Photograph taken on mile 10.5 (from Parksville). Images location is at the entrance to the Little Qualicum Falls government camp site. Looking eastward. There are 30 car freight at about 11:00 a.m. heading for Alberni. Two locomotives are visible.
Parksville, BC
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Photograph taken on mile 10.5 (from Parksville). At the entrace to Little Qualicum Falls government camp site. Image captured looking westward. Visible is an Alberni bound freight of about 30 cars that had just passed.
Photograph taken at the Parksville junction (former) depot. Visible are some 25 cars departing for Alberni. The track on the left leads to Courtenay and was closed to all traffic on 30 June 1975.
Photograph depicts the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway branch line in Parksville. Highway crossing and station were behind the camera.
Photograph depicts Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway trackage in Parksville. Looking north beyond the junction with the Alberni branch line. The spur on the left seemed to be used, but the siding on the right did not.
Photograph depicts freight pullling out of Parksville, headed for Alberni, 300 yards north of the depot.
Photograph taken at the Parksville depot. Image captures a speeder departing for Alberni, or at some point on that branch. In 1975, it was on the main line as a result of the closure of the main line to Courtenay issued on 30 June 1975.
Photograph depicts Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway trackage in Parksville. Image captures switch-stand details.
Photograph taken in Parksville on Vancouver Island. Between the two utility poles in the photograph lies the northbound Courtenay main line. It has been closed since 30 June 1975. The Parksville Alberni highway is behind the camera.