Photograph depicts a compressed air operated locomotive frame and H.K. Porter boiler, built in 1912. It was believed that the locomotive frame came from the Canmore coal mines.
Savona, BC
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Photograph depicts a narrow gauge contractor's locomotive boiler owned by Mr. Shane Sherman of Lake Shore Road, Savona. It was built by H.K. Porter as boiler #1451 B on August 18, 1912.
Photograph taken at the CNR Savona depot. Image captured looking eastward (towards Kamloops).
Photograph depicts a CN Fairmont speeder on a spur/siding. Looking east towards Kamloops Lake.
Photograph depicts a collision that occurred at the west switch of the crossing in Savona. At some point, freight was derailed by huge pipes that rolled on the track in November 1991.
Photograph depicts a collision between two freights (visible is the head of one and the tail of the other) at this switch. The signal was knocked down, but a replacement was erected. It was being tested while the photograph was being taken. Switch blade movements were remotely controlled.
Photograph depicts the spur to the used mine machinery depot of the Nelson Machinery Company Ltd. The rail found in the middle distance was property of this company, not the CPR.
File consists of documentary photographs taken by David Davies of two CN derailments in Savona, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts the cut where gas pipes rolled in and derailed westbound freight.
File consists of records created and accumulated by Gary Runka over the course of his consultancy work for Public Works Canada for the "Assessment of Alleged Soil Degradation on Skeetchestn Indian Reserve #1" project in Deadman's Creek. This file was numbered as G.G. Runka Land Sense Ltd. client file #230; that client number may be seen referenced elsewhere in the G. Gary Runka fonds. The Land Sense Ltd. client files generally include records such as correspondence, contracts, invoices, project reports, publications, ephemera, memoranda, maps or map excerpts, legal documents, meeting materials, clippings, and handwritten notes.
Maps include:
- Reproduction of B.C. Land Surveyors, "Plan and Field Notes of Survey of Parcel C in Deadman's Creek Indian Reserve Township 21, Range 22, West of the 6th Meridian, Province of British Columbia, Kamloops District", 1966.
- Canada Land Survey, "Reference Plan of Deadman's Creek Indian Reserve, Kamloops District, Province of British Columbia", 1969.
Photograph depicts a compressed air operated locomotive frame that had unequal sized cylinders (high and low pressure) and was believed to have come from the Canmore coal mines.
Photograph depicts a compressed air locomotive frame owned by Mr. Shane Sherman. It was believed to have come from the Canmore coal mines.
Photograph depicts the details of a mine electric locomotive.
Photograph depicts a mining equipment depot of the Nelson Machinery Company in Savona.
Photograph depicts a consignment of refurbished ore cars that were for a client in Saskatchewan. They were made by Wabi Iron Works.
Photograph depicts a mining equipment depot of the Nelson Machinery Company in Savona.
Photograph depicts the depot of the company of second-hand mine machinery, the Nelson Machinery Company.
Photograph depicts a mining equipment depot of the Nelson Machinery Company in Savona.
Photograph depicts tubs owned by Nelso Machinery Company Ltd. that were on display for re-sale.
Photograph depicts an old mine electric locomotive that was on display, not for sale.
Photograph depicts a mining equipment depot of the Nelson Machinery Company in Savona.
Photograph depicts a mine car body awaiting a buyer.
Photograph depicts a mining equipment depot of the Nelson Machinery Company in Savona.
Photograph depicts a mining equipment depot of the Nelson Machinery Company in Savona.
Photograph depicts a mining equipment depot of the Nelson Machinery Company 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 the first train to move over the remade track after a derailment in Savona.
Photograph depicts a train passing over restored track after a derailment in Savona.
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 wrecked sulphur cars parked in a pipe yard.
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 Nelson Machinery yard in Savona.
Photograph depicts the Nelson Machinery yard in Savona.
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.