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MacMillan Bloedel & Powell River Ltd. No. 1077 is a 2-6-2 "Prairie" type steam locomotive built in December 1923. The engine was retired in 1969 and was restored in 1985,making it her first restoration. In 1986, the engine participated at SteamExpo 86 in Vancouver,British Columbia. In 1990, the engine had a major overhaul,making it the second ...
Pages in category "Paddle steamers of British Columbia" ... Wilson G. Hunt (sidewheeler) ... This page was last edited on 14 December 2020, ...
Hunt arrived in Victoria in the middle of August, 1858. [16] Because there was a shortage of British vessels, the colonial government at Victoria had decided to license American steamers to move the resultant gold rush traffic up the river. [10] and ran for a short time on the New Westminster route.
No. 1 was a passenger car from 1900 to 1916 and a baggage car from 1917 to 1936. No. 4 put on display at Skagway, Alaska in 1971. No. 1 and three other cars are at Taku, British Columbia. The remaining car is at Scotia Bay, British Columbia. All in deteriorated condition. Numbers no longer visible. 479, 481, and 484 to 490 (9 cars) Container ...
Marion somewhere in inland British Columbia ca 1890. The first steamboat on the route was the Forty-Nine, built to service a brief gold rush on the Big Bend of the Columbia River, attempting the run from Marcus, Washington Territory, just above Kettle Falls, to La Porte, one of the main boomtowns of the rush, which was sited at the foot of the infamous and also impassable Dalles des Morts or ...
Chilco and crew with Frank Swannell's workers (1910). Twelve paddlewheel steamboats plied the upper Fraser River in British Columbia from 1863 until 1921. They were used for a variety of purposes: working on railroad construction, delivering mail, promoting real estate in infant townsites and bringing settlers in to a new frontier.
Victoria, British Columbia John H. Todd 716 147 feet (44.8 m) Originally owned by Canadian Development Co. Acquired by WP&YR in 1901. Last used in 1927. Placed as riprap in Yukon River at Whitehorse, Yukon in 1931. Machinery recovered from river in 1997. - Most likely, named for the British Columbia, Canada gold rushes of 1850 and 1861. [8] 1st ...
The Kootenay Central Railway (KCR) was a CP subsidiary. The northward advance of the rail head from Colvalli [59] was near Fort Steele in August 1914. [60] That November, the last spike was driven near the north end of Columbia Lake. [61] Through train service commenced in January 1915. [62] In 1931, the twice weekly service was reduced to once ...