Transportation and Utilities

Elements area

Taxonomy

Code

Scope note(s)

  • 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

Source note(s)

  • MemoryBC Subject Groups

Display note(s)

    Hierarchical terms

    Transportation and Utilities

      Equivalent terms

      Transportation and Utilities

        Associated terms

        Transportation and Utilities

          290 Archival description results for Transportation and Utilities

          290 results directly related Exclude narrower terms
          Pedestrian overpass
          2013.6.36.1.104.01 · Item · [13 June 1993]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a pedestrian overpass, with rail below, leading to the Riverside Park and Coliseum. CPR container freight was moving westwards.

          CPR line, downtown Kamloops
          2013.6.36.1.104.02 · Item · [13 June 1993]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the CPR depot and a westbiund container freight standing in the yard. Two cabooses for local way-freight and a switcher were located on the rear spur.

          CPR caboose
          2013.6.36.1.104.03 · Item · Sept. 1991
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a CPR caboose sitting in a gondola in the Kamloops yard after being rammed in a switching accident. Another caboose is visible. Both cabooses were still used for local freights, ballast trains, etc.

          CPR caboose
          2013.6.36.1.104.04 · Item · Sept. 1991
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a damaged caboose body sitting in a gondola car. Damaged as a result of an accident in the Kamloops yard, where the photograph was taken.

          CPR caboose
          2013.6.36.1.104.05 · Item · Sept. 1991
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a slightly damaged CPR caboose sitting in a gondola. Damaged as a result of an accident in August at the Kamloops yard. It was on its way to Calgary.

          CPR spur
          2013.6.36.1.104.07 · Item · Mar. 1999
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a CPR spur leading into a lumber reload facility in Campbell Creek, east of Kamloops.

          CPR Kamloops ballast train
          2013.6.36.1.104.09 · Item · [May 1998]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a ballast train that was ready to depart. The caboose was one of 60 built in 1981 at CPR Angus Shops and was the last batch to built before the company closed in 1990.

          CPR Kamloops snow plows
          2013.6.36.1.104.10 · Item · [June 1997]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts one of the two snow plows that had arrived in January from the northbend and stayed until May. CPR # 401035 built in 1952. It was the 6th last snow plow built for the CPR (majority were built in 1920's).

          Sperry Rail testing car
          2013.6.36.1.104.11 · Item · Nov. 1993
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a Sperry Rail testing car in the CPR yard in downtown Kamloops. These cars must have been between 60 and 70 years old, but they were kept in excellent condition. Car #127 was built in 1926 and modernized in 1989.

          2013.6.36.1.104.17 · Item · [13 May 2004]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts westbound freight undergoing a crew change. The second and third locomotives were brand new "Alaska Railways." Presumed to be delivered to Alaska, but the engineer Davies spoke to said that they were on lease to the CPR.