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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          23 Archival description results for Transportation and Utilities

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          Photographs
          2000.13.1 · Series · 1914 - 1997
          Part of Ray Williston fonds

          Series consists of photographs relating to Ray Williston's life from childhood to recent times, air photographs of Prince George, photographs of Bangladesh, and a listing of photographs slated for use in Mr. Williston's biography "Forests, power and policy: the legacy of Ray Williston" written by Eileen Williston and Betty Keller.

          2013.6.36.1.028.14 · Item · 18 Aug. 1983
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts CPR wreck crane #414475 and reach car # 402093. The crane has a 200 ton capacity and was manufactured in 1929 by the Industrial Brownhoist Corp. in Cleveland, Ohio. It's a type 2, steam crane #5162. Freestanding it is 30ft. The radius equals a 17 ton lift and outrigged at 17ft , 200 ton lift. Nelson lies 138 miles to the west.

          CPR line east of Cranbrook
          2013.6.36.1.028.16 · Item · Aug. 1983
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the CPR 9 miles east of Cranbrook, on the Nelson Subdivision. The timetable says a siding of 3384 ft. can hold 61 cars, but it cannot be found. The view is looking east.

          Roundhouse at Cranbrook
          2013.6.36.1.028.17 · Item · Aug. 1983
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a roundhouse with 16 bays at Cranbrook. Currently 7 were fitted with rails, of which 5 bays are in use. Four of these bays were holding snowplows and 2 were clearly not used. Three of the sixteen bays appear to never have been fitted with track.

          Passenger car at Cranbrook
          2013.6.36.1.028.18 · Item · 18 Aug. 1983
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a 12 wheeler passenger car, CPR #411641, used as car man's sleeper. Behind it is wash/shower car #412718. It is followed by work diner car #411369, which is also a 12 wheeler with an arch bar truck. They are used for work and wreck train service.

          CPR Cranbrook
          2013.6.36.1.130.06 · Item · Sept. 2000
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts weighing track in Cranbrook. Presumably, locomotives took the track on the left side, while cars used the weigh track on the right side.

          CPR Cranbrook
          2013.6.36.1.130.07 · Item · Sept. 2000
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a brick roundhouse of 5 or 6 stalls that were used for stores and non-locomotive activities.