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Book Synopsis Rails Across the Rockies by : Graeme Pole
Download or read book Rails Across the Rockies written by Graeme Pole and published by Mountain Vision Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Spectacular Light written by Graeme Pole and published by Altitude Publishing (Canada). This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis All Aboard! by : David Joseph Mitchell
Download or read book All Aboard! written by David Joseph Mitchell and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 1995 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Rails Over the Mountains by : Ron Brown
Download or read book Rails Over the Mountains written by Ron Brown and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-07-09 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Rio Grande Through the Rockies by : Mike Danneman
Download or read book Rio Grande Through the Rockies written by Mike Danneman and published by Kalmbach Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large black and white photos and detailed route maps show how this gutsy railroad worked through the Rockies, rather than navigating around them. Shows one of the most scenic stretches of North American railroading ever engineered.
Book Synopsis Narrow Gauge in the Rockies by : Lucius Morris Beebe
Download or read book Narrow Gauge in the Rockies written by Lucius Morris Beebe and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a nostalgic 100 year Journey through the Rocky Mountains aboard the narrow gauge railways that snaked through them.
Author :Adolf Hungrywolf Publisher :Invermere, B.C. : Good Medicine Books ISBN 13 :9780920698341 Total Pages :368 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (983 download)
Book Synopsis Rails in the Canadian Rockies by : Adolf Hungrywolf
Download or read book Rails in the Canadian Rockies written by Adolf Hungrywolf and published by Invermere, B.C. : Good Medicine Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis When Trains Ruled the Rockies by : Terry Gainer
Download or read book When Trains Ruled the Rockies written by Terry Gainer and published by Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Trains Ruled the Rockies is a personal history of the Banff train station from 1948 through 1962. Drawn from Terry Gainer's personal memories and experiences from his years living and working at the legendary Banff Railway Station, this entertaining memoir and important historical record beckons the reader into the golden age of railway travel in the mountains of western Canada. Complete with a selection of archival photographs, When Trains Ruled the Rockies documents life at the Banff Railway Station and traces the huge role the station played in the local community. The author's own story of growing up at the station winds a thread through the narrative and brings into clear focus Terry's lifelong passion for passenger trains, at one time the most dominant means of transportation for Canadians but sadly an experience that is now fading into history.
Book Synopsis In the Heart of the Rockies by : George Alfred Henty
Download or read book In the Heart of the Rockies written by George Alfred Henty and published by London : Blackie. This book was released on 1895 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1860, with both parents dead, sixteen-year-old Tom, anxious to find a way to care for his sisters, begins a two-year adventure of danger and exploration when he leaves his native England to join his Uncle Harry and seek his fortune in the Rocky Mountain wilderness of Colorado.
Book Synopsis Rio Grande: Mainline of the Rockies by : Lucius Morris Beebe
Download or read book Rio Grande: Mainline of the Rockies written by Lucius Morris Beebe and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of many of the most famous railroad photographers is represented in hundreds of illustrations that went into this multifaceted portrait of the line's development.
Book Synopsis Rails Around Durango by : Allan C. Lewis
Download or read book Rails Around Durango written by Allan C. Lewis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Rails Across America written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of railroads in the United States and Canada from the 1830s to the present day.
Book Synopsis Gulf To Rockies by : Richard C. Overton
Download or read book Gulf To Rockies written by Richard C. Overton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gulf to Rockies is a chapter in the business and economic history of the American West and the story of two of the most colorful railroad builders of the nineteenth century. Throughout the 1860s the mineral treasures of Colorado were virtually inaccessible for lack of railroads. Even after a hectic decade of building in the 1870s, the state faced a new sort of isolation: every railroad crossing her borders was controlled by the Union Pacific or the Santa Fe. As a result, the Rocky Mountain region could not hope to compete with the Midwest for the business of the Atlantic seaboard. To remedy this situation, John Evans, former governor of Colorado, organized in 1881 a railroad to run southward from Denver as the first link in a cheap rail-water route via the Gulf of Mexico to the East. Meanwhile ambitious Fort Worth citizens had incorporated the Fort Worth and Denver City in 1873. Not a rail was laid on either road, however, until General Grenville M. Dodge, famed builder of the Union Pacific and the Texas Pacific, took up the Texas project and joined forces with Evans to create the Gulf-to-Rockies route. It took seven years for these men and their associates to mobilize funds and complete the Fort Worth–Denver line, and another decade to establish the system’s independence and solve its financial problems in the face of drought, depression, and intense competition. Gulf to Rockies was written under special agreements with Northwestern University and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, whereby the university relieved Mr. Overton of a part of his duties in order that he might have time for research and writing and the railroad undertook to bear the cost of the research. The Burlington also permitted him free access to all company records and granted him unrestricted freedom to publish his findings.
Book Synopsis Rails to the Rockies by : Gregory LePak
Download or read book Rails to the Rockies written by Gregory LePak and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canada by Train written by Chris Hanus and published by Way of the Rail Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VIA Rail, Canada's national passenger train service, makes visiting this breathtaking country a truly memorable journey. Canada by Train is the complete guidebook to train travel with VIA Rail. Full of useful facts and vivid photographs, this guide provides current, comprehensive details on train services and safety measures. The guide features over 500 full-color illustrations and photographs; updated information on schedules, fares and pass options; mile-by-mile route guides; practical suggestions on traveling light, settling in sleepers and coaches; and more.--From publisher description.
Book Synopsis Nothing Like It In the World by : Stephen E. Ambrose
Download or read book Nothing Like It In the World written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Book Synopsis Moon Canadian Rockies by : Andrew Hempstead
Download or read book Moon Canadian Rockies written by Andrew Hempstead and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada resident and avid outdoorsman Andrew Hempstead knows the best way to experience the Canadian Rockies, from rafting on the Bow River and hiking Lake O'Hara to staying in a remote log cabin. Hempstead includes unique trip ideas such as "A Week Under the Stars" and "Exploring the Canadian Rockies with Children." Packed with information on dining, transportation, and accommodations, Moon Canadian Rockies has lots of options for a range of travel budgets. Every Moon guidebook includes recommendations for must-see sights and many regional, area, and city-centered maps. Complete with details on escaping the crowds at Lake Louise, viewing wildlife at Moraine, or dining in Banff, Moon Canadian Rockies gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience. With expert writers, first-rate strategic advice, and an essential dose of humor, Moon guidebooks are the cure for the common trip.
