Photograph depicts rolling stock on a spur trestle at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum on Somenos Lake.
Photograph depicts locomotive #25 at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. It was first used in building the C.N.R. in B.C. and/or western Alberta. The gauge is 3' and it is believed it was built to this gauge. The drive is Elmer Blackstaff, the chief mechanic at the museum.
Photograph depicts engines at the Pacific Coast Bulk Terminals in North Vancouver. They are owned by the Vancouver Wharves Co. Ltd. The engines are number 21 and 22 and are 0-6-0 tank engines built by Hudswell Clarke & Co., in Leeds in 1949. They were purchased from Samuel Williams from Dagenham, Essex, U.K. They reached Vancouver May 28, 1960 and were put into service in about November 1960.
Photograph depicts a 3-truck Shay locomotive #115 , Railway Appliance Company, Vancouver Wharves Ltd. in North Vancouver. It was built by Lima Locomotive Works Inc. in October 1929 as works #3344. The 11 and the 5 of 115 are different castings, and the holes in the plate suggest the locomotive was #11 before.
Photograph depicts the Pacific Coast Terminals in North Vancouver. Shay locomotive #115 is in the yards.
Photograph depicts two 3-truck Shay locomotives, #114 and behind her #115, belonging to the Railway Appliance Company at the Vancouver Wharves Ltd. in North Vancouver. They are in daily or weekly use. Both were built by Lima Locomotive Works Inc. Locomotive #114 was built in July 1928 as #3320 and #115 was built in October 1929 as #3344.
Photograph depicts the Pacific Great Eastern depot in Lillooet. In the photograph is the front coach #31 of a two-coach Budd car train, 5 minutes after arrival, being checked and serviced. On this day this two-coach unit left from North Vancouver at 8 am and arrived at Lillooet at 1:15 pm. It left Lillooet at 4:05 pm and returned to Vancouver at 9:30 pm. The total mileage run was 315 miles.
Photograph depicts the Pacific Great Eastern yard crane at the Brackendale yards, north of Squamish. The crane was built by Industrial Works, Oak Bay, Michigan in 1913. Can left 12 tons at a 12ft radius and 3 tons at a 35 ft. radius.
Photograph depicts Pacific Great Eastern log cars beside Green Lake, 35 miles north of Squamish.
Photograph depicts an old passenger car converted to a cafe at Pemberton and Anderson Lake. It is either at Mount Currie or D'Arcy.
Photograph depicts the Pacific Great Eastern line beside Anderson Lake, west of Lillooet. The photograph was taken from the engineer's compartment of a Budd car unit/
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of ships in British Columbia.
Photograph depicts a top deck of a CPR ship named "Princess Louise" awaiting gutting at Lynn Terminals, North Vancouver.
Photograph depicts a docked container ship in British Columbia.
Photograph depicts a steam tugboat named "Master" owned by the World Ship Society (Vancouver Chapter). Photograph taken during Carnival and Regatta week in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the "Princess of Vancouver" loading at 7 p.m. in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts a tug at Kingcome Navigation Dock in Vancouver Harbour.
Photograph depicts the Canadian Coast Guard rescue launch "Moorhen" or "Mallard."
Photograph depicts a tugboat named "Gillking" docked at an unknown location.
Photograph depicts an island tug in Vancouver harbour.
Photograph depicts a replica of the S.S. Moyie built and photographed at Burrard Shipyard & Marine Ways Ltd. on 1729 West Georgia St., Vancouver. It was launched on June 15, 1965.
Photograph depicts the federal government paddle steam sternwheeler "Samson V" at New Westminster. It is used daily on the Fraser River to lift and move buoys etc. It was built in 1937 at New Westminster. It operates between the mouth of the Fraser and Mission. Its crew of 10 is made up of a captain, mate, bosun, two deckhands, cook, steward, chief engineer, greaser, and engineer. It is kept in excellent shape, inside and out.
Photograph depicts the stern wheel of the federal government steamer "Samson V," tied up at New Westminster.
Photograph depicts the C.N.R. S.S. Canora at Tilbury, an isolated rail slip in Delta on the south Fraser River, 1 1/2 miles east of Deer Island Tunnel. The ship was built in 1918 at Levis, Quebec and has Quebec as its port of registry. It has oil burning, 4 boiler reciprocating engines and 4 cylinders (1 H.P. exhausting to 1 lesser H.P., then exhausting in parallel to 2 L.P.). It has 2 screws and 2 rudders, 1 pair at the bow and stern.
