Railroads--Freight

Log train on Vancouver Island

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-842
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Log train on Vancouver Island

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-843
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Large propeller [on C.N.R. car]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-851
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

C.N.R. freight shed [on] Railway Street

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4080
Item
Nov. 1945

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

C.N.R. freight shed [on] Railway Street

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4081
Item
Nov. 1945

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

C.N.R. freight shed [on] Railway Street

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4082
Item
Nov. 1945

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

[Canadian Northern Railway] freight shed, False Creek

AM54-S4-: Bu N540.055
Item
8 Oct. 1917

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows completed freight buildings with construction materials in the foreground.

Temporary plank road, Main St. to [Canadian Northern Railway] freight shed, Vancouver

AM54-S4-: Bu N540.065
Item
30 Nov. 1917

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows wooden bridge crossing over False Creek to dirt road leading to railway shed.

Vancouver [Canadian Northern Railway] freight shed

AM54-S4-: Bu N540.091
Item
4 Apr. 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows cars and trucks by freight building with trains in yard in the background.

[Rail freight cars carrying Timberland Lumber Company Ltd. lumber]

AM54-S4-: Mi N36
Item
1925

Part of Major Matthews collection

['British Columbia Toothpicks' on freight car at Hastings Sawmill]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2697
Item
[ca. 1893]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows tall ship masts in the background

Filling. [Canadian Northern Railway] freight shed

AM54-S4-: Bu N540.059
Item
31 Oct. 1917

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows large pipe extending past front of freight shed with construction materials and horse-drawn wagon at side.

[View of man loading automobile freight car]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-139
Item
[1919]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows the loading of an automobile freight car.

Waterfront Viaduct Construction [7 of 11]

COV-S663-: CVA 800-2451
Item
Sept. 19, 1983

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Abernethy-Lougheed Logging Co. Ltd. locomotive drawing train of logs, Port Haney]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N01
Item
1921

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Britannia Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd. freight cars of ore at Britannia Mines]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N37
Item
9 Sept. 1919

Part of Major Matthews collection

[C.P.R. trainload of Huntting-Merritt Lumber Co. Ltd. red cedar shingles]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N123
Item
15 Apr. 1924

Part of Major Matthews collection

[C.P.R. trainload of Huntting-Merritt Lumber Co. Ltd. red cedar shingles]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N124
Item
1924

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Canadian Pacific Railway station, S.S. "Princess Mary" at Pier D]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N46
Item
1915

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows C.P. passenger and freight cars and hotel buses.

[Canadian Pacific train load of Bainbridge lumber - "B.C. Toothpicks"]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N11
Item
1924

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Northern Pacific train load of Huntting-Merritt Lumber Co. ltd. red cedar shingles]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N126B
Item
[1924?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Northern Pacific trainload of Huntting-Merritt Lumber Co. Ltd. red cedar shingles]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N126A
Item
[1924?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Railroad trestle, tracks and B.M. & S. Co. Ltd. freight cars at 1200 foot level at Britannia Mines]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N38
Item
Sept. 1919

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Three trainloads of Huntting-Merritt Lumber Co. Ltd. red cedar shingles]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N125
Item
[1924?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Train load of coal cars purchased by the Peking-Mukden Railway of China from the Northwest Trading Co., Seattle]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N64
Item
July 1919

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Train load of coal cars purchased by the Peking-Mukden Railway of China from the Northwest Trading Co., Seattle]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N65
Item
July 1919

Part of Major Matthews collection

One Shipment of B.C. -Red- Cedar shingles From Huntting-Merritt Lumber Co., Ltd. Vancouver, B.C. Consisting of Three Solid Trains. June 7th, 1924

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N127
Item
7 June 1924

Part of Major Matthews collection

This Solid Train of 85 Cars Containing British Columbia Edge Grain Red Cedar Shingles Shipped June, 24th, 1924.

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N128
Item
24 June 1924

Part of Major Matthews collection

This Train Contains Over Nine Million Shingles, Enough to Roof Four thousand People, Shipped April, 15th, 1924. British Columbia Edge Grain Shingles

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N122
Item
15 Apr. 1924

Part of Major Matthews collection

Image shows train identified as Northern Pacific.

[Freight tracks, cars and sheds for the Great Northern Railway at the south side of False Creek]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1056
Item
8 Oct. 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Freight cars on railway track with signs reading "Canned salmon. Gift of British Columbia to Imperial Govt."]

AM54-S4-: LGN 691
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Storage tanks and railway tanks at Imperial Oil Company refinery in Burnaby]

AM54-S4-: LGN 685
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Diesel locomotive and freight cars

AM1661-: CVA 238-23
Item
1968

Part of Frank Appelbe fonds

[View of train load of Timber line Lumber Co. "toothpicks".]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N212-A-2
Item
1924

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Derailed B.C.E.R. car and spilled railway ties]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-383
Item
[193-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows a flatbed railway car whose back end has come off the track, spilling railway ties down a small embankmen. Photograph also shows various workers at the scene.

[Front view of C.P.R. locomotive 3487 with banners "Canned Salmon, Gift of British Columbia to Imperial Government"]

AM1535-: CVA 99-1318
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[Rear view C.P.R. freight train with banners "Canned Salmon, Gift of British Columbia to Imperial Government"]

AM1535-: CVA 99-1317
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[Rail car loaded with lumber at the Canada Customs Sufferance Warehouse under the Georgia Viaduct]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-2767
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

Photograph shows the Gasometer located on the B.C. Electric Railway Carrall Street yard and Gas Plant.

BCH [B.C. Hydro] Low Bed Car [loaded with equipment]

AM1506-S2-6-: CVA 447-1698
Item
Oct. 28, 1967

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

[B.C. Hydro] Low Bed Car [loaded with equipment]

AM1506-S2-6-: CVA 447-1698.1
Item
Sept. 1961

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

C.P.R. Special Flat Car #309928

AM1506-S2-4-: CVA 447-730.1
Item
Mar. 18, 1956

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

Page-Hershey Tubes Limited - carload of pipes

AM1535-: CVA 99-4078
Item
Oct. 13, 1931

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Photograph shows Mr. Trail and others

Buffalo bones gathered from the Prairie for shipment, at Gull Lake, N.W.T.

AM54-S4-: LGN 742
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men posing with piles of bones next to freight cars on railway tracks.

C.P.R. Steam, Pass. Eng. #2705 [Class G4A]

AM1506-S2-4-: CVA 447-445
Item
Mar. 27, 1936

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

Photograph shows part of the Ross and Howard Iron Works Co. Ltd. building

Benson's answers to - : some proposals by A.C. Benson for waterfront development and dangerous cargo handling

AM1519-: PAM 1981-20
Item
1981

Part of City of Vancouver Archives pamphlet collection

C.N.R. [Canadian National Railway] oil tank cars

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-849
Item
[1942?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

C.N.R. supplies for Russia

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-3816
Item
Apr. 1945

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

C.N.R. supplies for Russia

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-3817
Item
Apr. 1945

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

[View of train load of Timberline Lumber Co. "toothpicks"]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N212-A-1
Item
1924

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows three men on an American Locomotive Crane.

[C.P.R. trainload of halibut and salmon heading for the New England Fish Co., Boston]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N164
Item
1922

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows the rear of the Cambie Rooms, McClary Manufacturing, Northern Electric, Hudson's Bay Co. and Dominion Rubber in the background.

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