File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the CNR Okanagan branch line through Vernon and Kelowna, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts siding at the Kalamalka flag stop.
Photograph taken north of Oyama. A private speeder is found in the middle distance.
Photograph depicts trackage on the outskirts of Kelowna, near the CN yards.
Photograph depicts lettering on several ballast cars which were headed by a tracktor and tailed by a caboose.
Photograph taken looking west towards a lake. Davies notes that the reason for this visible particular configuration is that the CNR and the CPR yards used to be west of Ellis. At the time the photograph was taken, such land was needed for better development, e.g. hotels, high rise residences, sports area, etc.
Photograph depicts disused CN track that had been promised to Kamloops Heritage Railway.
Photograph depicts the first train to move over the remade track after a derailment in Savona.
Photograph depicts a pipe yard of West Coast Gas Transmission. Two large pipes had gotten away and rolled onto the railway.
Photograph depicts wrecked sulphur cars parked in a pipe yard.
Photograph depicts the site of two derailment mishaps in 1991 and 1995. In November 1991, there was (and still is) a pipe yard of West Coast Gad Transmission Ltd. located above the track. Two huge pipes got away and rolled down the cut into the path of oncoming train. A concrete block wall was erected to stop this. Also, all pipes were stored at 90 degrees to the rail track.
Photograph depicts westbound freight entering the eastern portal of CPR Mount Macdonlad Tunnel.
Photograph depicts the CPR depot in Salmon Arm.
Photograph depicts trackage near the CPR depot in Salmon Arm.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the CPR President's Train in Nelson, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts close up of the car named "Mount Stephen," built in 1926. It was one of the cars that comprised the President's train that stayed in Nelson for the first weekend of August, 1997 during the city's centennial celebrations.
Photograph depicts the CPR President's train.
Photograph depicts a model of a 2 man track car presented to Giovanni Marra in 1973 upon his retirement as a CPR Kamloops road master. Model made by L.G. Snowden (modeller and then locomotive engineer for CPR).
Photograph depicts a speeder meet while on a B.C. run from Armstrong to Campbell Creek Junction and back again.
Photograph depicts a speeder meet of about 25 vehicles. They were leaving the overpass at Campbell Creek Junction for return back to Armstrong.
Photograph depicts a speeder meet at the Campbell Creek Junction. All speeders, consisting of 25, had just turned around and were ready to go south to Armstrong.
Photograph depicts a lunch stop at Oyama for the speeder meet. These speeders were Fairmont MT 19.
Photograph depicts a shay rounding around its train at the temporary south terminus at Canyon View Road Crossing, 200 yards from Trout Creek Bridge.
Photograph depicts a shay rounding around its train at the temporary south terminus at Canyon View Road Crossing, 200 yards from Trout Creek Bridge.
Photograph taken from a grade crossing that went into the Rodeo Grounds in Summerland. Locomotive belonged to the Kettle Valley Railway Heritage Society.
Photograph depicts a train at the KVR Museum in Summerland.
Photograph depicts a train and two locomotive cars at the KVR Museum in Summerland.
Photograph depicts a train at the KVR Museum in Summerland.
Photograph depicts a train at the KVR Museum in Summerland.
Photograph taken in the KVR yard area where there was a ballon in the place of a turning wye.
Photograph depicts details of a switch stand.
Photograph taken looking west towards the depot in Princeton on mile 70.5.
Photograph depicts an open space where former yards of the KVR were located. Visible is a 2 stall engine shed, a turning ballon (in place of a wye), and the connection with the 14 long Copper Mountain Bracnch which conveyed copper concentrate and closed in 1957. Just out of view, on the right, was the Princeton Tunnel built by the GNR in 1910.
Photograph depicts a train called the "Cariboo Prospector." It was supposed to arrive to the station earlier, but a freight locomotive failed north of Williams Lake and blocked the line.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of the Nelson Machinery yard in Savona, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts the Nelson Machinery yard in Savona.
Photograph depicts the Nelson Machinery yard in Savona.
Photograph depicts the Nelson Machinery yard in Savona.
Photograph depicts the disused CPR Glacier station.
Photograph depicts the east side of the CPR yard in Cranbrook. The depot is visible on the right.
Photograph depicts weighing track in Cranbrook. Presumably, locomotives took the track on the left side, while cars used the weigh track on the right side.
Photograph depicts a brick roundhouse of 5 or 6 stalls that were used for stores and non-locomotive activities.
Photograph depicts a locomotive built by America Locomotive Co. in 1920 for revenue service in Oregan. Purchased in 1948 for logging work. Canfor purchased it in 1953 and used it till 1966. It was kept servicable until 1976, then was displayed at Woss. In 1988, it was restored in Nimpkish to working order.
Photograph depicts a bridge of the Canfor Logging Railway.
Phoo depicts the arrival at a passenger service turn-around.
Photograph depicts a Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train.
Photograph depicts a Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train.
Photograph depicts a locomotive being detached from a Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train.
Photograph depicts a Canfor Logging Railway public passenger train.
Photograph depicts ballast cars on the Canfor Logging Railway.