This sub-series (formerly sub-series D I) contains images by photographers and studios such as Macaulay Studio; Wide World Photos; Pesha Photos; Photo Lavoie of Rimouski, Quebec; J.W. Bald of Midland, Ontario; Notman & Son, Montreal; John Boyd of Toronto, Ontario; W.B. Edwards, and Wilson Studio of St. John, Quebec; Young's Studio, Michigan; Haywards Studios, Montreal; Witbeck Photo Service; H.M. Bowman of Rochester, New York; Leon Van Patten, Dr. Sornberger ? and F.W. Micklethwaite of Toronto, Ontario; Zweifel-Roleff Studio of Duluth, Michigan; Thomas Norrell; "P.H. Dudley's Stremmatograph Records", MacArthur Studio of Iowa; Airmaps Limited, Toronto and Montreal; Hamilton Studio, Ward Davidson of Montreal; Bruce Sifford of Minnesota; Norman James, and Frank Yeigh of Toronto; Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Photo, J.V. Salmon of Willowdale, Ontario; and by anonymous creators.
The content consists largely of views of American and Canadian steam locomotives and train cars. Canadian railway views include Canadian National; Canadian Northern; Central Ontario; Canadian Pacific; Montreal & Atlantic; Edmonton, Dunvegan & British Columbia; Grand Trunk Pacific; Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo; Temiskaming & Northern Ontario; Temiscouata; Canadian Johns Manville Company Limited; Sydney & Louisbourg; Ottawa & Gatineau Valley; Canada Eastern; Victoria & Sydney; Winnipeg & Pacific; Newfoundland Railway; New Brunswick Railway; Quebec Central; Intercolonial; Quebec North Shore & Labrador; Sydney Collieries Railway; "The Black Giant, Canada's first steam logger"; and various other private firms.
Views of U.S. railways include Central Vermont Railway; Chesapeake & Ohio Railway; Imperial Oil Limited; Kanawha & Michigan Railway; New York Central Lines; Michigan Central; Canadian Pacific & New Jersey; Boston & Ohio; Philadelphia Reading; Delaware & Hudson; Pere Marquette Railway; International Railway; Pennsylvania Lines; New York, New Haven & Hartford; Midland Railway; Rutland Railway; Boston & Albany; Tennessee Railway; Mexican & Central American; Boston & Maine; Lake Shore & Michigan Southern; Pullman, and various other USA Railways, some built by Davenport Locomotives Works of Iowa; General American Transportation Corporation, Grenville Steel Car Company, Pa.; National Steel Car Corporation Limited, Hamilton, Ontario.
Other views of Canadian railroads included in the sub-series; Toronto Electric Railway; Abitibi Power & Paper Company Limited; Canadian National; Montreal Southern; Ottawa Electric Street Car, Peterborough; Dominion Atlantic Railway; Canada & Gulf Terminal; Hydro Electric Power; Edmonton Interurban Railway; Quebec Light & Power Company; Hopital St. Jean de Dieu Railway; Montreal Street Railway; Montreal Park & Island Railway Company; Montreal Terminal Railway; Montreal Tramways Company; Moncton Street Railway Company Saint-John Railway; Newfoundland Light & Power Company; Halifax Electric Company; Manitoba North Western; Northern Alberta; Canadian National; Canadian Pacific. Other examples of American railways include Lehigh Valley Railway; Albany & Hudson; Lake Erie & Northern Railway; Grand Valley Railway; Aroostook Valley, plus many other private company locomotives.
There are also views of American and Canadian diesel and electric locomotives including snowplows and shovels, and interiors and exteriors of a variety of train car types, some with information attached (including blueprints of construction). Other railroad-related views include the staff and business of John T. Gartshore Railway Equipment (1964); an album of steam locomotives being built at Lima Locomotive Works Incorporated, ca.1946; photos of scale drawings of Canadian National engines; group of steam locomotives from an album showing engines by date from 1825-1943;
Other forms of land transportation depicted include buses, trucks, automobiles, road rollers, heavy equipment, and motor coaches of various private companies, delivery trucks from across Canada and a few places in the United States from ca. 1910 to 1960. Some built by: Dominion Coach & Levery Company, Toronto; Toronto Transportation Company; Montreal Plant Department Automobile; and Gray Coach Lines. There are also various types of horse-drawn delivery wagons, carts, carioles, stage coaches, milk wagon, sleighs, funeral coach, many from the T. Eaton Company Limited and fire department engines of the Toronto Fire Department, Beaverton Fire Department, and Cranbrook, Kenora, Fort Saskatchewan, Hamilton, and Almonte departments.
Additionally there are views of steamers and other marine vessels including tugs, dredges, ocean liners, freighters, sailing ships, car and train ferries often identifiable by name, sometimes arranged alphabetically, sometimes further information is present on reverse of prints. Examples of Canadian and American marine companies included in the sub-series are Colonial Steamships Limited; Canadian Atlantic Transit Company; Arrow Steamships Limited of Toronto; Minnesota Steamships Company; Algoma Central Steamships Line; Imperial Steamers; Canada Steamship Lines; plus other firms in various Canadian canals and ports. Examples of Canadian ships include the S.S. Noronic; S.S. W. Grant Morgan; M.V. Normac; S.S. Northumberland; S.S. North Shore; S.S. Chicora; S.S. Chippewa; S.S. Corona; S.S. Canada; S.S. Olympic; S.S. Ascana; S.S. Scythia; S.S. Mauretania; S.S. Antonia; and the S.S. Berengaria. There are also views of Montreal and Quebec harbours, the Welland Canal (including construction), and war ships and crew photographs, ca.1944.
Miscellaneous views in this sub-series include factory views Canada Iron Furnace Company Limited of Midland, Ontario; various architectural views at Midland and Toronto, Ontario and Quebec province; city views of Toronto, Petrolia, Midland, Kingston, Quebec and various other Canadian cities and towns; miscellaneous news photos, ca. 1930; farm scenes; unidentified portraits; lumbering scenes; views of sod houses, and the wreckage of Upper Steel Arch Bridge, Niagara Falls, 1938.
