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Image Title
Description
Object
Date
Accession # Location
More Info Cranbrook Railway Station
Set of 8 glass negatives showing the collapse of the Cranbrook station, and of the surrounding area
photograph : glass negatives


1902?
2010.003.623 PHOTO.0150.0126
More Info Last Orders to CLC Power Locomotive
CPR #31 (1975)

textual record : instructions


1987.084.114 1-3-8-7

'The Railway Museum at Cranbrook'
Welcome aboard the Trans - Canada Limited, Canada's $1,000,000 train
textual record : pamphlet


Unknown
1993.015.004 PF.0189.0002

Early Rails
Unidentified location
textual record : photograph, photocopy


1999.012.004 1-3-6-4

Early Rails
Unidentified location
textual record : photograph, photocopy


1999.012.005 1-3-6-4

Locomotives
Railway yard at Field BC, at night

photograph : col


1997
1999.014.001 1-3-6-3

Constructed in Kingston
A History of the Canadian Locomotive Companies 1854 to 1968
photos & diagrams
book : hardcover


2000
2000.012.001 Library

Diesel Builders; The: Vol 3 Balbwin Locomotive Works
photos
book :


1994
2001.045.001 Library
More Info
Modern American Railway Pactice - Locomotive design.Copyright 1906 - Frederick J. Drake & Co. Chicago,
Chicago Engr Co.
c/w legend
Poster


2001.049.001 Archives

American Railroads of the Nineteenth Century
A Pictorial History in Victorian wood engravings
Depicts early railroad life, locomotives, trains, frieght and passenger cars & passengers
book : hardcover


1998
2002.004.001 Archives

Twilight of The Great Trains
book : hardcover


1998
2003.010.003 Library

New York Central's Great Steel Fleet 1948-1967
book : hardcover


1995
2003.010.004 Library

Newfie Bullet: The, The Story of Passenger Train Service in Newfoundland
Signed by Author
book :


2000
2003.010.005 Library

Victoria and Sidney Railway: The 1892-1919
Written partly to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the railroad. Story takes us through many facets of the company; early years, original proposals, growing pains and problems, connecting with the mainland, to the final years.
b&w photographs, appendices, chronology, index
duplicate of CBK 2007.033.065
book : softcover


1992
2003.010.006 Library

Haliburton by Rail and the I.B.& O.
book : softcover


1992
2003.010.007 Library

Canadian Pacific Railway
Crowsnest Pass Promoter April 8, 2003 - The CPR arrives in the Crowsnest Pass 1897/98 - photocopy
textual record : newspaper article, printed


2003
2003.045.001 1-3-8-6

Local History
Freeman O'Neil, born July 24, 1879, Nova Scotia. Arrived in the Kootenay area and Cranbrook 1902, worked for the CPR until 1952.
photograph : b&w, mounted


2003.061.001 1-3-8-11

Local History
CPR Logging Camp at Jaffray, BC
Freeman O'Neil, camp boss, see letter dated August 23, 1910 CBK.2003.061.004
Photo of Camp Crew
photograph : b&w, mounted


ca 1910
2003.061.002 1-3-8-11
More Info Local History
To: F. O'Neil, Windermere
CPR letterhead signed by Chief Timer Ranger
textual record : letter, typewritten


ca 1909
2003.061.003 2-1-1-46
More Info Local History
To: F. O'Neil, Jaffray, BC
CPR letterhead, movement of camp to Bull River signed by Chief Timer Ranger
textual record : letter, typewritten


ca 1910
2003.061.004 2-1-1-46
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