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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          CPR car at Haig, BC
          2013.6.36.1.016.19 · Item · [July 1973]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the CPR at Haig, B.C. It is at mile 40.1 from North Bend. It is close to Hope but on the opposite side of the Fraser River. This is a water tank car, formerly a locomotive tender, possibly #41575. It had no dates.

          CPR Chute Lake depot
          2013.6.36.1.024.17 · Item · [24 June 1979]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the CPR depot at Chute Lake, on the Carmi Subdivision. It is located at mile 106.5 and 13.5 miles north of Penticton.

          CPR Chute Lake depot
          2013.6.36.1.024.16 · Item · [24 June 1979]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the CPR depot at Chute Lake, on the Carmi Subdivision. It is located at mile 106.5 and 13.5 miles north of Penticton. The photo shows the passing track and the base of a former water tower is just behind the camera at the left. The rail here is dated 1942.

          CPR Cisco Bridge
          2013.6.36.1.070.02 · Item · [June 1967]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts Cisco Bridge that spanned the Fraser River 36 miles below Lytton in Fraser Canyon. It was believed to be the origininal bridge that was built with under slung girders.

          CPR Cisco Bridge
          2013.6.36.1.070.04 · Item · [June 1967]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts Cisco Bridge that spanned the Fraser River 36 miles below Lytton in Fraser Canyon. A power line in the background was just being erected from the Peace River Dam.

          2013.6.36.1.017.01 · Item · [3 June 1973]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the CPR Clayburn Diamond crossing (with the BC Hydro Railway) at mile 3.9 on the Huntingdon Branch. The view is looking south with the BC Hydro Railway tracks in the middle distance. CP Rail has the priority right of the road. There is a 15 mph speed restriction.

          CPR Cranbrook
          2013.6.36.1.130.06 · Item · Sept. 2000
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts weighing track in Cranbrook. Presumably, locomotives took the track on the left side, while cars used the weigh track on the right side.

          CPR Cranbrook
          2013.6.36.1.130.07 · Item · Sept. 2000
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a brick roundhouse of 5 or 6 stalls that were used for stores and non-locomotive activities.

          CPR crane at Osprey Lake
          2013.6.36.1.022.27 · Item · 3 Aug. 1981
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a CPR crane at Osprey lake on the Kettle Valley Railway line. It is located at mile 38.8 on the Princeton Subdivision. The crane is #414204, manufactured by Browning in Cleveland, Ohio.

          CPR crane at Osprey Lake
          2013.6.36.1.022.28 · Item · 3 Aug. 1981
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a CPR crane at Osprey lake on the Kettle Valley Railway line. It is located at mile 38.8 on the Princeton Subdivision. The crane is #414204, manufactured by the Browning Crane and Shovel Co. in Cleveland, Ohio. It is model NL 300 locomotive crane, with a boom length of 38 to 55 ft. and a lifting capacity with a varying radius from 30 T to 40 T.

          CPR depot at Castlegar
          2013.6.36.1.028.40 · Item · 14 Sept. 1970
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the CPR depot at Castlegar. The left-hand track leads to Trail and the right-hand track to Midway and Penticton. The picture was taken at about 1 pm with the Nelson to Midway way freight train standing at the depot. The caboose was built in 1913. The view is looking west.