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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          PGE Seton Portage
          2013.6.36.1.046.13 · Item · Aug. 1969
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a refrigerator car that was built in 1956. Davies notes that it was unusual, but not rare to see an old type of logo on the revenue cars. The car was used to transport weekly groceries on way freight northwards out of Vancouver to places such as Seton Portage with one store in the village.

          PGE Seton Portage
          2013.6.36.1.046.20 · Item · [29 July 1969]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts northbound freight passing Buntain's Flag Station. The lead locomotive was derailed a week later 2 mile east of the loaction at the east end of the Seton Portage passing loop. The locomotive was built by Montreal Locomotive works and have been in service on the Pacific Great Eastern for less than 3 months.

          PGE Seton Portage
          2013.6.36.1.046.04 · Item · 7 Aug. 1969
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a steel-lined wreck train car that was used by work crews and consisted of a dining area, kitchen, sleeping quarters, and bathroom.

          PGE Seton Portage
          2013.6.36.1.046.09 · Item · Aug. 1969
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the Pacific Great Eastern line beside the Seton River which connects Anderson Lake and Seton Lake. The bridge to the left take the road to D'Arcy and Pemberton.

          PGE Red Rock
          2013.6.36.1.045.42 · Item · [July 1966]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken at Red Rock which is 18 miles south of Prince George. Image depicts a steam crane marked #4 and owned by United Rentals Ltd., Nanaimo, forming part of a pile driving work train.

          PGE Red Rock
          2013.6.36.1.045.41 · Item · [July 1966]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken at Red Rock which is 18 miles south of Prince George. Image displays part of a pile driving work train owned by United Rentals Ltd. of Nanaimo. A tender and a steam crane #4 for pile driving are also visible.

          2020.08.25 · Item · [between 1913 and 1923]
          Part of Pacific Great Eastern Railway Region Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts a Pacific Great Eastern Railway tunnel along Anderson Lake. The current railway mileage for the location is 125.6 (historical mileage point would have differed). The location is 3.7 miles north of D'Arcy, near the southern end of Anderson Lake. This photograph was likely taken from vantage point of the summer-only Highline Road.

          PGE Quesnel
          2013.6.36.1.045.30 · Item · 1966
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph location is unknown, but Davies stated it to be possibly somewhere north of Quesnel. A bridge is visible.

          PGE Quesnel
          2013.6.36.1.045.39 · Item · [July 1966]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a down freight of 75 cars passing under the Quesnel to Barkerville road about 4 miles out of Quesnel.

          PGE Pavilion
          2013.6.36.1.045.26 · Item · [22 May 1972]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken loooking southwards, down the Fraser Canyon, between Pavilion and Lillooet. Visible is a northbound Budd car going slowly up a steep grade.

          PGE Lillooet
          2013.6.36.1.045.54 · Item · Aug. 1969
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts an auxillary car with a powered winch found at the Pacific Great Eastern yards in Lillooet. Inside the roundhouse in the background was a boiler room that contained a locomotive boiler in working order.

          PGE Kelly Lake
          2013.6.36.1.045.25 · Item · [22 May 1972]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the remains of Pacific Great Eastern trackage beside a primitive small grain elevator laeding off at the end of the "Y" at Kelly Lake. It was probably not in use for the past 20 or 30 years, as of 1972.

          PGE Kelly Lake
          2013.6.36.1.045.58 · Item · [21 May 1972]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts gondola cars sitting on a turning Y, unloaded, and covered with plastic. They were awaiting switching to an ore mine loading loop about 5 miles up the line.

          PGE Jordans
          2013.6.36.1.045.31 · Item · Sept. 1966
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts an inspection speeder passing Jordans which was near the Whistler Mountain ski lift.

          2020.08.43 · Item · [between 1913 and 1923]
          Part of Pacific Great Eastern Railway Region Photograph Collection

          Photograph depicts an early model Jordan Spreader used in the construction of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway. A railway worker is standing on the spreader. The stencil on equipment states "P.G.W.R.R.". The flora suggests that this photograph may have been taken somewhere in the Lillooet/Clinton area.

          PGE Chasm
          2013.6.36.1.045.10 · Item · [22 May 1972]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a section house, track motor shed, and a disused bunk house and supplies shed which are property of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway.

          PGE Australian
          2013.6.36.1.045.46 · Item · [3 July 1966]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a trestle near Australian, BC on mile 364. Visible is a northbound freight of 2 locomotives and about 60 cars.

          Penny Station
          2012.13.2.15.21 · File · 1980, 2010
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          File consists of notes and reproductions relating to the Penny station. Also includes photographs depicting the Penny train station (1980?).