Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops. It was an 80 car hopper train carrying urea fertilizer. It derailed 28 cars and most were severely damaged. Ripped up 200 meteres of the track.
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.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of a CN roundhouse at the Kamloops Junction in British Columbia.
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.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of CN Rail around Kamloops in British Columbia.
Photograph depicts a Lafarge cement loading spur.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of a CN derailment at Brocklehurst in Kamloops, British Columbia.
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.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of a CN turntable removal in Kamloops, British Columbia.
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.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the CPR around Kamloops, British Columbia.
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 depicts a CPR wreck crane stationed in Kamloops. It had just come from a crash site about 7 miles south from a hauling hopper car on a makeshift set up. Nearest set of tracks belonged to the car and were properly placed. Rear set of bogies were taken from the wreck site and the end of the wrecked car was placed on them.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of a CPR coal train wreck near Lafarge in Kamloops, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts a CPR coal train crash near Lafarge.
Photograph depicts a CPR coal train crash near Lafarge. The mid-slave locomotive axle was locked. The train arrived after its first switch after locking and then climbed the switch blade. It then derailed with 30 loaded coal cars.
Photograph depicts a CPR coal train crash near Lafarge.
Photograph depicts a CPR coal train crash near Lafarge.
Photograph depicts a CPR coal train crash near Lafarge. Visible is an almost undamaged car that was isolated from the main line as it was ripped out from the spur trackage.
Photograph depicts a CPR coal train crash near Lafarge. Visible is a damaged slave unit that was salvaged and standing on a spur in the Kamloops CPR yard.
Photograph depicts train master Al Wingrave in a caboose stationed at the Kamloops Junction. Undergoing speed checks on the Clearwater Subdivision.
Photograph depicts CPR cabooses travelling in the eastern outskirts of Kamloops.
Photograph depicts a CPR coal train crash near Lafarge.
Photograph depicts a CPR coal train crash near Lafarge.
Photograph depicts a CPR coal train crash near Lafarge.
Photograph depicts a CPR coal train crash near Lafarge.
Photograph depicts a CPR coal train crash near Lafarge.
Photograph depicts a CPR coal train crash near Lafarge.
Photograph depicts a CPR coal train crash near Lafarge.
Photograph depicts a CPR coal train crash near Lafarge.
Photograph depicts a CPR coal train crash near Lafarge.
Photograph depicts a CPR coal train crash near Lafarge.