Photograph depicts parked construction train equipment that included an old tank car that used to hold diesel fuel.
Photograph depicts the Vancouver to Armstrong section of the CN Okanagan Branch. Taken at O'Keefe, a former station site. Visible is a rail car deliverer.
Photograph depicts a spur to cattle market. A Kamloops switcher of the Kelowna Pacific Railway, painted in blue, sat in the background in its normal parking position.
Photograph depicts a part of a group of 4 scaling testing cars found in the Kamloops CPR yard.
Photograph depicts 2 cars of the group of 4 car 'Scale Test Unit" at the CPR Kamloops yards.
Photograph depicts a new CN overpass in Campbell Creek. Looking at new eastbound lane of the Trans Canada Highway. It was all paid for by the Provincial Department of Highways in order to convert the 2 lanes into 4 in order to improve visibility and stretch the highway.
Photograph depicts a new bridge on the CNR Okanagan Branch. The old steel bridge on the right had been dismantled.
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 details of a CN derailment that occurred in Kamloops.
Photograph depicts a spur that terminated close to Red Bridge on the north side of Thompson River. This end section of 200 yards had not been in use for at least 15 years. For 2-3 months near the date the photograph was taken, it was used to load scrap metal.
Photograph depicts a former boiler house and machine shop built in 1929. Located at the CNR Kamloops Junction.
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 turntable located at the CN Junction in Kamloops.
Photograph depicts a crane that had been renovated in 1993 after an accident that occurred up north Thompson. A huge rock tumbled down a creekl and overturned the crane. Taken at the Kamloops Junction.
Photograph taken at the Paulson Highway Bridge. KVR track visible on a former Boundary Subdivision between Castlgar and Grand Forks.
Photograph taken at the Kettle River Bridge on the former Boundary Subdivision about 12 miles due east of Grand Forks. Visible is a deck truss and dock plate girder spans that were believed to have originally a covered bridge.
Photograph depicts a caboose that was formerly part of KVR and was on its way to Grand Forks. It now only went 3 miles to the Canadian Cellulose pulp mill in Kraft.
Photograph taken in Grand Forks. Between 1900 and 1919, the Granby copper smelter operated on the northern outskirts of the city. Ore was brought to it by CPR and GN lines. Originally had wood coverd deck trusses, but they were later upgraded to steel. All was removed in the 1920's.
Photograph depicts a road widening that exposed a concrete rail over/road under a bridge that was originally part of an embankment. Portals were dated 1912 (this side) and 1913 (other side). It was believed that the gap was originally spanned by a wood trestle and then upgraded for an opening of the KVR to the west.
Photograph depicts a short tunnel through embankment of the former KVR. It was now exposed.
Photograph depicts the CPR Nelson Subdivision in Harrop.
Photograph depicts the Rocky Mountaineer Rail Tours yard. Main line track is found on the left and was still used by CN for Okanagan freights and other miscellaneous trafffic.
Photograph depicts a caboose used as a mobile "Maintenance of Way" office. It was a transfer yard caboose built in Montreal in 1977-8. Made into a series of which all except two had been put to other uses since 1991-2.
Photograph depicts a CPR caboose in the Revelstoke rail yard.
Photograph depicts way freight in use after the removal of cabooses on the main lines in January and February, 1990.
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.
Photograph depicts chimney details of a CNR caboose on the Clearwater Subdivision.
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.
Photograph depicts the arrival of an eastbound empty grain train, carrying 103 cars, at the Kamloops Junction in Blue River.
Photograph depicts the end part of an idle car nearest to a crane boom.
Photograph depicts the details of 3 axle trucks and car steps.
Photograph depicts a spare crane and an idler car.
Photograph depicts a spare crane and an idler car. Visible are the details of the rear end of the idle car.
Photograph depicts a hi-rail crane that was located in the Cn Junction yards, Kamloops.
Photograph depicts a CN car carrying fuel oil and wood.
Photograph depicts CN car #54252 carrying locomotive utility wheels.
Photograph depicts CN car #59121.
Photograph depicts CN Kamloops Auxiliary cars.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the CPR around Kamloops, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts the CPR depot and a westbiund container freight standing in the yard. Two cabooses for local way-freight and a switcher were located on the rear spur.
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.
Photograph depicts a Sperry Rail testing car in the CPR yard in downtown Kamloops. These cars must have been between 60 and 70 years old, but they were kept in excellent condition. Car #127 was built in 1926 and modernized in 1989.
Photograph depicts a wool sour and a few garbage cars marked "Branch Line Rehabilitation."
Photograph depicts a ballast car filled with gravel, not track ballast.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Rocky Mountaineer in downtown Kamloops, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts the Rocky Mountaineer in downtown Kamloops. Locomotive #7488.