Photograph depicts a CPR ship named "Princess Louise" awaiting gutting at Lynn Terminals, North Vancouver.

Photograph depicts a CPR ship named "Princess Louise" awaiting gutting at Lynn Terminals, North Vancouver.

Photograph depicts a bridge of a CPR ship named "Princess Louise" awaiting gutting at Lynn Terminals, North Vancouver.

Photograph depicts a CPR ship named "Princess Louise" with CNR "Canadian Prince" at Lynn Terminals, North Vancouver.

Photograph depicts the CPR "Princess Marguerite" in Victoria Harbour.

Photograph depicts the CPR "Princess Marguerite" in Victoria Harbour.

Photograph depicts the CPR "Princess Marguerite" in Victoria Harbour.

Photograph taken near Princeton. Looking west, just before dropping into a big loop.

Photograph depicts the CPR Princeton depot. The view is looking east.

Photograph taken east of the CPR depot in Princeton.

Photograph taken looking downgrade at CPR track, east of Princeton.

Photograph depicts one of the CPR loop on the 'big loops' near Princeton, on KVR trackage.

Photograph depicts a CPR spur line (located on the right), running off from the 'main line' that went from Princeton to Penticton. The spur led to a sawmill.

Photograph depicts a barge loading slip that was used tri-weekly for Kootenay Lake freight from Riondal, Kaslo, and Lardeau. It was formerly part of the southern B.C. route of the CPR where all traffic had to be barged from Proctor to Sirdor-Kootenay Landing.

Photograph depicts barge #6 after being loaded with 2 pole cars (CP 301595/945, built in 1954 and 1955) and refrigerators (CP 286 442) holding white pine destined for the USA. All "ex." mills at Nakusp. Time: 7:00 p.m. on a Thursday and it is raining. Stern of barge is the nearest to the camera. Tracks diverge to allow captains mounting at the center of the Stern.

Photograph depicts a barge slip on Slocan Lake. This is the northern terminal of lake service. The railway runs north from the lake to Nakusp which is approximately 27 miles. Looking north. Rails in this area weigh 80-85 Ibs. Dated 1901-1911, Algoma, Lorain.

Photograph depicts a C.P.R. rail car slip at Slocan City, on the south end of Slocan Lake, on the line between Slocan and South Slocan. The view is looking north.

Photograph depicts a CPR rail ferry slip in downtown Vancouver.

Photograph depicts the C.P.R. rail ferry transfer #4, registered at Victoria. It is tied to the western side of C.P.R. Pier A! at Vancouver. It holds four tracks and is not self-propelled.

Photograph depicts the CPR rail line at Brookmere, 30 miles south of Merritt. The view is looking north, taken with back to a three stall engine roundhouse, which had been crudely dismantled. A boarded up depot lies about 150 yards to the left of the photo. Brookmere was once a thriving railway town, accessible only by rail. Some of the rail noted was Algoma stall, 85 lbs., and dated to 1910 and 1913.

Photograph depicts the CPR rail line at Brookmere, 30 miles south of Merritt. It shows a general view of the yard. The corner of the depot can be seen at the extreme right edge. Beyond the turntable lies the site of a demolished 3 stall engine house. Most of the yard has been abandoned, with on attempt to clean up the trackage. The photo look south.

Photograph depicts the CPR line at Brookmere, 30 miles south of Merritt. It is a general view of the abandoned yards. The yards were built on a small amount of flat land available right at the summit. A 1956 schedule shows it was quite a busy place; the eastbound passenger train passed through at 0250 hrs. and the westbound at 0425 hrs., via Hope not Merritt. The view is looking north.

Photograph depicts the CPR line at Brookmere, 30 miles south of Merritt (now mile 108.7 on the Princeton Subdivision). Summit point is at 3200 ft. between Spences Bridge, Hope, and Princeton. The Kettle Valley Railway carved out a railway town in the wilderness in 1914/1915 to hold about 300 people. The men were train crews and track a gangs, particularly for the troublesome Coquihalla route. The photo includes the boarded up depot and the view is looking north.

Photograph depicts the CPR line at about mile 50.5 on the Merritt Subdivision. It is south of Glenwalker and south of Merritt. It carries three freights per week. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday is northbound, and Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday is southbound.

Photograph depicts the CPR line at mile 49.2 on the Merritt Substation. This is the site of the Glenwalker depot. The view is looking north.

Photograph depicts the CPR line at about mile 50.5 from Spences Bridge, on the Merritt Subdivision. This point is south of Glenwalker and carries 3 freights per week. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday is northbound, and Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday is southbound. The view is looking north.

Photograph depicts a CPR tug named the "Okanagan" tied to a rail barge. Located on Okanagan Lake.

Photograph depicts a new CPR rail terminal ramp that was being built on the site of the former Pier A, Vancouver Harbour.

Photograph depicts a new CPR rail terminal ramp that was being built on the site of the former Pier A, Vancouver Harbour.

Photograph depicts the CPR rail line with an overhead road bridge at Hope. The Kettle Valley Railway track leads to the CPR mainline.

Photograph depicts the outer western limits of the CPR yard at Haney. The car is loaded with poles about 15 to 20 ft. log, 2 sets per car, which had been loaded somewhere else in BC within the previous week.

Photograph depicts a loading slip for a CPR car barge for lead and zinc from the Cominco Bluebell mine. Bluebell is the oldest semi-continously worked mine in B.C., dating back to the Native and Hudson Bay Co. musket ball days. 3 barge loads were removed per week.

Photograph depicts a CPR road and rail bridge at Mission City from the south bank looking towards the city.

Photograph depicts CPR robot control car #5 at Revelstoke. Behind is a machine shop, in which the present CPR president, Mr. J. Crump, served his apprenticeship as a machinist.

Photograph depicts the beginning of the 27 mile branch to Nakusp. Visible is an 8-10 car transfer barge #6 and a tug named "Iris G."

Photograph depicts barge #6 coupled to a rail barge slip at the northern end of Slocan Lake. A locomotive had already switched 3 cars onto the barge. It included 2 pole cars and a refrigerator box holding lumber.

Photograph depicts a barge slop on Slocan Lake. Displayed are the details of rail joints that were moored between, while the floating the and trackage were on dry ground.

Photograph depicts a barge slop on Slocan Lake. Visible is transfer barge #6 and a tug "Iris G" found alongside it. The lake operation was contracted out in 1956.

Photograph depicts the CPR roundhouse and turntable at the False Creek yards in Vancouver. The locomotive #1410 is in clean external condition.

Photograph depicts a CPR roundhouse at the False Creek yards in Vancouver. The tender of stored locomotive #2860 is protruding, as the house cannot taken the length of this locomotive. Locomotive #2860 is a 4-6-4 Royal Hudson, built in 1940 at the Montreal Locomotive Works. It is now owned by Mr. J. Hussey of West Vancouver.

Photograph depicts the C.P.R. rules instruction car at the False Creek yards in Vancouver, B.C.

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.

Photograph depicts the C.P.R. Savona Depot looking east.