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Postcard depicts lower Kicking Horse Canyon near Golden, B.C,

Postcard depicts the Golden-Field Highway as seen from high up on the mountain side from a tunnel on the CPR run in the Kicking Horse Canyon.

File consists of postcards collected by David Davies of the Stoney Creek Bridge in British Columbia.

Postcard depicts Stoney Creek Bridge in the Selkirk Mountains of B.C.

Postcard depicts Stoney Creek Bridge.

Postcard depicts a brace of CPR GP9's with westbound freight crossing Stoney Creek Bridge. First car behind the locomotives was a stock car. CPR gave up all movement of livestock in 1974, so this photograph was taken before that year.

Postcard depicts Stoney Creek Bridge in the Selkirk Mountains of B.C.

Postcard depicts Stoney Creek Bridge.

Postcard depicts the collapse of the bridge in Surprise Creek, BC1929. Showing locomotive 5767. Both crewmen killed. This locomotive was coupled to locomotive 5779 and as pusher engines were returning light to Beavermouth, when approaching, span collapsed. Sister locomotive escaped.

Postcard depicts Stoney Creek Bridge in the Canadian Rockies.

Postcard depicts Stoney Creek Bridge.

Postcard depicts Stoney Creek Bridge.

Postcard depicts "Canadian Pacific's all Stainless Stel Scenic Dome Streamliner-"The Canadian"-in the Canadian Rockies."

Postcard depicts a CPR train en route through the Canadian Rockies, which the postcard deemed to be "The Switzerland of America."

File consists of postcards collected by David Davies of Rogers Pass and Glacier, BC.

Postcard depicts Mt. Bonny near Glacier, BC.

Postcard depicts Macdonald Range, near Glacier B.C.

Postcard depicts Glacier House and Great Glacier House built in 1886 as one of three similar hotels, the other two being Mt. Stephen House in Field, and Fraser Canyon Hotel in North Bend. Business fell off rapidly in 1916 when tracks were relocated into a new tunnel. Buildings were demolished in 1930.

Postcard depicts Glacier House, CPR, and Hermirt Range, Selkirk Mountains.

Postcard depicts Hermit Range and Rogers' Pass, CPR.

Postcard depicts a train oustide a snowshed in Glacier, BC. It was thought the view was looking south with Glacier Hotel in the middle distance at the head of the 180 degree loop. Outside trackage was built alongside sheds in the summit area of Rogers Pass.

Postcard depicts Glacier House and Great Glacier.

Postcara depoiocts Connaught Tunnel in the Canadian Rockies.

Postcard depicts the entrance to the east end of the Connaught Tunnel.

Postcard depicts Illecillewaet Glacier from the Railway. "One of the chief attractions for tourists is the Illecillewaet Glacier, and, while not the largest in the Canadian Rockies, it is the most accessible and in every way representative of these most interesting natural phenomena. A trip across its face leaves a lasting impression on one's memory. The Illecillewaet River takes its rise from the great glacier of the Selkirks."

Postcard depicts "The Loop, as this great pear-shaped arc of trestle was known along with the spectacular station and hotel facilities at Glacier were replaced by the Connaught Tunnel in 1916."

Postcard depicts Albert Canyon.

Postcard depicts "The Loop," CPR Selkirks.

Postcard depicts the summit of the Selkirk Range. Board in the right foreground says "Rogers Pass 1 Mile."

Postcard depicts the crossing of "The Loop."

Postcard depicts "Summit City" in Rogers Pass, built in 1886 and existed only for the consctruction of the CPR.

Postcard depicts engine #154 on Mountain Creek Bridge in 1885. Bridge-164 ft, in height, 1086 ft. in length.

Postcard depicts the Rogers Pass CPR station. A snowslide wiped out the station on January 9, 1899.

Postcard depicts the CPR station at Albert Canyon, BC, circa 1900.

Postcard depicts a train entering the Connaught Tunnel and Ross Peak.

Postcard depicts the east portal of the Connaught Tunnel.

Postcard depicts the east portal of the Connaught Tunnel and Mount Macdonald.

Postcard depicts the east portal of the Connaught Tunnel.

Postcard depicts Glacier Station.

Postcard depicts Illecillewaet Valley and Loop near Glacier, BC

Postcard possibly taken in Glacier, BC

Postcard depicts Illecillewaet Valley. Taken adjacent to snowsheds and the second crossing of the Illecillewaet River. It had the appearance of being the location for a safety switch and spur to divert a runaway train that had come down the "Loop" from Glacier Station.

Postcard depicts Illecillewaet Valley. Circa 1914-16. New grade being built for use with Connaught Tunnel grade reductions at Rogers Pass. Original right-of-way still in use.

Postcard depicts Illecillewaet Valley and Loop from Observation Point, Glacier B.C., on the CPR line.

Postcard depicts "one of Canadian Pacific's powerful 2-10-4 Selkirk locomotives grab[bing] hold of a 2800 Hudson to take a passenger run through the Canadian Rockies."

Postcard depicts a snow plow. "Completion of the Connaught Tunnel in 1916 solved the worst of the severe weather problems faced by the CPR in Rogers Pass, where snowfalls average 50 feet. Based at Revelstokem a locomotive-pushed wedge plow and a Jordan spreader equipped with air-operated wings and retractable nose plates skim over the rails near Fraine, BC"

Postcard depicts Illecillewaet Valley from Lookout Point on Mt. Abbott, near Glacier B.C.

Postcard depicts "The Four Tracks."

Postcard depicts Imperial Limited on the Great Loop in the Selkirks, near Glacier, BC

Postcard depicts "The Loop," Glacier, BC