Railways of Canada A Pictorial History Railways of Canada A Pictorial History.
A story of men who built the Iron Horses which first blazed a trail through virgin forests; of engineers who braved danger and the elements guiding their trains safely through blizzards & darkness, of men who stoked the hungry fires, braked the cars in hazardous circumstances, walked & watched the tracks on duty around the clock & gave their lives riding the rails as the pioneers of progress.
Bibliography, Index.
Photos, maps & charts
book : softcover
1972
1983.043.001
Library
Railways of Canada A Pictorial History. An account of the early growth, opening up of the country for expansion, population shift because of the trains, development of cities, dieing of small towns bypassed by the rails.
b&w Signed on title page "to "Dad" Sibley, Good reading and love. The Shuttleworths".
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