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History of the Canadian National by Keith MacKenzie
History of the Canadian National by Keith MacKenzie
Hard cover with dust jacket (Dust jacket has damage and a plastic protective cover, name stamped inside front cover, light writing on facing page.
Copyright 1988
128 pages Indexed
The early years
The Building Blocks
The St Clair Tunnel
Canadas Railways enter the 20th century
CN Today
A New Era
The Business End The Railway
VIA Rail: Just for Passengers
Lines in the US The People
A New Image
Computers and Telecommunications The CN Tower
CN Hotels
CN on the Road CN Goes to Sea CN Real Estate TerraTransport
Looking Ahead
Index
The History of the Canadian National
When the tiny Champlain & St Lawrence Railroad Company made its first 23- mile run in Quebec in 1836, no one knew that Canada's giant of iron and steel-the Canadian National-would develop from these humble beginnings. CN's rails reach from the Yukon to the American Northeast, and from the shores of Quebec to Alaska and the Arctic Circle. Its history is the history of the men and women who settled the mountains, Maritimes, plains and territories of the vast country of Canada.
The history of CN is one of innovation. In the 1880s, CN was instrumental in the opening of Northwest routes to the Pacific, thus paving the way for trade with the Far East. One hundred years later, the company introduced the Draper Taper, a new generation of diesel locomotive-a far cry from the Dorchester steam locomotive imported from England that made that first 1836 jaunt!
This lavishly illustrated book tells CN's ory-really the story of the development f Canada. It is a great addition to the brary of any aficionado of North America's great railroads.
Front cover: As CN Rail's grain-hauling locomotive number 5308 roars across the bridge over Anderson Creek in the Fraser River Canyon, one can almost see the ghosts of the locomotives of a century ago, which carried goods and foodstuffs to the pioneer families who depended so much on the railroad.
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