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I can not remember the exact date but I clearly remember that a group of us from Victoria were in Ladysmith working to free the old CP spreader from the existing blackberry bushes and get it ready to be moved south to Victoria for storage. Everything went well at the time but shortly afterwords local politics reared it's ugly head and the spreader stayed in Ladysmith to await it's fate. The attached photograph shows one of Vancouver Island's two VIA dayliners near the north end of the Ladysmith's E&N station. I can not be sure of the VIA car's number but it would have been 6135 or 6148. The station is still there as are the MB buildings but a lot has changed. I would have loved to back in time to see the local Ladysmith operations of the E&N and the MB logging RY's in action. The smell of steam as a Locomotive passes by. What more can you ask for.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	04/00/1998
Location:	Ladysmith
Province:	British Columbia

2 Comments | 13 Favourites

In the 1980's the rail yard in Kelowna BC was fairly active so when I passed through the city I normally took a little detour and dropped over to see what activity was taking place. By standing well back and ignoring the few poles that tried to jump into your view you could get some good shots. Before my time these tracks extended to the edge of the lake and were very active with passenger & freight trains. Now all appears to be gone and built over.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/30/1987
Location:	Kelowna
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 12 Favourites

Typical Vancouver day! Lots of liquid sunshine! I had just heard that VIA Rail was selling little piggy banks and I wanted one so I braved Vancouver's slug like traffic, parked, walked across some wet grass and purchased one. After the big buy I walked out to the rear of the station & took the attached photograph which shows that VIA Rail train was still being heated by steam. As for the piggy bank I still have it along with it's original box. Some day one of my kids will open it and get rich. Of course I have no idea what 11 cents will be worth in the future.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	05/24/1986
Location:	Vancouver
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 8 Favourites

The west bound VIA passenger train is just passing the the old CNR (GT) car shops and heading towards the London Ont. CNR station. The train, led by locomotive # 6527 looks like a typical early VIA train. Locomotive & cars all ex CNR. The CNR station (black tower) was still owned by the CNR at the time and VIA Rail leased space in the building. I have no idea who owned the old car shops when I took the picture. I had a bad habit of taking train pictures early in the morning while visiting London. Just could not wait for the early fog to burn off. I just took pictures when I could.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	10/24/1982
Location:	London
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 4 Favourites

The exact date I can't remember but I know it was on a Sunday. My friend Jack Lord & I had been discussing this trip for weeks so I picked him up and we drove all the way from New Westminster to downtown Vancouver so we could photograph what was left of the CP "Drake ST. Yards" There was no railway activity taking place but the place was crawling with people walking around and on bikes. There were lots of buildings to photograph along with a few MLW yard engines. At no time did I see any graffiti on anything. The attached photograph was taken near the ready tracks which was located just north of the roundhouse. The brick building (oil house) was a leftover from the steam era and the two tanks (lube oil tank & waste oil tank) were a much latter addition. On the other side of the oil house sat MlW units 7094,7116,7117, & 7113 and behind me sat MLW 7076. All the locomotives on site were shut down.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	09/00/1981
Location:	Vancouver
Province:	British Columbia

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I know that there are two or three of you out there that have never been to Trail BC but if you take the opportunity to do so you will be impressed by the size of the mining and related processing plants located there! The industrial area sits at a slightly higher elevation that the town and it is the only area served by the CPR. The attached photograph was taken from the edge of the old highway leading into Trail. I never trespassed there because I did not think it was wise. Especially at that location. I was quite happy to catch the two CP first generation locomotives #'s 8616 & 8820 working together near the entrance to the site.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/11/1986
Location:	Trail
Province:	British Columbia

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I was on my way from London to Kingston & decided to drive along the Toronto waterfront to have a quick look at Ontario Place. Took a couple of pictures of the RCN destroyer & some other pieces of WW2 equipment on display. (As an ex military veteran I have self deleted my thoughts on what I saw.) After I was done looking around near the water front I walked over to the CNE grounds & took two pictures of the TTC cars before leaving for Kingston. I am not sure if I have identified the exact location, nor can I name it. It was a great day though, & I enjoyed it. I still have my memories of the older TTC street cars when I visited Toronto as a child many years ago.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	Toronto Transit Co…
Date:	08/00/1994
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

