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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          4832 Archival description results for Transportation and Utilities

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          BCER Granville Island
          2013.6.36.1.048.01 · Item · 2 Oct. 1974
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken looking westward, down Johnston Street from the Granville Bridge. Davies notes minimal clearance on the left side of the track.

          BCER Granville Island
          2013.6.36.1.048.05 · Item · 26 Sept. 1974
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a railing lane running west between Johnston Street and Cartwright Street. It lead to General Machinary Ltd which is found on the left. Davie notes it had a spur, lighter rail beyond the switches and poor track.

          BCER Granville Island
          2013.6.36.1.048.19 · Item · 6 Oct. 1974
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts an unused spur leading southward to Morrison Steel and Wire Company Ltd. The spur crosses a disused line running on the south side of Cartwright Street.

          BCER Granville Island
          2013.6.36.1.048.14 · Item · 13 Mar. 1968
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken looking eastward on Cartwright Street with property of Brandham-Handerson Point Company at the right. A trank car, property of Union Tank Car Company (built in 1926) is visible along the building. The tank car was about to be switched by the BCER.

          BCER Granville Island
          2013.6.36.1.048.17 · Item · 2 Oct. 1974
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken on the southwest side of Granville Island. After 2 years of hassle with owner Clay, Davies notes, the city of Vancouver purchased his property so as to re-develop the whole area as part of the False Creek clean up. There was opposition coming from moorage renters.

          BCER Granville Island
          2013.6.36.1.048.21 · Item · 13 Mar. 1968
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts BCER freight switching on the Island's trackage with B.C. locomotive #901 and tank car, property of Union Tank Car Company, built in 1926. Image captured directly underneath Granville Bridge.

          BCER Granville Island
          2013.6.36.1.048.06 · Item · 26 Sept. 1974
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken on Cartwright Street, looking eastward. Track to the right is unusable because the switch towards the right is blocked over.

          BCER Granville Island
          2013.6.36.1.048.18 · Item · 26 Sept. 1974
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken looking westward, down Cartwright Street. Trackage seen was not usable. Switch was blacktopped into position. The far end of the spur was used to lead to Columbia Bitolithic Ltd. Unseen track on the right side of the road was still in use.

          BCER Abbotsford
          2013.6.36.1.049.22 · Item · [3 June 1973]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts one of six former sub-stations of the BC Electric Railway's 64 mile interurban railway between New Westminster and Chilliwack. It opened in 1910, but was closed in the 1950's due to electric traction. The interior had been vandalized, but the building (made out of concrete) was so well built that the structure itself was quite sound.

          BC Rail Squamish yards
          2013.6.36.1.045.16 · Item · [8 June 1974]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts derelict bunk and cook cars of the former Pacific Great Eastern. Found on the siding of at the yards in Squamish. Car #990224 appears originally to have been an electric interurban car.

          BC Rail snow plow
          2013.6.36.1.109.13 · Item · [May 1998]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a BCR snow plow on a spur located opposite a former Squamish depot that was burned down. All the windows of the snow equipment in front of the plow were broken by vandals, so there was spare service for winter operations.

          BC Rail Prince George
          2013.6.36.1.045.59 · Item · [12 July 1980]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken at the passenger depot in Prince George, sited on a dead-end spur. It is situated in an industrial park some miles away from the city centre.

          BC Rail Porteau Cove
          2013.6.36.1.045.28 · Item · [19 July 1975]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a speeder proceeding north to Squamish. Davies notes that it was easier to lift a speeder over the blades than work the switch.

          BC Rail Porteau Cove
          2013.6.36.1.045.11 · Item · [19 July 1975]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a few speeders passing by. The one on the right is preceding southbound freight. Siding has the capacity for 55 cars.

          BC Rail Lone Butte
          2013.6.36.1.045.22 · Item · 24 Sept. 1972
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts various work spurs. The spur on the left of the image is a work train, behind it is a running loop. The spur on the right led to a gravel pile. Not shown is the spur which was used for loading equipment like carts and shovels.

          BC Rail Lone Butte
          2013.6.36.1.045.21 · Item · 24 Sept. 1972
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts various spurs. One spur was for a work crew train, another led to a gravel pile as well as one which was located at the far end and was for loading heavy equipment onto flat cars. A passing loop to the main line can be seen in the background.