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Canadian Pacific stand fast, Craigellachie! By Greg McDonnell W/ dust jacket
Canadian Pacific stand fast, Craigellachie! By Greg McDonnell Has library stamps on first pages, edgetitle pageetc.
Hard cover with dust jacket
239 pages
Foreword
PrefaceStand fast!
Dedication
No One Said It Would Be Easy
The World's Greatest Travel System
Electric Lines
Stand Fast, Craigellachie!
Sweating the Assets
Twenty-Eight Sixteen
Lest We Forget
Not Fade Away
Afterword O.S. Orrs Lake
Foreword
his book covers a subject near and dear to my heart-Canadian Pacific Railway.
And the book highlights my favourite topics.
It begins with a most appropriate lead-in- a dedication to CPR's most precious asset: its employees. Yesterday's and today's employees have been and continue to be engaged in making CPR a safe and significant enterprise on the road ahead to continuous improvement. This company is more than tracks, cars and locomotives. It's people. And it is these people who make it work so well.
The book celebrates the Scottish heritage of the company -a heritage I proudly share with CPR's founding fathers.
The charity and outreach initiatives of CPR Empress-steam locomotive No. 2816-and the Holiday Train underscore the company's concern and care for humanity and the communities in which CPR operates.
And stopping every single train on the system, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, is a fitting way to pay tribute, not only to CPR veterans who lost their lives in world conflicts, but to all who made the ultimate sacrifice. As I write this on the 59th anniversary of Canadian troops landing at Juno Beach on D-Day, I feel the same strength of conviction as I did the first Remembrance Day, in 1999, CPR stopped every single wheel on the system from turning. This was something that had not been done on the CPR for 84 years, when, in September 1915, CPR marked the passing of its railway building general-William Cornelius Van Horne.
Sweating the assets in innovative ways gave birth to the Royal Canadian Pacific. What better way to preserve, enhance and optimize the use of an elite fleet of 1920s business cars, that saw only episodic use, than to make them available for special charters and upscale excursions.
This winter was particularly rough. Harsh weather-snow and extreme cold-stressed our track and caused a few derailments. Ed Dodge and I were struggling with these problems the first weekend in February, and how to get our railway back to optimum service. We took a break from the stress and set our minds on naming the two newly refurbished Royal Canadian Pacific (RCP) cars about to enter service. We thought of Canadian Pacific, its history and its heritage. And what better way to evoke all that than to recall the clan Grant's rallying point in the old Scottish county of Banffshire. Or to recall that day, November 7, 1885, when Donald Smith drove the last spike in the Monashee Mountains of British Columbia, at a place also named after that "rock of alarm" Craigellachie!
So the newly refurbished RCP 1926 sleeping car became the Banffshire, and the 1931 dining car was called the Craigellachie.
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