City of Vancouver Archives

Man sitting on top of freight train

AM626-: CVA 288-011
Item
[ca. 1933]

Part of Karl Koenig fonds

Revelstoke, B.C.

AM427-S4-F1-: CVA 289-001.007
Item
1912

Part of William Orson Banfield fonds

Item is a photograph showing three men and trains at a train station or depot. Photograph appears to be taken from a train.

Field, B.C.

AM427-S4-F1-: CVA 289-001.010
Item
1912

Part of William Orson Banfield fonds

Item is a photograph showing three men walking beside railroad tracks and a train stopped in Field, B.C.

Filling the trestle at Mile 2.2 K.V.R. : Tripping the cars

AM427-S4-F2-: CVA 289-002.435
Item
[ca. 1923]

Part of William Orson Banfield fonds

Filling the trestle at Mile 2.2 K.V.R. : Unloading the dinkey

AM427-S4-F2-: CVA 289-002.440
Item
[ca. 1923]

Part of William Orson Banfield fonds

Wreck on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (at mile 6.5 North Shore District, P.G.E.R. 1 1/4 miles west of Dundarave)

AM1535-: CVA 99-743
Item
4 Sept. 1916

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Wreck on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (at mile 6.5 North Shore District, P.G.E.R. 1 1/4 miles west of Dundarave)

AM1535-: CVA 99-742
Item
4 Sept. 1916

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Wreck on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (at mile 6.5 North Shore District, P.G.E.R. 1 1/4 miles west of Dundarave)

AM1535-: CVA 99-741
Item
4 Sept. 1916

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[C.P.R. New Westminster Junction]

AM54-S4-: Can P177
Item
[ca. 1885]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Bottom left corner shows inscription: "143, Harrison Station" [Image subject possibly shows Harrison Mills C.P.R. site?].

[B.C. Mountaineering Club excursion on new Pacific Great Eastern Railway]

AM505-S1-: CVA 660-130
Item
[ca. 1913]

Part of John Davidson fonds

Photograph shows people sitting on a flat car and a locomotive

[B.C. Mountaineering Club excursion on new Pacific Great Eastern Railway]

AM505-S1-: CVA 660-199
Item
[ca. 1913]

Part of John Davidson fonds

Photograph shows people sitting on a flat car and a locomotive

[C.P.R. station at Okanagan Landing]

AM505-S1-: CVA 660-288
Item
[between 1915 and 1920]

Part of John Davidson fonds

[View across the Point Grey Municipal Hall grounds towards West Boulevard]

AM505-S1-: CVA 660-338
Item
[ca. 1913]

Part of John Davidson fonds

Sicamous Hotel and Shuswap Lake

AM1477-1-S5---: CVA 1477-253
Item
Aug. 1926

Part of L.D. Taylor family fonds

Photograph postcard shows the Sicamous Hotel and a train along the edge of the Shuswap Lake

C.P.R. locomotive #1140

AM1535-: CVA 99-1261
Item
[ca. 1911]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[L.D. Taylor with other men standing alongside a train]

AM1477-1-S5-: CVA 1477-888
Item
[1928?]

Part of L.D. Taylor family fonds

Individual identified is L.D. Taylor (far left).

[Logging train]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-218
Item
[190?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows logging crew posing on train loaded with logs.

[Sultan Railway and Timber Company train with logs and crew]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-201
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Train [behind Columbia Street]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-285
Item
[191-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows six men posing at front of train. Various buildings can be seen behind the train, including T. J. Trapp and Company (688 Columbia Street) and Anderson and Lusby (634 Columbia Street).

Locomotive at field, C.P.R., Rocky Mountains

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-455
Item
[188-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows two men in engine of car. A mountainside covered in trees can be seen in the background.

Glacier Hotel, Selkirk Mountains

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-456
Item
[ca. 1886]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows hotel buildings, train cars, people on train platform, fountain, and mountains in the background.

Six carloads of canned fruit from the Chilliwack Canning and Preserving Co. Ltd. ready for shipment to Vancouver Wholesale Houses

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-501
Item
31 Dec. 1910

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows six men standing in a field in front of B.C.E.R. cars. Each car contains a sign indicating the cargo and the wholesaler to which it was to be delivered.

Loading operation in the woods - Canal Flats

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-246
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows men using a crane to load logs onto flatbed railway cars.

C.P.R. operators at York, B.C.

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-245
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows three posing on train engine, to which six cars of logs are attached.

[Railroad engine, crew, and logs]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-212
Item
[189-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

[Timber yard with train]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-215
Item
[189-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows a yard full of logs, and two men attaching logs to a platform behind a train.

[Tramp standing in front of railway car]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-382
Item
[193-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

[Railroad workers and B.C.E.R. engine number 981]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-384
Item
[193-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows two men in front of the car and two men inside the car.

[B.C.E.R. engine, cars, and crew]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-448
Item
[191-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Notes on the back of the photograph mounting identify some individuals in the photograph: Ed. Roulty, Alex Innis, Harry Norman, George Breen, Bill Harrison, Cameron, Frank Murray, Arthur Raurul.

Hastings at Cambie [showing streetcar, Woodward's cart, and corner of the Court House garden]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-582
Item
[1905?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

C.P.R. locomotive 2587

AM1535-: CVA 99-1316
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Pacific Great Eastern Railway - first trip to Alta Lake [travellers on open railway car]

AM1535-: CVA 99-1315
Item
14 June 1925

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[People posing with railway engine pulling logs]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-999
Item
[189-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows men posing in front of engine and on logs, and women and child inside the engine. Photograph also shows surrounding trees and stumps.

[Men standing beside railway engine pulling logs]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-877
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Original accompanying envelope was labelled "B.C. Mills Timber and Trading Co. Operation, Rock Bay, Vancouver, Island, K.Y."

[Group of men with railway engine pulling logs]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-876
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Original accompanying envelope was labelled "B.C. Mills Timber and Trading Co. Operation, Rock Bay, Vancouver, Island, K.Y."

Columbia River [Kicking Horse River] near Golden

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-1562
Item
[ca. 1916]

Part of James Crookall fonds

Rockies by Rail ; music and FX [effects] only offline

AM1553-8-S13-: MI-509
Item
1992

Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds

Item is a version of "Rockies by rail" which has no narration, only music and effects. There is a time code reading at the bottom of the screen throughout. Footage includes some nice panning shots of the city of Vancouver. Michael Collier is sometimes one of the train passengers. Some footage was shot in Alaska as well as British Columbia.