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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          2013.6.36.1.022.17 · Item · [June 1979]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the Trout Creek CPR bridge near Summerland, about 9 miles north of Penticton. It is about 620 ft. long and the creek is 240 ft. below it. It was first crossed by the Chief Engineer's train on October 25, 1913. The view is looking south east.

          Tugboat in Annacis Channel
          2013.6.36.1.012.23 · Item · [between 1964 and 1966]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a small tugboat rescuing a motor cruiser that had been swept downstream in the Annacis Channel against a bridge, about 1.5 miles southwest of the Patullo Bridge, New Westminster.

          2013.6.36.1.014.14 · Item · Apr. 1966
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the tugboat "Gulf Margaret" with a Straits scow leaving the north arm of the Fraser River and entering the main river at New Westminster, travelling upstream. The tug belongs to the Gulf of Georgia Towing Company.

          Tugboat "Master"
          2013.6.36.1.012.22 · Item · [between 1964 and 1966]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a steam tugboat named "Master" owned by the World Ship Society (Vancouver Chapter). Photograph taken during Carnival and Regatta week in Vancouver.

          Tugboat "Master"
          2013.6.36.1.012.24 · Item · [between 1964 and 1966]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a steam tugboat named "Master" owned by the World Ship Society (Vancouver Chapter). Photograph taken during Carnival and Regatta week in Vancouver.

          Tugboat "Master"
          2013.6.36.1.012.21 · Item · [between 1964 and 1966]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a steam tugboat named "Master" owned by the World Ship Society (Vancouver Chapter). Photograph taken during Carnival and Regatta week in Vancouver.

          2011.18 · Collection · [between 1980 and 1985]

          Collection includes approximately 940 slides taken during the construction of the Tumbler Ridge Electric Railway during the early 1980s. Locations include the Anzac siding, the BC Rail Stuart subdivision, the Chetwynd subdivision, the Parsnip River area, Quintette, the Table River area, railway pipeline crossings, and the Wolverine River area, among others.

          Tunnel
          2012.13.1.100.15 · Item · 1999
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts the White Pass Train entering a tunnel in the mountain side.

          Turntable in Kamloops
          2013.6.36.1.095.02 · Item · Oct. 1995
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a turntable located at the CN Junction in Kamloops. It was strpped of rails and decking prior to being lifted out of the well.

          Twin Bridges
          2013.6.36.3.08.19 · Item · [after 1949]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Postcard depicts "Twin Bridges in the Fraser Canyon." The CPR and CNR changes sides at this point just a few miles south of Lytton below the Siska Market. One can see this spectacular view where trains change from oe side to another. During construction one briodge was for easier grading. In later year when the second railway was constructed, it [had] become a must to reverse the side of [the] river at this point."

          2013.6.36.1.010.77 · Item · Apr. 1966
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts two 3-truck Shay locomotives, #114 and behind her #115, belonging to the Railway Appliance Company at the Vancouver Wharves Ltd. in North Vancouver. They are in daily or weekly use. Both were built by Lima Locomotive Works Inc. Locomotive #114 was built in July 1928 as #3320 and #115 was built in October 1929 as #3344.

          2013.6.36.1.010.76 · Item · Apr. 1966
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts two 3-truck Shay locomotives, #114 and behind her #115, belonging to the Railway Appliance Company at the Vancouver Wharves Ltd. in North Vancouver. They are in daily or weekly use. Both were built by Lima Locomotive Works Inc. Locomotive #114 was built in July 1928 as #3320 and #115 was built in October 1929 as #3344.

          Two Campers
          2012.13.1.65.81 · Item · May 1984
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts two campers at an uncertain location, possibly somewhere near Meldrum Creek, B.C.

          Two Campers
          2012.13.1.65.82 · Item · May 1984
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts two campers at an uncertain location, possibly somewhere near Meldrum Creek, B.C.

          Two Dozers on Cliff
          2000.1.1.3.15.12 · Item · [ca. 1958]
          Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

          Photograph depicts unknown men driving bulldozers on edge of mine area at high elevation. Dozers are Internationals, model TD24 (manufactured between 1947 and 1955). Mountain range in background.