Famous Name Trains by David Laurence Jones Traveling in style with the CPR w DJ
Famous Name Trains by David Laurence Jones Traveling in style with the CPR w DJ
Famous Name Trains by David Laurence Jones Traveling in style with the CPR w DJ
Famous Name Trains by David Laurence Jones Traveling in style with the CPR w DJ
Famous Name Trains by David Laurence Jones Traveling in style with the CPR w DJ
Famous Name Trains by David Laurence Jones Traveling in style with the CPR w DJ
Famous Name Trains by David Laurence Jones Traveling in style with the CPR w DJ
Famous Name Trains by David Laurence Jones Traveling in style with the CPR w DJ
Famous Name Trains by David Laurence Jones Traveling in style with the CPR w DJ
Famous Name Trains by David Laurence Jones Traveling in style with the CPR w DJ

Famous Name Trains by David Laurence Jones Traveling in style with the CPR w DJ

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Famous Name Trains by David Laurence Jones Traveling in style with the CPR w DJ
 
Famous Name Trains by David Laurence Jones
Traveling in style with the CPR
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
178 pages
Copyright 2006
CONTENTS
Foreword - vi
Acknowledgements - viii
Preface-
CHAPTER ONE - 1                                                                                                                               
The Pacific Express
CHAPTER TWO - 23                                                                                                                               
On the World's Finest Route
CHAPTER THREE - 45                                                                                                                         
The Imperial Limited
CHAPTER FOUR - 63                                                                                                                   
Parisian Politeness
CHAPTER FIVE - 81                                                                                                                                
The Trans-Canada Limited
CHAPTER SIX - 103                                                                                                                      
Cruising the Inland Seas
CHAPTER SEVEN - 127                                                                                                                          
The Canadian
CHAPTER EIGHT - 145                                                                                                                         
Grey Stone Castles and Glass Houses
CHAPTER NINE - 169                                                                                                                            
The Royal Canadian Pacific
Index -176
About the Author- 178
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION:
In Famous Name Trains David Laurence Jones describes both the practical interiors of the early colonist cars with their communal sleeping arrangements and wooden bench seats, and the luxury of the higher-end cars that looked and felt like rolling men's clubs with wooden veneers, plush carpets, and upholstered chairs. He tracks the evolution of the passenger train, paying particular attention to the virtues of the elegant dining cars on the name trains, and the gastronomic delights that were served to their patrons.
Although Jones's focus is the CPR's name trains and their cars, he also discusses other CPR enterprises that fed into and contributed to the railway. These included the dining halls and mountain chalets built at railway divisional points across the country, the rustic bungalow camps operated both in Ontario and within the Canadian Rockies, and the CPR's iron steamships that sailed the Great Lakes, connecting with the trains that were integral to travel in Canada.
Although this country's love affair with rail travel did not last forever-as Jones writes, for the railway "the future was freight"-readers of Famous Name Trains will be able to feel what it was like to travel in style with the CPR when Canada was new.

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