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BCER Granville Island
2013.6.36.1.048.14 · Item · 13 Mar. 1968
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken looking eastward on Cartwright Street with property of Brandham-Handerson Point Company at the right. A trank car, property of Union Tank Car Company (built in 1926) is visible along the building. The tank car was about to be switched by the BCER.

BCER Granville Island
2013.6.36.1.048.21 · Item · 13 Mar. 1968
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts BCER freight switching on the Island's trackage with B.C. locomotive #901 and tank car, property of Union Tank Car Company, built in 1926. Image captured directly underneath Granville Bridge.

Foam pumper and truck
2013.6.36.1.082.13 · Item · 2 Nov. 1968
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph taken at the main main fire station on the site of the former RCAF station near the Vancouver Airport. Visible is foam pumper #2, operated by the Federal Department of Tranpsort, as well as a Sicard truck.

PGE Vancouver
2013.6.36.1.045.43 · Item · 17 Mar. 1968
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a Pacific Great Eastern bridge over the Capilano River in northwest Vancouver. Also visible is a switching locomotive.

CPR ferry ramp
2013.6.36.1.055.09 · Item · 23 Nov. 1968
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a CPR rail ferry ramp, east of Pier A3 in Vancouver Harbour. Image displays details of the attachment of a barge to a ramp.

CPR ferry ramp
2013.6.36.1.055.10 · Item · 23 Nov. 1968
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a CPR rail ferry ramp in Vancouver Harbour. The ramp acted as a dock for the "Princess of Vancouver."

2013.6.36.1.055.27 · Item · 23 Nov. 1968
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the CPR waterfront yards in Vancouver Harbour. Roil was on the displayed flat car in order to build a new spur the led to a recently constructed rail-ferry slip.

CPR spur
2013.6.36.1.055.28 · Item · 23 Nov. 1968
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the site of a new CPR spur that was to be laid on a recently built rail ferry slip between Pier A3 and the old CPR Pier A.

"Japan Line"
2013.6.36.1.068.05 · Item · 23 Nov. 1968
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts containers being hoisted onto "Japan Line" by means of a steam derrick (owned by Mckenzie Barge and Derrick Co. Ltd.) tied alongside scow holding containers. Davies notes that this was an unusual sight.

Former "A" Pier of the CPR
2013.6.36.1.088.26 · Item · 9 Nov. 1968
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the former "A" Pier of the CPR near the entrance to Coal Harbour. Undergoing dismantling or major renovation of the pier. The steam crane on a scow belonged to Vancouver Pile Driving and Contracting Co. Ltd. Left of the crane's jib was a new CPR rail slip in construction.

2013.6.36.1.072.19 · Item · 28 Oct, 1967
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a house that had a "sold" notice on it and was partly demolished. Up to the date the photograph was captured, this block on Beach Ave. was the sole remaining one to have only houses on it, as opposed to a mixture of houses and apartment blocks, or blocks only.

Cannery, Fraser River
2013.6.36.1.068.10 · Item · 4 Mar. 1967
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a cannery at the seaward entrance to the south arm of the combined north arm of the Fraser river. Visible are a few rusted anchors. One was marked "Locomotive B.C. 100 Ibs. 1943 U.S. Navy."