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Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops. Cars were being pushed onto side pieces near the right-of-way.

Photograph depicts how wrecked cars were removed from the Brockelhurst derailment site using a CN rail crane and a rented Sterling Crane Co. crane, which was set up right beside the track. Here, the car was lifted from the side of the track and positioned above the rail track.

Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops. A wrecked car was being lifted high above the track.

Photograph depicts the body of a slightly damaged CPR caboose sitting on a gondola. Damaged as a result of an accident in the Kamloops yard, which is where the photograph was taken. Caboose was on its way to Calgary.

Photograph depicts a Lafarge cement loading spur.

Photograph depicts a wreck train in Kamloops. Urea pellets were sucked out by a road tanker and then sold to Purity Feeds Ltd.

Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops. Car #57630 found in the foreground and crane idler #58113 is next to it.

Photograph depicts wheel sets being loaded into ballast cars.

Photograph depicts a CN roundhouse that was built in 1929 at the Kamloops Junction. It was demolished in November, 1993.

Photograph depicts a hopper being dragged along a ditch/temporary road to the east end of the Brockelhurst derailment pile-up. It was to be hoisted onto a gondola car.

Photograph depicts the back end of a wreck train that had 2 ballast cars which are loaded with smaller pieces like wheelsm trucks, track bits, etc.

Photograph depicts the wrecked car being wedged into a gondola which was then drawn away and taken to the Junction yards and parked. The second switcher propels another gondola rapdily into position.

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.

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.