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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          290 Archival description results for Transportation and Utilities

          2013.6.36.1.093.08 · Item · Aug. 1995
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts Beaver Trucking located on Kamloops Indian Reserve No. 1 on Tk'emlups te Secwepemc territory, Kamloops, BC. It had been a company since 1990 and received 2 or 3 boxcars weekly loaded with items from Toronto that were then delivered around town. Davies later noted that the business was destroyed by arson in 1997.

          Carriage
          2012.13.1.66.13 · Item · June 1987
          Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

          Image depicts a red carriage labelled in yellow "B.C. Express Co. No. 20." It is possibly located in Kamloops, B.C.

          CN caboose
          2013.6.36.1.102.18 · Item · [3 June 1989]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts train master Al Wingrave in a caboose stationed at the Kamloops Junction. Undergoing speed checks on the Clearwater Subdivision.

          CN caboose
          2013.6.36.1.102.20 · Item · [3 June 1989]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a caboose that had just reached a terminal relief switch at Blue River. It was eastbound and contained 103 empty grain cars. Taken at the Kamloops Junction.

          CN crane 50397
          2013.6.36.1.096.02 · Item · Oct. 1995
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a crane that had just finished loading a flat car, minus its trucks, onto a road vehicle. It was going to be used on a logging bridge.

          CN crane 50399
          2013.6.36.1.096.04 · Item · Oct. 1995
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a crane that had been overturned and damaged after it had been by a rock that had tumbled down a creek in north Thompson.

          2013.6.36.1.092.03 · Item · 1 Mar. 1991
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a CN freight derailment in Brockelhurst, Kamloops. It was an 80 car hopper train carrying urea fertilizer. It derailed 28 cars and most were severely damaged. Ripped up 200 meteres of the track.

          2013.6.36.1.092.11 · Item · 1 Mar. 1991
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts how wrecked cars were removed from the Brockelhurst derailment site using a CN rail crane and a rented Sterling Crane Co. crane, which was set up right beside the track. Here, the car was lifted from the side of the track and positioned above the rail track.