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Thompson River
2013.6.36.1.106.04 · Item · 26 Aug. 1995
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts CN track 1 mile east of Walhachin. Looking east. Thompson River running downstream, towards the camera. CPR also goes through Walhachin.

Thompson River
2013.6.36.1.106.03 · Item · 26 Aug. 1995
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts CN track 1 mile east of Walhachin. Looking east. Thompson River running downstream, towards the camera.

Thompson River
2013.6.36.1.106.08 · Item · 26 Aug. 1995
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts CN track 1 mile east of Walhachin. Looking east. Thompson River running downstream, towards the camera.

Tank car
2013.6.36.1.136.26 · Item · [May 2007]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts an old tank car owned by a logging railway on Vancouver Island, parked at the end of a spur behind a locomotive shed of the Alberni Pacific Railway.

Switcher and caboose
2013.6.36.1.098.04 · Item · Aug. 1997
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts switcher #8106 and caboose #434612 that just arrived with a loaded train from a pulp mill. To the left lay the main track to Nelson.

Switcher #8106
2013.6.36.1.098.05 · Item · Aug. 1997
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts switcher #8106 that served the 3 mile branch to a pulp mill. The switcher pulled with heavy string of loaded cars from the mill. The trip was a caboose run. Locomotive built in 1958 as part of a batch of 31. 17 of them remained in 1997.

2013.6.36.1.016.21 · Item · 9 Oct. 1971
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the CPR swing bridge crossing the Harrison River at Harrison Mills. It is a plate girder bridge carrying a double track. The bridge tender occupied a shanty at the east end of the bridge at mile 68.3 from North Bend. The timetable states that trains may proceed at restricted speed after stopping, if the tender fails to appear after 4 whistle signals and the hone signals show stop.

2013.6.36.1.003.087 · Item · Jan. 1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a swimming pool at Second Beach in Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C. The snow in the foreground is 16 inches deep and there is a gathering snowstorm in the background coming in from the west.

Surviving building, Gerard
2013.6.36.1.072.02 · Item · 10 Sept. 1970
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the only surviving building in the ghost town of Gerard. Its survival was due to the ownership and periodic use of the B.C. Government Fisheries Department.

Sun Tower in Vancouver, B.C.
2013.6.36.1.002.085 · Item · Feb. 1966
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts the Sun Building at the intersection of Beatty and West Pender St. in Vancouver, B.C. The photo was taken after the Pacific Press Ltd. Vacated the building on December 26, 1965, and the "Sun" neon sign on the tower was removed. The view is looking west from West Pender St.

2013.6.36.1.014.29 · Item · [May 1966]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts steam tugs "Master" and "Prestige" at N.H.B. #4 Elevator in Vancouver Harbour. The "Prestige" has not been fired or looked after for at least 2- 3 years and had been moved to this position the previous day after being tied up elsewhere in the harbour in one position for over 12 months.