Photograph depicts the C.N.R. S.S. Canora rail car carrier between Victoria and Tilbury on the lower Fraser River. It carries 18 rail cars but in practice only 16, as 2 tank cars are kept forward and connected to the oil fuel tanks of the ship.
Photograph depicts the folding steel stern door of the S.S. Canora C.N.R. ferry to Vancouver Island. The door is raised and lowered by a 2 cylinder steam winch.
Photograph depicts the U.S.S. Cowell, a heavy destroyer in English Bay, Vancouver during the maritime festival, with a yacht from the Victoria Yacht Club alongside.
Photograph depicts the H.M.C.S. Mackenzie in English Bay in Vancouver during the maritime festival.
Photograph depicts the ship the "Princess of Vancouver" emerging westwards from the First Narrows in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the ship the "Princess of Vancouver" passing Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver, outward bound.
Photograph depicts the C.N.R. ship "Prince George" passing under the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the steam tug "Master" in English Bay, Vancouver during the maritime festival.
Photograph depicts the C.P.R. rail ferry transfer #4, registered at Victoria. It is tied to the western side of C.P.R. Pier A! at Vancouver. It holds four tracks and is not self-propelled.
Photograph depicts a derelict naval vessel at Wolfson Creek, in the booming grounds of Mahood Logging Co, about 6 -8 miles southwest of Powell River. There is a second identical vessel downstream about 200 yards away.
Photograph depicts the "Queen of Powell River" built in 1965. B.C. Ferry Authority loading at Earls Cove for Saltery Bay (Powell River).
Photograph depicts two B.C. Forest Service boats, the "Silver Fir" on the left and the "Cherry II", in Pender Harbour on the Sechelt coast.
Photograph depicts a section of floating dock on the north shore of the Vancouver Harbour, between Lynn Terminals and the Second Narrows Bridge. It is one of four sections and arrived here in mid 1965.
Photograph depicts the B.C. Ferry Authority ship the "Comox Queen" at the Little River wharf on Vancouver Island. It is 4 miles north of the village of Comox.
Photograph depicts the S.S. "BC Standard" at Westview Harbour, Powell River. The ship was registered in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the C.N. tug "Pentowna" at Okanagan Lake in Kelowna. It is undergoing its annual refit. It was built in 1927 as a lake passenger steamer and converted to a tug at a later date. Her plates are in good condition.. The funnel is to be given the CN insignia.
Photograph depicts a disused C.N.R. rail barge at Tilbury in the lower Fraser River, looking upstream. The shadow is of a bridge, sleeping and messing quarters for the crew. It is not known if the barge is self-propelled but it seems unlikely from its appearance.
Photograph depicts Coal Harbour in Vancouver. The view is looking east.
Photograph depicts a CPR rail ferry slip in downtown Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the CPR line in Vancouver. Confusingly, the street is called "Mainland" but the box cars were spotted at the rear of 1152 Hamilton St. The nearest car is a Penn Central 167223, built in November 1972 and behind it is CP 165230 insulated box car. The view is looking northeast.
Photograph depicts the CPR line on Mainland St. in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the CP rail and the edge of the Homer St. warehouse complex in Vancouver. The view is looking northeast at the western end of Mainland St. The building is at #1152 Mainland St. The right hand track (man's shadow it) goes down Mainland and is in apparent use. The rail on the left hand track is dated 1938.
Photograph depicts the CPR line approximately 100 yards south of the Richards and Pacific St. intersection in Vancouver. The waste ground on the right was formerly occupied by the Canadian Pipe Co., Canadian Wood Pipe & Tanks Ltd., and the Pacific Coast Pipe Ltd. from 1923-1972.
Photograph depicts an unnamed harbour road that runs to the north of , and parallel to Water St. The trackage is connected behind the camera to a CPR depot and at the other end to the mainline. No spurs lead off to the docks. The track is not used but usable.
Photograph depicts a CPR caboose #436917 in New Westminster. It is all wood and was built in 1928. It was lettered "Rubbish service between New Westminster and Coquitlam." A crewman said it was quiet running compared to modern all metal ones.
Photograph depicts a disused CPR roundhouse and a used turntable at the Port Coquitlam yards. The view is looking east.