Rails Across The Rockies
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Rails Across The Rockies
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Author : Graeme Pole
language : en
Publisher: Mountain Vision Publishing
Release Date : 2006-06-15
Rails Across The Rockies written by Graeme Pole and has been published by Mountain Vision Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-15 with Transportation categories.
With 54 black and white photographs and maps, Rails Across the Rockies tells the stories of the surveying and construction of the Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk Pacific, and Canadian Northern railways in the glory days of Canadian railroading. The construction of the Canadian Pacific, the Grand Trunk Pacific, and the Canadian Northern railways rank among the greatest political and financial gambles in Canada’s history. Politicians, engineers, and surveyors bickered and scrapped for years over why, how, and where to locate the rails. Each of the enterprises helped to stitch the country together physically while threatening to tear it apart politically. Great Railways of the Canadian West tells the stories of the scheming and the daring, and the monumental physical toil of laying steel across the mountains in the golden age of railroading in Canada.
Spectacular Light
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Author : Graeme Pole
language : en
Publisher: Altitude Publishing (Canada)
Release Date : 2007-03
Spectacular Light written by Graeme Pole and has been published by Altitude Publishing (Canada) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03 with Railroads categories.
Rails In The Canadian Rockies
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Author : Adolf Hungrywolf
language : en
Publisher: Invermere, B.C. : Good Medicine Books
Release Date : 1980
Rails In The Canadian Rockies written by Adolf Hungrywolf and has been published by Invermere, B.C. : Good Medicine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with British Columbia History categories.
Gravity Steam And Steel
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Author : Graeme Pole
language : en
Publisher: Mountain Vision Publishing
Release Date : 2022-12-19
Gravity Steam And Steel written by Graeme Pole and has been published by Mountain Vision Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-19 with Transportation categories.
In 1882, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company committed to building Canada’s first trans-continental railway across unknown ground in the Selkirk Mountains of southern British Columbia. It was a gamble that almost scuttled the project and the promise of the young country. During the next three years, a small army of surveyors, engineers, and labourers cleared the grade and built track across Rogers Pass—the only break in the Selkirk Mountains—a place that defined wilderness. Trestles, tunnels, snowsheds, bridges, and miles of looping track—the Canadian Pacific Railway has since employed them all to reduce the dangers and to make railway operations in Rogers Pass safer and more reliable. Gravity, Steam, and Steel recounts the triumphs and tragedies of building and operating a railway in a place where 40 feet of snow falls each year, and where trains routinely run on grades that many other railways would consider impossibly steep.
Railway Map Guide
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Author : Way of the Rail Publishing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-07
Railway Map Guide written by Way of the Rail Publishing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07 with Travel categories.
This full-colour souvenir map guide covers everything you'll need to know along the way, including railway signals and signs. It identifies 300 points of interest and over 200 majestic mountains. Find world-renowned routes the Rocky Mountaineer and the Whistler Mountaineer, as well as VIA Rail routes the Canadian and the Skeena.
Rails Across America
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Rails Across America written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Transportation categories.
An overview of railroads in the United States and Canada from the 1830s to the present day.
Rails Over The Mountains
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Author : Ron Brown
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2016-07-09
Rails Over The Mountains written by Ron Brown and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-09 with Transportation categories.
Explore western Canada’s rich railway history, travelling from the grand railway hotels and rustic stations to the creative engineering that created spiral bridges and soaring trestles. Relive this time through a trip on one of the many steam trains, visit a railway museum, or walk the trails where trains used to rumble.
Railway Map Guide British Columbia Canadian Rockies
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Author : Chris Hanus
language : en
Publisher: Way of the Rail Publishing
Release Date : 2003-05
Railway Map Guide British Columbia Canadian Rockies written by Chris Hanus and has been published by Way of the Rail Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05 with Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.) categories.
The British Columbia and Canadian Rockies Railway Map Guide is the definitive reference to the spectacular passenger railway routes across British Columbia and western Alberta. This full-colour, souvenir map guide follows the present and historical mileposts of the legendary passenger railway routes of Canada's rugged, mountainous, far west. These are the historic railways that opened Canada's west to settlement. In this map you'll find:
All Aboard
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Author : David Joseph Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Release Date : 1995
All Aboard written by David Joseph Mitchell and has been published by Motorbooks International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Transportation categories.
The exciting story of the epic feat of contracting and operating rail lines through the spectacular Rocky Mountains -- with 60 historic doutone photos of the drama of railroading in days gone by and 42 pages of colour photos that display the scenic grandeur.
Rails Around Durango
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Author : Allan C. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2006
Rails Around Durango written by Allan C. Lewis and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
In the 1880s, the Denver & Rio Grande began building its three-foot railroad toward the San Juan Mountains alongside the Animas River and the budding community of Durango. The D&RG quickly established itself in Durango, constructing a depot as well as a 45-mile connection to the regional mining hub of Silverton. Over 60 years, the towns, the railroad, and the mines it served would weather plummeting silver values and a turbulent economy. By the end of World War II, declining freight volumes left the future of the railroad in doubt, but by the late 1940s, a growing number of train enthusiasts were journeying to Durango for one last ride. The new popularity of the Silverton Branch brought rail fans to the area in increasing numbers through the 1950s. Today the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad continues to preserve the region's railroading past and has become a unique aspect of the history of Southwestern Colorado.