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Canadian Railways in Pictures by Robert F. Legget 1984 First Paperback ED
Canadian Railways in Pictures By Robert F. Legget Soft Cover
96 Pages
Copyright 1977 by Robert F. Legget
First Paperback published 1984
…Captures the Adventure, Heroism, industry and achievement of an era long ago. The Ottawa Citizen.
Few countries in the world have a history of railroading to match Canada's for daring, imagination and engineering achievement. And few countries owe as much to the development of rail transportation. In this handsome volume, a distinguished researcher with an eye for human as well as technical detail has produced a rich visual history of Canada's railways.
Contents
Acknowledgments 6
Sources of
Photographs 6
Introduction 7
The
Beginnings 8
Early Days
in Eastern Canada 14
Building the
Canadian Pacific 21
Other
Western Railroad Building 27
Winter
Conditions 32
Railways and
Waterways 36
Bridges and
Tunnels 43
Royal and
Other Special Trains 50
Unusual
Loads and Functions 55
Steam at the
Turn of the Century 59
Some
Visitors 67
Northern and
Other Lines 70
Railways and
Cities
73
The Great
Days of Steam 78
Railways of
Today 90
THE RAILWAYS OF CANADA today span the country from Atlantic to Pacific, from the U.S. border to the Arctic and the shores of Hudson Bay. Almost all of the more than 40,000 miles of operating lines are single track, because of the limited traffic, but the double-track Montreal-Toronto-Sarnia line, leading to Chicago, is one of the great "main lines" of North America. The nation-wide system is operated by about two dozen companies, Canadian Pacific accounting for about one third of the total and Canadian National Railways
for just over one half. Total mileage has not changed significantly in the last 40 years, new lines replacing those abandoned, but from 1870 to 1920, after a slow start following 1836, there was steady extension of railways across the land. Building of the CPR to the west coast was but a part of this; construction of the Intercolonial (now CNR) from Halifax to Montreal preceded the CPR by more than ten years. This book presents a sampling of the photographic record so fortunately available of this great story.
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