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The L&PS RY was long gone when I took this picture of the old L&PS freight shed in London Ont.. I guess I took it to keep my child hood memory banks alive. With great enjoyment I Watched the Electric motors & Electric passenger cars moving freight around the area. I did this as a kid in the late 1940's & early 1950's and it was always a pleasurable occurrence. On the north side of the building there was a line that connected the L&PS and the CNR lines. I was standing on the east side of Colborne St. when I took the picture. If I had taken a similar picture in the early 1950's I could have turned 180 degrees and photographed the old L&PS roundhouse. I often wonder what life in London would be like today if the population had the chance to hop on an electric car and ride down to the beach in Port Stanley? As a side note at one time London had 5 roundhouse's & 2 car barns, & a street car barn.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	London and Port St…
Date:	10/00/1982
Location:	London
Province:	Ontario

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With permission I spent a long time measuring and photographing the three 1913 buildings at the CPR yard in Victoria BC. I Learned a lot about them. What was done well and what was badly thought out. All three buildings were a bit ahead of the times in their design and construction. Today the buildings have been sold and are being renovated to suit the needs of a private company. The attached photograph shows the northwest corner of the backshop as it looked during it's last days as a railway maintenance facility. At the date I took the photograph the whole carshop and portion of the roundhouse structure were leased to VIA Rail. I can't remember the actual date but it was in the last half of the 1990's.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	--/--/199?
Location:	Victoria
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 12 Favourites

Borrowed a company car & drove down to Carcross YT from Whitehorse YT with the flimsy excuse that I needed to see a certain building when I only wanted to see WP&Y station at Carcross. Some words were said when I got back but it was worth it! While there a mixed train from Whitehorse showed up so I took a few pictures of it and I will share them at a latter date. The train stopped long enough for the passengers to get off and stretch their legs. Today The WP&Y goes no further north than Carcross.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	White Pass and Yuk…
Date:	08-13-1982
Location:	Carcross
Province:	Yukon

2 Comments | 10 Favourites

Seeing these two WP&Y locomotives came as a bit of a surprise to me. Up till then I not aware of any WP&Y locomotives working in the lower mainland and had given them no thought whatsoever. I stopped long enough to take 4 photographs prior to continuing on to BCR shop area. WP&Y #1 was sitting on it's wheels & WP&Y #2 was sitting on the ground with it's wheels removed. To the best of my knowledge #1 went to logging museum in Duncan BC and #2 was cut up and #1 was the only WP&Y locomotive that I managed to photographed in in it's original colors. Also I have no idea if the two locomotives worked up north prior to working in North Vancouver, but I believe that they were there to move the WP&Y containers around.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	White Pass and Yuk…
Date:	08-00-1981
Location:	North Vancouver
Province:	British Columbia

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When I first spotted this interesting little WP&Y car it was surrounded by grass and sitting on the rails behind the locomotive shed in city of Whitehorse YT. Having grown up in southern Ontario and living out west I have seen lots of section cars but none as large as this, so I did a little research and came up with an answer that could be totally incorrect! In the early 19th century there was a company in Harvey Illinois called the Buda Co. that built section motor cars. In Dawson City Yukon the museum has the body of a Buda car with no wheels. That puts a Buda car in Yukon at the time period of the KMR, and the KMR did buy equipment from the WP&Y so maybe the car in the picture was also made by the Buda Co. It does not look home made. Having said that it does have a nice drivers seat. Does it still exist, that I can't answer. All the buildings in the background were occupied by squatters who have since left the area.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	White Pass and Yuk…
Date:	08-11-1982
Location:	Whitehorse
Province:	Yukon

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An evening shot of WP&Y 90 & 100 resting outside the locomotive shed at Whitehorse YT. If I remember correctly I had just arrived at Whitehorse for a work related two week stay. I enjoyed the people, the scenery, and the history. You can read about the gold rush era and learn a lot, but to actually stand there and see the remains of what the gold rush era did for the Yukon is amazing. Looking it from a railway point of view I thought of the original need for the WP&Y and for its service during WW2 so I made it my goal to get as many pictures as I could. At the time I did not realize that I was seeing the WP&Y in it's last days before it shut down just a few month's latter. As a side note the area around the locomotive shed has it's own micro history.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	White Pass and Yuk…
Date:	08-04-1982
Location:	Whitehorse
Province:	Yukon

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When I first arrived in Dawson City during the summer of 1982 I had no idea that I would find a group of old steam locomotives sitting in town! They were in various states of disrepair and I was attracted to them like a magnet to a nail. Whitehorse, steam locomotives OK, Dawson City, steam locomotives? That it was time to learn a little, most assuredly. Almost all of them had yellow numbers painted on them. They all belonged to the "Klondike Mines Railway" a short line between Dawson City and Sulfur Springs. The line was about 32 miles long. It's gauge was 3 ft 0 inches. The attached picture is of KMR #1 a Brooks Mogul (2-6-0) built in 1881. It is one of the oldest locomotives preserved in Canada. Built for the KCR in the USA then sold to the Alberta Railway and Coal Co, and sold again to the YP&Y, after the WP&Y was done with it she was barged up river to Dawson City to end it's active life. Today it rests in the Dawson City museum locomotive shelter and is being cosmetically restored.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	Other
Date:	08-06-1982
Location:	Dawson City
Province:	Yukon

