First passenger train out of Newport - PGE
- CA SQPL 26-021
- December 9, 1913
First passenger train out of Newport - PGE
First locomotive to come up Howe Sound to Norton & McKinnon logging operation
Left to right: Tommy Dickenson (book keeper), George Percy (superintendent), Pete Olsen (hooktender), Al Lund (head high rigger). Taken in 1927 where South Park apartments now stand.
Engine - 50 ton wood burning shay later converted to oil burner. First locomotive to come up Howe Sound to Norton & McKinnon logging operation. Acquired by Merrill & Ring for fire damage to Merrill & Ring timber when Norton McKinnon had a bad fire. Loco taken out of Squamish to other Merrill & Ring operations and came back to Squamish in late 1927 or early 1927. Shark arrester smoke stack loco.
Information supplied by Ed Aldridge.
Photo by: Bun Yarwood.
In 1911, McKinnon and Norton of the Newport Timber Company were logging in Squamish in the area known as the base camp road, near Curly Lews' place. They had donkeys, a large shay engine, and a weird whistle. Mr McKinnon was a bartender and Mr Norton was a logger. Amedy Levesque and George Laviolette worked as brakemen on the locomotive. The camp was run by Mr Fuller.
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Laying steel over Merrill & Ring Mud Creek Bridge
Laying steel over Merrill & Ring Mud Creek Bridge, 1927 (now called "Ring Creek").
Photo by: Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
Garibaldi passenger car "junked" in North Yards in 1959. Use began again in 1974 with Royal Hudson.
Additional information from Trevor Mills, 01/2012: The PGE Garibaldi car was never used on the Royal Hudson train. The one on the Royal Hudson train was a CPR car that is owned by the Railway Museum in town and can be seen at West Coast Railway Heritage Park.
Photo by: H. Brightbill
Brightbill, Harry
First full train of logs going south
First full train of logs going south through "Old Camp" on way to dump. Merrill and Ring 0-4-0 14 ton plymouth gas locomotive.
Left to right: Bun Yarwood, ?, Big Dave Thompson, Al Lund, ?, Bill Tourcotte, ?.
May 1927.
Photo by Ed Aldridge.
Aldridge, Ed
Fred Downer with Howe Sound & Northern Railway's first locomotive
PGE's inaugural train to Squamish
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
The original photograph was recorded to be from August 28, 1956 and pictured Premier W.A.C. Bennet on the far right.
Additional information from Trevor Mills, 01/2012: This photo is to early for 1956 as the original caption says. The use of sides on a flat car to carry people was outlawed by 1956. The caboose behind the engine had been scrapped by this time. The first run to Squamish was pulled by diesels and not steam. Trevor Mills' father, PGE locomotive engineer Bert Mills who came to Squamish in 1954 following employment with the CPR after arriving from England in 1948. was on the train. This was probably the first through train to Lillooet in 1915. The premier at the time was James McBride.
Fred Downer in front of the 2 spot in 1914
PGE 55 locomotive at Alta Lake
Left to right: Hector McLean, Ed Aldridge, Henry Jensen. At Rainbow Lodge.
Passenger train - February 1914
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Howe Sound & Northern Railway's first locomotive
PGE construction, Lillooet 1927
Part of Squamish Valley Museum (Brightbill House) Photograph Collection
Left to right: Mr and Mrs J. Johnson with daughter, Joe Confortin's brother and family.
Angus McCrae, locomotive engineer
Angus McRae, a locomotive engineer standing on his locomotive (Engine No. 59) with two engines pushing behind clearing the track. Picture taken about 4 miles above Swift Creek.
Picture of the snowplow on Engine No. 59
Picture taken at 19 mile bridge, 4 miles above Swift Creek. Circa 1930.
Joe Confortin's brother and family in front of engine
Part of Unknown Photograph Collection
Joe Confortin's brother and family posing in front of a train engine decorated with flags. The women on the left are Mrs J. Johnson and Mrs M. Hurren.
Located behind the present day Kaos Kids store (where Pharmasave used to be), the kitty corner to Fields. Logs used to be unloaded here. Picture taken in 1920.
Squamish Advance: Thursday, August 23, 1951
Part of Historical Newspaper Archive
TOT NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH
SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED BY SCHOOL BOARD
SCHOOL BUILDING SHOWING PROGRESS
LOSES FOREARM IN RAIL MISHAP
IMPROVEMENTS TO LOCAL STREETS
ANGLICAN CHURCH IS RENOVATED
ELKS NEW HOME MOVED TO SITE
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
CUCKOO CLOCK HOUSE HEARD OVER CBC
[PHOTO]
BRACKENDALE
FORMER LOCAL GIRL IS TENNIS STAR
CLASSIFIED ADS
BILL HERBERT
[PHOTO]
TO COVER ROYAL TOUR
SUNSHINE SOCIETY HEARD DAILY OVER CBC
[PHOTO]
KNEES TAKE BEATING
BOARD OF TRADE VISITS CHALET
MURIEL MILLARD
[PHOTO]
HEARD OVER CBC
Squamish Advance
Train from Prince George arrives