Photograph depicts a southbound Budd car on Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway (CPR) track.
Ladysmith, BC
37 Archival description results for Ladysmith, BC
Photograph depicts ballast car #175 built by Western Wheeled Scraper Company, Aurora, Illinois.
Photograph depicts a Comox Logging and Railway Company grade about a mile north of the diamond crossing. Track was used once daily for a train of about 20 cars. The grade was first built as a private railway between the Extension Mine and Ladysmith circa 1900-1925, then the section between Ladysmith and Nanaimo River was converted to a logging railway in about 1935-1940 and was extended up Nanaimo River Creek.
Photograph depicts a small yard switcher used to switch cars in and out of repair shops. It was in use when the photograph was taken.
Photograph taken half of a mile north of the diamond crossing. Visible is a distant signal protecting the crossing. Davies noted that it had not been used for many years.
Photograph depicts the last logs being removed from a 20 car log train which had just arrived from Nanaimo Lakes. Each car held 2 bundles, each of about 20 logs. These in turn were assembled into a large boom and then were towed to the mainland. Cars were emptied by a mechanical prodder and mounted on an old shay frame.
Photograph depicts the division of Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd in Ladysmith.
Photograph depicts the division of Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd in Ladysmith. Visible is a fire car with a former locomotive headlight attached to it.
Photograph depicts a homemade snow plough that had a short wheel base between the trucks. The design of its main frame suggets that it might have been a crane before conversion to its present use.
Photograph depicts a former steam locomotive shed.
Photograph depicts a view of the Ladysmith yard, looking north, about 300 yards east of the city centre.
Photograph depicts a daily log train from Nanaimo Lakes. About 20 cars were being unloaded at a rather fast rate of 30-60 seconds per car using a mechanical prodder mounted on the frames of an old shay locomotive.
Photograph depicts a deisel switcher #107.
Photograph depicts a grand view of the Ladysmith yards. There had been no steam operations on this line for about 2 years.
Photograph depicts the lower part of the Ladysmith yard, adjacent to a log pond. A semaphore signal was activated by the tide and indicated to the engineer of the log train the suitable depth for offloading logs from the cars.
Photograph depicts the outside of the Comox Logging head office in Ladysmith.
Photograph depicts a log car repair shop. Visible is one car being repaired as well as another awaiting attention on a switch spur on the right.
Photograph taken about half a mile north of the diamond crossing, looking southeast at the point where the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway closely follows the Comox Railway for about 300 yards. The Comox Railway used one every week for log trains.
Photograph depicts sidings for empty log cars about a quarter of a mile south of the diamond crossing. Image captured looking south, towards the Ladysmith yards. The running line is visible on the right side of the photograph and was used week by a daily log train, consisting of a deisel locomotive and 20 cars.
Photograph depicts deisel switcher #108.
Photograph depicts a mobile crane used to offload log trains into a pond.
Photograph depicts a snow plough in the Ladysmith yards.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of artifacts of the Comox Logging Railway in Ladysmith, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts a homemade (?) device used to scour boiler tubs of scale. Taken at the former site of the Comox Logging Railway's yard and maintenance facilities.
Photograph depicts a part of the former ard of the Comox Logging Railway. It was now a little known park. Locomotive #11, Baldwin, also visible.
Photograph depicts former yard of the Comox Logging Railway. Locomotive shed in background. Locomotive #11, Baldwin, also visible.
Photograph depicts former yard and freight stock of the Comox Logging Railway.
Photograph depicts former Comox Logging locomotive #11.
Photograph depicts the former Comox Logging Railway headquarters.
Photo captures a northbound train that is just leaving the Ladysmith depot which is about 50 yards behind the camera at around 10:00 a.m.
Photograph taken at the Ladysmith depot on mile 58.4. A northbound train is just leaving at about 10:00 a.m.
Photograph taken at the Ladysmith depot on mile 58.4. Image captures a northbound daily train at about 10:00 a.m. Three people alighted and one has boarded.
Photograph depicts the Ladysmith depot on mile 58.4. Image captured looking north.
Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway depot in Ladysmith. Track visible. Looking southward.
Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway station in Ladysmith.
Photograph depicts the tombstone of John Wargo, born January 2, 1868, died October 5, 1909. Killed in an explosion at Extension Coal Mines. At least another 5 men were killed in the same incident and buried in the Ladysmith Cemetary.
Photograph taken at the Ladysmith Cemetary. The column reads "Ici repose Oscar Masset mort accidentellement a Extension le 24 mars 1909 a l'age de 53 ans, native de Bellgique." Davies noted that it seemed a good proportion of the local coal miners were Belgian, Scottish, Welsh, and Central European based on the tombstones.