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Along the Line


Snow slide(A34925)

The locomotive of CPR passenger train awaits rescue after being buried by a snow slide in Eagle Pass near Three Valley, BC.

Date: 1935
Artist/Photographer: C.R. Macdonald
Source: Canadian Pacific Archives, R.A. Panter collection
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Quintette Tunnels(NS7865)

The Quintette Tunnels on the former Kettle Valley Railway line through the Coquihalla Canyon.

Date: c.1916
Artist/Photographer:
Source: Canadian Pacific Archives
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Buffalo bones(A7631)

Buffalo bones, gathered from the prairies and recycled into agricultural fertilizer, provided an early source of freight revenue for CPR.

Date: 1890s
Artist/Photographer: Trueman & Caple
Source: Canadian Pacific Archives, O. Lavallée collection
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Snow plow(NS3890)

A locomotive-propelled plow battles its way through drifting snow on a CPR line north of Toronto. Severe blizzards paralyzed much of the Algoma area and southern Ontario in the winter of 1942-43.

Date: 1943
Artist/Photographer:
Source: Canadian Pacific Archives
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Fraser River Canyon(A1724)

This ballast pit supplied gravel and sand for track construction and maintenance along the CPR line near Keefers, BC, in the Fraser River Canyon.

Date: c.1892
Artist/Photographer: Boorne & May
Source: Canadian Pacific Archives
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