Transportation and Utilities

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  • Act of means of transporting from one place to another

  • Act of means of providing water, power, sewage, etc. to communities

  • Facilities and infrastructures (eg. harbours, highways, airports, hydroelectric projects)

  • Vehicles, rolling stock, aircraft, equipment, ships and boats, ferries

  • Accidents (eg. highway crashes, derailments, air crashes, ship wrecks)

  • Rescue services (eg. towing, coast guard)

  • Businesses and corporations (eg. motor associations)

  • Professional organizations and unions

  • SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Business and Commerce; Industries; Military

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          4835 Archival description results for Transportation and Utilities

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          2013.6.36.1.010.41 · Item · Oct. 1965
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a C.N. locomotive at Riverside Park in Kamloops. It is s 2-8-0 locomotive # 2141 and was built in 1912 by the Canadian Locomotive Co. It is 68' long and 10'1" wide, with a light weight of 169, 200 lbs. It was converted to oil in 1948 and last ran from Cowichan Bay to Victoria on July 4, 1958. It was installed in the park in 1961.

          2013.6.36.1.009.24 · Item · Mar. 1966
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the Canadian National Railway (CN) switcher #7218 and caboose on Lulu Island about to cross the New Westminster Highway, travelling northward on a spur. It came southwards as a loaded freight with 3 boxcars for a small spur behind the photo, and 3 empty cement tank cars for the Lafarge Cement Plant on the south bank of Lulu Island, half a miles distant behind the caboose.

          CN Train Yard
          2012.13.1.3.121 · Item · 12 Oct. 1989
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a number of trains in the CNR train yard taken from River Road in Prince George, B.C. Map coordinates 53°54'51.5"N 122°43'29.6"W

          2013.6.36.1.014.34 · Item · [May 1966]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the C.N. tug "Pentowna" at Okanagan Lake in Kelowna. It is undergoing its annual refit. It was built in 1927 as a lake passenger steamer and converted to a tug at a later date. Her plates are in good condition.. The funnel is to be given the CN insignia.

          CNR Albreda
          2013.6.36.1.038.08 · Item · [30 June 1980]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a turning wye located on the left, just beyond a hut in th middle ground. Davies spotted a continuous rail a train and a work train on a spur siding.