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Canadian Pacific's Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway Robert Turner Donald MacLachlan
The Canadian Pacifics Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway by Robert Turner and Donald MacLachlan
The CPR Steam Years 1905-1949
Hard cover with dust jacket
Copyright 2012
304 pages
The Canadian Pacifics Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway The CPR Steam Years 1905-1949 by Robert D Turner & Donald F MacLachlan
CONTENTS
PREFACE & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS7
PRELUDE:The Dunsmuir Years and the Land Grant, 1883-190514
CHAPTER 1: Canadian Pacific's Purchase and Early Upgrading of the E&N20
CHAPTER 2: Expansion in Victoria: The Songhees Lands, the Roundhouse and Shop Facilities68
CHAPTER 3: Extending the E&N and Operations to the 1920s 82
CHAPTER 4: Good Times and Hard Times, the 1920s and 1930s148
CHAPTER 5: Passenger Services in the 1920s and 1930s 206
CHAPTER 6: The Streets of Victoria, 1930s and 1940s232
CHAPTER 7: Steam's Last Decade, 1939-1949242
Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway Reflections274
APPENDIX I:The E&N's Steam Power, 1884-1949276
APPENDIX II: Parlour Cars, Observation Cars and Official Cars on the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway, 1905-1940s, and Passenger Car Notes 284
APPENDIX III: Passenger Steamships of the E&N Railway288
APPENDIX IV: Royal Visit Special Passenger Services, 1930289
SOURCES AND NOTES290
INDEX 295
MAPS & PLANS
Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway, Vancouver Island11
Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway Land Grant, 191316
The E&N's Albion Yard31
E&N Railway Proposed Yards on the Songhees Reserve, 190971
E&N Railway Roundhouse and Yards, 191374
Parksville106
Courtenay108
Courtenay and Campbell River Extension109
Cowichan Subdivision117
Duncan127
Jayem Transfer Yard and Wharf 159
Ladysmith and Transfer Wharf161
Great Central Subdivision and Port Alberni Subdivision, Western End166
Nanaimo216
In 1905 the Canadian Pacific Railway bought Vancouver Island's Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway from James Dunsmuir, the Island's coal baron. A new era began in the railway's history. The E&N quickly evolved from an isolated local enterprise to a prosperous part of the CPR system.
The CPR expanded its new railway in the years before World War I: northwards from Wellington, and then west to Port Alberni, giving the railway a Pacific port; north to
Courtenay and the rich forest lands and coal-mining districts of the east coast of Vancouver Island; and also, during those same busy years, into the heavily timbered Cowichan Valley to tap vast stands of old-growth forest.
The railway was the lifeline of Vancouver Island. It hauled timber, forest products, coal, strawberries, and nearly everything that sustained the Island's growing communities. Trains carried mail, express and thousands of passengers including soldiers leaving for two world wars. Beautiful parlour cars gave unsurpassed views of forested mountains, the E&N's enormous bridges, and pastoral villages or scenic coastlines.
The E&N's is very much a human story, and keeping the trains running in winter rain and snow challenged the hard-working crews. Change came in 1949, as the E&N became Canada's first railway to be dieselized, and the classic CPR steam locomotives were replaced. A new story, presented in a companion volume, began.
Here is a rich, captivating and beautifully illustrated story of a railway and the island it served for over half a century.
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