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If I am correct the locomotive was perched by "Dunsmuir,Diggle,& CO and used in Wellington BC. It was originally built in 1883 as 30 inch gauge 0-6-0 and later converted to a 36 inch gauge 2-4-0 by disconnecting the first set of drive wheels which were left in place. The conversion was probably carried out in the Wellington shops prior to the WP&Y buying it in 1900. After arriving in the Yukon "The Duchess" spent her remaining years in the Carcross area. The paddle wheeler in the background is the "Tutshi" which was built by the British Navigation Co. in 1917, She was destroyed by fire in 1990. Today the area around "The Duchess" has been revamped and the remains of the "Tutshi" have been mostly left in place. The Dunsmuir era on Vancouver island is very interesting. For those unfamiliar with the location of Wellington it is located on the north side of Nanaimo BC. One thing I never did but I wanted to do was to find out many engine house's/roundhouses were built on Vancouver. Amazing what one little picture can teach you!

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	White Pass and Yuk…
Date:	08-13-1982
Location:	Carcross
Province:	Yukon

Comments | 11 Favourites

To get this picture I had walk up a gravel road on opposite of the Yukon river. The camera location allowed me to look down into Whitehorse. The two stall engine house is easy to see and in front of it you can see a pair of locomotives (WP&Y 90 & 91) along with van #901. The side of the engine house looks black which it was at the time. A few years earlier two river boats had burned to the ground near the building & the heat from the fire
allowed the stone granules to fall off the siding and leave a dull black surface. Also you can see a flat area between the shop area and the Yukon river. That was the site of the BYN CO. Whitehorse shipyards a subsidiary of the WP&Y. The engine house has been relocated and there is almost no existing evidence that a railway existed in the area.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	White Pass and Yuk…
Date:	08-11-1982
Location:	Whitehorse
Province:	Yukon

Comments | 6 Favourites

Prior to taking this picture I only caught #73 sitting outside the Whitehorse engine house. In this picture she was at the head end with two GE units behind her, and she waiting for permission to enter the station platform area. The mixed train consisted of loaded flat cars and passenger cars. Getting back to #73 she was brought back to life in wood frame engine house at Whitehorse. I have a large B&W picture of #73 when she was being tested prior to being put back into service. In that picture you can see an old reel to reel tape recorder sitting on the deck above the pilot wheels.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	White Pass and Yuk…
Date:	08-14-1982
Location:	Whitehorse
Province:	Yukon

Comments | 10 Favourites

A great location to photograph WP&Y locomotives. Everything was shut down and all was peaceful. The blue painted locomotives & vans were resting in front of the two stall wood frame engine house & some of them were easy to photograph. It was easy to see that the locomotives had led a hard life. One had it's snow plow blade missing, & others had their blades bent due to plowing rocks off the tracks. I guess that I was lucky to be sent there in 1982. Was happy to see the railway operating. At the time I did not realize WP&Y was about to shut down. Lots to see in the Yukon! Beautiful scenery, & lots of nice people.

My Latitude/Longitude location may be a little off as all the old landmarks are gone.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	White Pass and Yuk…
Date:	08-04-1982
Location:	Whitehorse
Province:	Yukon

Comments | 13 Favourites

Another unexpected find, but then again a lot of interesting things passed through Quesnel BC! I would think that BCR 738 (Ex "KENNECCOT COPPER CORPORATION") had not been on the property that long. Even though the sun was well on it's way down I took a couple pictures of it. The unit was not leading, so catching a picture of it at the head end was out of the question.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	BC Rail
Date:	04-12-1988
Location:	Quesnel
Province:	British Columbia

5 Comments | 10 Favourites

The picture of BCR 1801 was taken in the summer of 1988. At the time it was the rear car on the rail grinder. When I first saw the van I thought end platforms would be a great place to set up some lawn chairs and watch the world go by. In the picture you can see what looks like a propane tank sitting on the van's platform with a hose running down the side of the van to the fuel car in front of it. The van seems larger than normal so exactly how the railway employed it I'm not sure.

Name:	J W Booth
Railway:	BC Rail
Date:	00-00-1988
Location:	Quesnel
Province:	British Columbia

2 Comments | 9 Favourites

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