Rails Over the Mountains (eBook)

Exploring the Railway Heritage of Canada's Western Mountains

Ron Brown (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
160 Seiten
Dundurn (Verlag)
978-1-4597-3357-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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Journey through the engineering marvels, stations, and heritage sites of Canada’s western mountains.

Ride the rails through Canada’s western mountains to explore the many vestiges of the region’s spectacular and surprising railway heritage. Here is where grand railway hotels were built to attract tourists to the West’s beautiful scenery and bring profit to the railway lines as well. Rustic stations added to the allure. The challenges of conquering the mountains resulted in some of Canada’s most ingenious feats of engineering, such as spiral tunnels and soaring trestles (one of which was featured in The Amazing Race Canada).

Relive the days of rail on a steam train, the luxurious Rocky Mountaineer, or one of VIA Rail’s mountain journeys. Outdoor enthusiasts can follow the abandoned roadbeds of Canada’s more spectacular rail trails, like the legendary Kettle Valley Railway. Also included are some of Canada’s most extensive railway museums, which have helped to bring this vanished era back to life.

Autor

Ron Brown is a geographer and travel author of more than twenty books, including Rails to the Atlantic, The Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, and Back Roads of Ontario. He is past chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada and leads tours of Ontario’s unusual sights. He lives in Toronto.

Inhalt

Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Mountain Barrier

1 The Rails Arrive
2 Conquering the Mountains: The Tunnels and Bridges
3 The Faces of the Railways: The Heritage Railway Stations
4 Life Along the Line: The Railway Towns
5 The Dream Castles: Western Canada's Railway Hotels
6 Railway Structures: A Forgotten Heritage
7 Celebrating the Heritage: The Railway Museums
8 The Rail Trails
9 All Aboard

Appendix
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.7.2016
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 200 x 200 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Schlagworte: Ghost Towns • heritage train stations • Last Spike • Myra Canyon trestles • rail trails • railway history • railway museums • railway tunnels • Rocky Mountaineer • Rocky Mountains • Roundhouse community centre • scenic driving • Spiral Tunnels • steam trains • tour trains • VIA Rail
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-3357-6 / 1459733576
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-3357-2 / 9781459733572