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Photograph depicts a wooden-sided caboose, CPR #43708, arch bar trucks. It was built in September 1943 and may have been part of a wreck train.

Photograph depicts CPR caboose #400572 at Cranbrook. It is an older style caboose with older style lettering.

Photograph depicts CPR service flanger #400572 at Cranbrook. It was built in 1930.

Photograph depicts the view of the CPR yard in Cranbrook, looking west from the depot.

Photograph depicts two parked CPR snow plows.

Photograph depicts a train departing for the Crow's Nest Pass.

Photograph depicts a close up of weigh track in Cranbrook.

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 an air operated crane mounted to a rail sledge and flangeless wheels, on flat car #308832. It was built in June 1911.

Photograph depicts a CNR crane trolley/car that had shackles on all four corners latched onto its rails to prevent overbalancing.

Photograph depicts the CPR 9 miles east of Cranbrook, on the Nelson Subdivision. The timetable says a siding of 3384 ft. can hold 61 cars, but it cannot be found. The view is looking east.

Photograph depicts a snow plow in Cranbrook.

Photograph depicts CPR snowplow #400885 at Cranbrook. The snowplow was built in Mar. 1917.

Photograph depicts CPR wreck crane #414475 and reach car # 402093. The crane has a 200 ton capacity and was manufactured in 1929 by the Industrial Brownhoist Corp. in Cleveland, Ohio. It's a type 2, steam crane #5162. Freestanding it is 30ft. The radius equals a 17 ton lift and outrigged at 17ft , 200 ton lift. Nelson lies 138 miles to the west.

Photograph depicts a water tank that was now part of the Cranbrook Railway Museum.

Photograph depicts locomotive cars waiting for stage two of the Cranbrook Railway Museum's development of artifacts.

Photograph depicts a "Feldkanone," dated 1917. It is an adaptation of the German 77 mm field gun, a stationed short range gun of the First World War.

Photograph depicts a 12 wheeler passenger car, CPR #411641, used as car man's sleeper. Behind it is wash/shower car #412718. It is followed by work diner car #411369, which is also a 12 wheeler with an arch bar truck. They are used for work and wreck train service.

Photograph depicts a roundhouse with 16 bays at Cranbrook. Currently 7 were fitted with rails, of which 5 bays are in use. Four of these bays were holding snowplows and 2 were clearly not used. Three of the sixteen bays appear to never have been fitted with track.

Photograph depicts a surviving but disused water tower at Cranbrook. Cranbrook is located at mile 0 on the CPR line of the Nelson Subdivision.