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2013.6.36.1.142.02 · Item · Sept. 1997
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts CN rail vehicle that was for disposal. The track speeder was for 1 or 2 men crew, mainly for inspection of trackage prior to the passage of a train. Made by Fairmont Railway Motors Inc/Ltd. For sale when photograph was taken, gone by August 1998.

2013.6.36.1.142.13 · Item · Sept. 1997
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts CN speeders for disposal. Row of about 40 speeders/trolleys withdrawn from service to be scrapped. All self-propelled vehicles were made by Fairmont Railway Motors Inc/Ltd, Toronto. Engineless vehicles were made by Rail Car Canada.

2013.6.36.1.092.03 · Item · 1 Mar. 1991
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

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.

2013.6.36.1.092.11 · Item · 1 Mar. 1991
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

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.

CN crane 50399
2013.6.36.1.096.04 · Item · Oct. 1995
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a crane that had been overturned and damaged after it had been by a rock that had tumbled down a creek in north Thompson.

CN crane 50397
2013.6.36.1.096.02 · Item · Oct. 1995
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a crane that had just finished loading a flat car, minus its trucks, onto a road vehicle. It was going to be used on a logging bridge.

CN caboose
2013.6.36.1.102.18 · Item · [3 June 1989]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts train master Al Wingrave in a caboose stationed at the Kamloops Junction. Undergoing speed checks on the Clearwater Subdivision.

CN caboose
2013.6.36.1.102.20 · Item · [3 June 1989]
Part of David Davies Railway Collection

Photograph depicts a caboose that had just reached a terminal relief switch at Blue River. It was eastbound and contained 103 empty grain cars. Taken at the Kamloops Junction.