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Narrow Gauge Railways Of Canada By Omer Lavallee DJ
Narrow Gauge Railways Of Canada By Omer Lavallee
Copyright 1972
112 pages
Hard cover with Dust Jacket (damage)
Copyright 1972
112 Pages
CONTENTS
Dedication 3
Foreword 4
Narrow Gauge Introduction 6
1: Lingan Colliery Tramway 10
2: Toronto & Nipissing Railway Company 12
3: Toronto, Grey & Bruce Railway Company 14
4: Glasgow & Cape Breton Coal & Railway Company 16
5: New Brunswick Railway 18
6: Prince Edward Island Railway 20
7: Gowrie Colliery Tramway 26
8: Lake Champlain & St. Lawrence Junction Railway Company 27
9: Newfoundland Railway 30
10: Other Railways in Newfoundland 38
11: Alberta Lines 42
12: Lake Temiscamingue Colonization Railway Company 47
13: Monfort Colonization Railway 48
Profiles of Narrow Gauge Railways 50
14: Kaslo & Slocan Railway Company 51
15: Trail Creek Tramway 54
16: White Pass & Yukon Route 56
17: Huntsville, Lake of Bays & Lake Simcoe Railway & Navigation Company 64
18: Klondike Mines Railway 68
19: Lenora Mount Sicker Copper Company 72
20: St. John's Street Railway Company 73
21: Lake Louise Tramway 76
22: Windsor Electric Street Railway Company 80
23: Animal Powered Municipal Railways 82
Appendix I - Chronologies/Mileages/Rosters 85
Appendix II - Time/Mileage Charts 112
Narrow Gauge Railways of Canada is a "survey course" about one of the most interesting chapters in Canadian railway history.
To many North Americans, the words "narrow gauge" mean mountain and back-woods railroading in the mariner of Maine and Colorado operations.
But Canada actually still possesses North America's largest network of narrow gauge lines in its three remaining common carrier systems. Canadian National Railways' Newfoundland lines, the White Pass & Yukon Route, and the Grand Falls Central.
Omer Lavallee's survey indicates the Province of Ontario, Canada, was the birth place - in July 1871 of the rust narrow gauge steam-operated public railway in North America. And the Lingan Colliery Tramway in Cape Breton may have been in 1866 the first narrow gauge steam operated railway in the Western Hemisphere.
Two dozen different railway systems are covered within the book's twenty-three chapters. There are 128 rare photographs, most from private collections and never before reproduced. Many appear in full page size. Seventeen other illustrations include fascinating sketches by RJ. Sandusky.
Narrow Gauge Railways of Canada provides the reader with 112 pages of text containing listings of mileage, chronological and geographical facts about each system, with locomotive information. Several other useful appendices are included: time-mileage charts, eleven diagrams, fifteen pages of roster, and gradient profiles of three steeply-graded mountain routes.
Informative maps of each line show route details, and these are keyed to an overall map, pinpointing the railway's exact location within Canada.
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