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Photo History of the Prince Edward Island Railway by Allan Graham Soft Cover
Photo History of the Prince Edward Island Railway by Allan Graham
Soft Cover
250 pages
Copyright 2001
CONTENTS
And in the beginning...
The Railway Bill of 1871 1
Celebrations over the Railway Bill 2
Opposition Expressed to the Railway Bill 3
The Bachelor Tax 4
The Call for Tenders 4
The Board of Railway Commissioners 4
The Awarding of the Contract 4
The Turning of the First Sod 5
The Route is Unveiled 5
Curves, Curves, Curves 6
Extensions to Tignish and Souris 6
Prince Edward Island Joins Canada 6
The First Excursion Train 7
The Contractors Haul Freight 7
The Patrick D. Cox Report 7
The Letter 8
The Travelling Train Clerk 8
the Official Opening of the P.E.I.R 8
Early Problems 8
The First Accident 9
The First Public Railway Excursions 9
P.E.I.R. Timetable No. 3, 1875 10
Snowfall Problems 11
The Stations on the P.E.I.R.:
The "Terminal" Stations 11
The "Way" or "Crossing" Stations 14
The "Flag" Stations 15
"Keepers" Stations 16
Other Stations 16
The Railway Helps Communities Grow 16
The Travelling Post Office 17
More Accidents in the 1870s 17
A Trip to Souris 19
Early Advertisements 19
Closing Vignettes from the 1870s 20
Disaster Strikes 20
Early Locomotives 21
More About Curves 23
The Smallpox Epidemic 23
The Cape Traverse Branch Line 23
The Subway 25
New Bridges 26
The Shops 26
The Sample Car 27
An Overview of the P.E.I.R. in 1887 27
The Forest Fires of 1889 27
The Kensington Explosion of 1889 28
Excursion Trains of the 1880s 28
Some Vignettes from the 1880s 29
Poster for Railway Employees' Picnic 1882 30
P.E.1.R. Timetable 1884 31
More Accidents in the 1880s 32
Early Cars on the Prince Edward Island Railway 33
Concerns about Railway Cars 33
Visit by the Maritime Press Association 33
More Bridges 33
Specials and Excursions in the 1890s 34
Straightening Curves 34
The Car Shops in the 1890s 35
Snow 36
The Harvest Excursions 36
The Send-off to the Boer War 37
Lunchroom in Ellerslie Station 37
More Early Narrow Gauge Engines 37
Accidents in the 1890s 38
Vignettes of the 1890s 39
The Departure of the Second Island Contingent 40
Crossing by Ice Boat 40
The Return from the Gathering of the Clans 41
The Return Trip from Souris 41
Stations with New Names 41
More Problems with Snow 41
The Car Shops - Old and New 42
Straightening More Curves 44
The Hillsborough Bridge 44
The Murray Harbor Branch Line 46
The Montague Branch Line 49
More Narrow Gauge Engines 50
Accidents 1900 - 1909 50
Vignettes 1900 - 1909 51
The Car Shops Build Their Last Passenger Car 53
Mussel Mud and the P.E.I. Railway 53
The Elmira Branch Line 54
The Development of Borden 54
The Standardization of the P.E.I.R. 56
The Short Line 57
Accidents 1910 - 1918 57
Vignettes 1910 - 1918 58
P.E.I.R. Timetable June 2, 1912 59
C.G.R. Timetable Jan. 27, 1918 60
The End of the Prince Edward Island Railway 62
The Use of Motor Cars on the P.E.I.R. and C.N 62
Canadian National Railways, Prince Edward Island Division...157
And in the end...249
ON THE BACK COVER
There's probably not a novel on the bookstore shelves with more intrigue and petty politics than the illustrious Prince Edward Island Railway. Follow the enthralling adventure from the rumors of its impending construction in the 1860s to its eventual abandonment on Dec. 28th, 1989. The author, whose father was a C.N.R. sectionman from 1920 to 1946, has been researching this history for over thirty years. It is a wonderfully illustrated history of the Prince Edward Island Railway, and its successor, Canadian National Railways. It provides the reader with a masterful chronicle of the events associated with the P.E.I.R. (1871-1918), based mainly on detailed newspaper accounts of the day. The C.N. years (1919-1989) are documented primarily through photographs taken by some of North America's best amateur and professional photographers.
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