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Photograph depicts a CPR ship named "Princess Elaine" at the pier opposite the CPR station in Vancouver. The ship was being stripped of its engines and was subsequently towed to Blaine, WA.

Photograph depicts a CPR ship named "Princess Elaine" at the pier opposite the CPR station in Vancouver. The ship was being stripped of its engines and was subsequently towed to Blaine, WA.

Photograph depicts the Orient Line "S.S. Oronsay" leaving Vancouver Harbour.

Photograph depicts a steam tugboat named "Master" owned by the World Ship Society (Vancouver Chapter). Photograph taken during Carnival and Regatta week in Vancouver.

Photograph depicts a small tugboat rescuing a motor cruiser that had been swept downstream in the Annacis Channel against a bridge, about 1.5 miles southwest of the Patullo Bridge, New Westminster.

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 depicts a logger's sports competition held in Squamish.

Photograph depicts a harbour seal diving into the water after sunning on a boom log. The bow of Davies' sailboat is in the foreground.

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 metal C.P.R. caboose at Osoyoos, B.C.

Photograph depicts a C.P.R. train switching at Osoyoos, B.C.

Photograph depicts a steam donkey beside a mill pond of a shingle mill at Sappho or Tyee, on the Olympic Peninsula. It is steam fed from the main plant boiler.

Photograph depicts a water crane on the southwest side of the Pacific Great Eastern station at Pemberton.

Photograph depicts rail cars in Vancouver, B.C.

Photograph depicts a locomotive near Cowichan Bay, B.C.

Photograph depicts a locomotive near Cowichan Bay, B.C.

Plan depicts Granville Island industrial sites in False Creek, Vancouver. Shows revised trackage from 1955 annotated in colour by Davies.

Postcard depicts the Great Divide between Alberta and British Columbia, along the CPR line.

Postcard depicts the Canadian Pacific Railway line where the Great Divide between BC and Alberta.

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.

Postcard taken along the CPR line, at a camp in Yoho Valley.