Photograph depicts the Nanaimo passenger depot of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway (at right) and the E & N freight shed (at left).
Photograph depicts the junction station of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway at Parksville on Vancouver Island. The view is looking south.
Photograph depicts yard signals of the MacMillan Bloedel & Powell River Logging Railway, primarily protecting the Comox Logging & Railway Company crossing. The Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway is about 300 yards to the north. Crossing is near Ladysmith. It is most unusual to find signal in B.C. at this point.
Photograph depicts the service car of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway in front of the E & N freight shed. The Nanaimo passenger depot (not depicted) is located behind the photographer.
Photograph depicts the rear view of two C.P.R. snowplows in the Coquitlam yards. The one in the forefront is #400790.
Photograph depicts the front view of two snow plows at the C.P.R. Coquitlam yards.
Photograph depicts a mechanical side cutting machine at the C.P.R. Coquitlam yards.
Photograph depicts a boxcar at the C.P.R. Coquitlam yards. Note the frame construction.
Photograph depicts the Malahat Station on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway on Vancouver Island. The view is looking south towards Victoria.
Photograph taken at the Duncan Forestry Museum.
Photograph depicts a locomotive at the Crown Zellerbach Museum in Ladysmith.
Photograph depicts a Comox Logging Railway fire fighting tank car at Ladysmith.
Photograph depicts 2-8-2 tank locomotive built by Baldwin in August 1929. It is #1055, belongs to the MacMillan, Bloedel, & Powell River Ltd., and is located at the Nanaimo River yards.
Photograph depicts an Elk Falls Ltd. locomotive in Campbell River.
Photograph depicts a locomotive on display in Forks on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. The locomotive is a #10 Lima, built in 1930 and weighs 94 tons, with a tractive effort of 38, 200 lbs.
Photograph depicts a 2 truck Shay locomotive on exhibition at the entrance to the city of Port Alberni.
Photograph depicts a 0-4-0 tank locomotive #7 built by Henschel & Sohn in Kassel, Germany in 1936. It is located at 215 Menzies St. in Victoria.
Photograph depicts the P.W.D. dredger at work in the north arm of the Fraser River in Vancouver.
Photograph depicts a BCER rail bridge at the entrance to False Creek, Vancouver.
Photograph taken on the Alberni-Tofino/Ucluelet logging public road on Vancouver Island. This stretches view was aimed towards the east and Kennedy Lake.
Photograph depicts a C.N. locomotive at Riverside Park in Kamloops. It is s 2-8-0 locomotive # 2141 and was built in 1912 by the Canadian Locomotive Co. It is 68' long and 10'1" wide, with a light weight of 169, 200 lbs. It was converted to oil in 1948 and last ran from Cowichan Bay to Victoria on July 4, 1958. It was installed in the park in 1961.
Photograph depicts a 0-4-0 porter saddle tank located in a public park in Fernie. It has a 4' 8 1/2" gauge and 170lbs of pressure. It was probably used with the car behind it to feed the 70 coke ovens situated just above Fernie, on the south side of the C.P.R. tracks. The three trams to the rear are 3' gauge.
Photograph depicts a locomotive on display. Location and details unknown.
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 the Pacific Coast Terminals in North Vancouver. Shay locomotive #115 is in the yards.
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 a top deck of a CPR ship named "Princess Louise" awaiting gutting at Lynn Terminals, North 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 a CPR rail ferry slip in downtown Vancouver.
Photograph depicts the B.C. Electric rail bridge crossing the north section of the north arm of the Fraser River from Vancouver to Mitchell Island. The span is always kept open except for rail traffic.
Photograph depicts Alexandra Bridge that crossed the Fraser Canyon.
Photograph depicts the Great Northern Railway station on Main Street, Vancouver being demolished.
Photograph depicts a boathouse at an unknown location.