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VIA Rail by Christopher CN Greenlaw MBI Railroad Color History w/Dust jacket
VIA Rail by Christopher CN Greenlaw
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
160 pages
Copyright 2007
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 6
INTRODUCTION 7
Chapter 1 AUSTERE BEGINNINGS: 1919-19678
Chapter 2 TOWARD NATIONALIZATION: 1967-197434
Chapter 3 "WE'RE GOING ALL OUT TO GET YOU WHERE YOU'RE GOING": 1974-197652
Chapter 4 TRANSITIONS: 1976-1980 70
Chapter 5 THE AXE RISES AND FALLS: 1980-1990 94
Chapter 6 INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM: 1990-2007 126
EPILOGUE 154
SOURCES 156
INDEX 159
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
Go VIA Rail and see Canada! Here is the first complete and illustrated history of Canada's national passenger railway system-8,700 scenic miles (14,000 kilometers) stretching from the Maritime provinces to the Pacific Coast, and from the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay.
In addition to providing a primer on VIA Rail's prehistory dating to the nineteenth century, Canadian author and longtime railfan Chris Greenlaw tells the tale, rife with political machinations, of how in the early 1970s VIA was set on the path to becoming a Crown Corporation finally relieving the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific of their beleaguered passenger operations. As VIA Rail develops and comes into its own identity, its story is one rich in national history, marked with failures and misfortunes, successes and fortunes, right up to the present day, when a need for convenient, fuel-efficient mass transportation holds out hope for a renaissance.
Archival and modern photography, four specially commissioned route maps, and print ads detail VIA Rail's motive power and passenger cars from the likes of General Motors, Bombardier, Montreal Locomotive Works, and Budd Company, as well such passenger trains such as the Canadian, The Atlantic, the Ocean, and the Super Continental. VIA Rail has always been a fundamental component of Canadian railroad history, and Greenlaw presents a fitting tribute to a national transportation icon.
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