Photograph depicts former KVR track in Summerland. CPR speeders were parked on the main line.
Photograph depicts the west yards of the KVR.
Photograph depicts a spur that led off on the norst side of the main line between Princeton and Brookmere. The last train seen here was in May, 1989.
Photograph depicts 2 Budd cars of a departing southbound train.
Photograph depicts a departing southbound train. Here, in another 20 days from the time the picture was taken, all passenger traffic would cease. It had never happened in the 80 year old history of the PGE/BCR.
Photograph depicts the Nelson Machinery yard in Savona.
Photograph depicts the Nelson Machinery yard in Savona.
Photograph depicts the Connaught Tunnel. Traffic was normally eastbound through it, while westbound traffic went through the new Mt. Macdonald Tunnel.
Photograph depicts the western portal of the 1916 Connaught Tunnel. The tunnel used to be double tracked, but was singled in the 1960s in orde to take piggy-back/container traffic. Curiously, the switch to the single was inside the tunnel.
Photograph depicts a grain elevator that had a 7 car spur to service it. Davies doubted if grain traffic ever moved by rail near Wynndel. Two flat cars appeared to have used the platform to overload machinery and vehicles.
Photograph depicts a free tourist attraction on the Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train. The trip of 8 and a half miles from the Woss terminus was operated by Canadian Forest Products Ltd., Englewoood Logging Division.
Photograph depicts a water tank fitted with a pump for fire fighting.
Photograph depicts a Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train.
Photograph depicts a bridge of the Canfor Logging Railway.
Photograph depicts a bridge of the Canfor Logging Railway.
Photograph depicts a Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train.
Photograph depicts a returning Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train.
Photograph depicts a Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train.
Photograph depicts a Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train.
Photograph depicts a Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train.
Photograph depicts a Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train.
The David Davies Railway Collection encompasses all facets of railway history specifically in the province of British Columbia and the Yukon territory. The collection consists of research material accumulated over the course of more than fifty years, and includes monographs, periodicals, articles, clippings, railway timetables, photographs, maps and plans, and excerpts. Material covers public, tourist, and private (industrial) railways, including: CPR, KVR, E&N; CNR, CNoR, GTPR; and PGER, BCR. The collection excludes material regarding streetcar systems and rapid transit, but includes long distance electric interurbans.