number may be seen referenced elsewhere in the G. Gary Runka fonds. The Land Sense Ltd. client files generally include records such as correspondence, contracts, invoices, project reports, publications, ephemera, memoranda, maps or map excerpts, legal documents, meeting materials, clippings, and handwritten notes. File also includes 47 accompanying photographs.
Maps include:
- G.G. Runka Land Sense Ltd., "Natural Resource Tourism, Kamloops Resource Management Area - Tourism Capability Map", Sept. 1991
- G.G. Runka Land Sense Ltd., "Natural Resource Tourism, Kamloops Resource Management Area - Visual Resource Significance", Sept. 1991
- Reproduction of BC Ministry of Forests, "Map of Rec. Proj. 900-1-3-4716 (Chuwhels Mtn Trails), June 1967
Photograph taken at the Campbell Creek Industrial Park in Kamloops. Depicts the CNR end of head shunt. The connection with the Okanagan Branch is found in the middle distance.
The building of this spur in 1977 was a late and short lived attempt to move yearling cattle to Ontario for fattening by rail. The Last stock train ran in 1985. The CN rail track was still in use in August 1998. This photograph shows the spur running east and down grade to a stockyard owned by BC Interior Cattlemen's Association. Additional information is available in article, "Moving Livestock by Rail: An inquiry into an extinct traffic" in The Sandhouse journal, Issue 121, Spring 2006.
Photograph taken at the Campbell Creek Industrial Park in Kamloops. Visible CNR track was to be inactive by August 1998.
Photograph depicts the Vancouver to Armstrong section of the CN Okanagan Branch. Taken at O'Keefe, a former station site. Visible is a rail car deliverer.
Photograph depicts the Superior Propane Ltd. tank yard behind Wilkinson Steel Ltd.
Photograph depicts the Rocky Mountaineer in downtown Kamloops.
Photograph depicts the Rocky Mountaineer in downtown Kamloops.
Photograph depicts the Rocky Mountaineer in downtown Kamloops.
Photograph depicts cars of the Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours. Believed that the year the photograph was taken was the first that cars of the company were stored in Kamloops as before they were stored in Vancouver. The initial experience was bad because there was an unseasonable cold snap in November and December that froze all the batteries underneath the cars and ruined them (bursting occured).
Photograph depicts a northward view of the east side of the CN yards at the Kamloops Junction.
Photograph depicts Wilkinson Steel Ltd. The spur was serviced by CN. Visible is an empty bulkhead car that had recently been brought in for its steel.
Photograph depicts Wilkinson Steel Ltd. The spur line was inside the property with an empty bulkhead car awaiting removal.
Photograph depicts the demolition of a CN roundhouse at the Kamloops Junction.
Photograph depicts a turntable where behind it a former roundhouse stood.
Photograph depicts a turntable pit located at the CN Junction in Kamloops, BC
Photograph depicts a pedestrian overpass, with rail below, leading to the Riverside Park and Coliseum. CPR container freight was moving westwards.
Photograph depicts the Rocky Mountaineer in downtown Kamloops.
Photograph depicts the Rocky Mountaineer in downtown Kamloops.
Photograph depicts the sidings of the Rocky Mountaineer Railway Tours CN depot in downtown Kamloops.
Photograph depicts details of a CN derailment that occurred in Kamloops.
Photograph depicts a turntable located at the CN Junction in Kamloops.
Photograph depicts the CPR depot and a westbiund container freight standing in the yard. Two cabooses for local way-freight and a switcher were located on the rear spur.
Photograph depicts a Sperry Rail testing car in the CPR yard in downtown Kamloops. These cars must have been between 60 and 70 years old, but they were kept in excellent condition. Car #127 was built in 1926 and modernized in 1989.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Rocky Mountaineer in downtown Kamloops, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts the Rocky Mountaineer in downtown Kamloops. Locomotive #7488.
Photograph depicts the laying of an extra spur for passenger car storage of Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours at the CN Downtown Depot in Kamloops.
Photograph depicts the end of original 1916/17 trackage of the CNR in Kamloops. Track between a bitumen tank farm and a bridge that was not in use between about 1985 and 1995. In 1996, scrap metal was slowly piled beisde the trackside. 2-4 gondola's were visibly filled.
Photograph depicts the rear end of the first train of the 1994 season for the Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours at the CN Downtown Depot in Kamloops.
Photograph depicts the laying of an extra spur for passenger car storage of Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours at the CN Downtown Depot in Kamloops.
Photograph depicts the CN Downtown Depot in Kamloops.
Photograph depicts the Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours yard. Main line track is found on the left and was still used by CN for Okanagan freights and other miscellaneous trafffic.
Photograph depicts a CN swing bridge (built in 1927) over the South Thompson River. It was opened for tourist sternwheeler "Wandasue."
Photograph depicts Pounder Emulsions Ltd. which received bitumens and distributed them to blacktop plants from April till October.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of a CN roundhouse at the Kamloops Junction in British Columbia.
Photograph depicts a turntable located at the CN Junction in Kamloops. It was strpped of rails and decking prior to being lifted out of the well.
Photograph depicts a turntable that had been lifted out of a pit and set on the ground at the Kamloops Junction. Lifting had been done by two powerful sterling cranes.
Photograph depicts Beaver Trucking located on Kamloops Indian Reserve No. 1 on Tk'emlups te Secwepemc territory, Kamloops, BC. It had been a company since 1990 and received 2 or 3 boxcars weekly loaded with items from Toronto that were then delivered around town. Davies later noted that the business was destroyed by arson in 1997.
Photograph depicts a former turntable pit that was pictured immediately after the table was removed. The pit was later filled in with dirt/gravel. R.H. track wioth 2 locomotives was made into a running line. L.H. track that had a switcher was made into a dead-end spur.