Ron Brown, "Rails Over the Mountains: Exploring the Railway Heritage of Canada's Western Mountains"
English | ISBN: 1459733592 | 2016 | 160 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
English | ISBN: 1459733592 | 2016 | 160 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
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
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