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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          BC Hydro Railway Langley
          2013.6.36.1.049.13 · Item · [22 June 1975]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken from the cab of locomotive #382 on the eastbound freight travelling from New Westminster to Huntingdon and was composed of 45 cars. Langley was the only place where freight stopped and switched cars.

          BC Hydro Railway Langley
          2013.6.36.1.049.25 · Item · 2 Jan. 1972
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken on the western outskirts of Langley on the Latimer Road grade crossing. The abandoned grade was the former main line right-of-way through the centre of Langley. It was was replaced by a north by-pass in about 1968-69.

          BC Hydro Railway Langley
          2013.6.36.1.049.11 · Item · [22 June 1975]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts locomotive #382 which consisted of 3 locomotives and switching cars at an industrial steel fabrication plant. Freight was travelling from New Westminster to Huntingdon.

          BC Hydro Railway Langley
          2013.6.36.1.049.14 · Item · [22 June 1975]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken approaching Langely from the west at about mile 16 at the by-pass diversion point. Image captured from the cab of locomotive #382, looking eastward as the locomotive pulled 45 freight cars to Huntingdon.

          BC Hydro Railway Langley
          2013.6.36.1.049.24 · Item · 2 Jan. 1972
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph taken looking southwest at the Langley town centre. Fraser Highway was 2 pole lengths away. The track used to be the main line with a spur leading to the right. Now all of the trackage was spur with the main line skirting the north side of the city.

          2013.6.36.1.049.41 · Item · 8 Oct. 1972
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a CPR unit coal train travelling eastward at the Livingstone Road grade crossing, near the freeway and with half of the train already on the CNR connector. This connects the main line of BC Hydro Railway with the CNR main line (known as the Rawlison Subdivision CNR).

          2013.6.36.1.049.29 · Item · [June 1970]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts part of the new 2 1/2 mile railway that was built to connect the CPR main line just east of Fort Langley with existing BCER trackage found on Living Stone Road. Trackage was not in operational use.

          2013.6.36.1.049.49 · Item · [22 June 1975]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the Clayborn diamond crossing on mile 37.0. An eastbound 45 car BC Hydro Railway freight had just cleared the crossing. Now it was stopped, awaiting the conductor who had just worked the signals in an interlocking shanty.

          BC Hydro Railway Burnaby
          2013.6.36.1.049.23 · Item · 2 Jan. 1972
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts the Central Park Branch in Burnaby. Taken just west of the Stride Avenue grade crossing. The spur visible in the background led to the Dominion Glass Company Ltd. bottle plant.

          BC Hydro Railway Abbotsford
          2013.6.36.1.049.43 · Item · [3 June 1973]
          Part of David Davies Railway Collection

          Photograph depicts a westbound way freight switching at the Matsqui Industrial Centre on the north side of Abbotsford. Train consisted of BC Hydro Railway locomotives and 25 box cars.