When Trains Ruled The Rockies

Author : Terry Gainer
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781771603010
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Trains Ruled the Rockies written by Terry Gainer and published by Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Trains Ruled the Rockies is a personal history of the Banff train station from 1948 through 1962. Drawn from Terry Gainer's personal memories and experiences from his years living and working at the legendary Banff Railway Station, this entertaining memoir and important historical record beckons the reader into the golden age of railway travel in the mountains of western Canada. Complete with a selection of archival photographs, When Trains Ruled the Rockies documents life at the Banff Railway Station and traces the huge role the station played in the local community. The author's own story of growing up at the station winds a thread through the narrative and brings into clear focus Terry's lifelong passion for passenger trains, at one time the most dominant means of transportation for Canadians but sadly an experience that is now fading into history.

Author : Terry Gainer
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1771604026
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Trains Ruled the Kootenays written by Terry Gainer and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular history of late 19th and early 20th century railways as they blasted their way into southeastern British Columbia. When Trains Ruled the Kootenays is the story of how the railways established an extensive and convenient transportation network to haul ore from the mines, move people, and service the communities during the early years of the 20th century in the Kootenay region of British Columbia. Terry Gainer's latest book documents sixty years of change in the railway industry of British Columbia. The evolving transformations of life and landscape noted in the text and photos also reflect a period of rapid change in Canada. Threaded through the narrative are anecdotes from Kootenay pioneers recounting their experiences and the means of transportation of the times. As prominent Kootenay author and historian Tom Lymbery noted, "Many books exist about the construction and maintenance of Kootenay railways. Few, if any, have been written about the people who rode them." From that, Terry took Tom's cue and began to write this book.

Author : Terry Gainer
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781771606714
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soo Line's Famous Trains to Canada written by Terry Gainer and published by Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soo Line's Famous Trains To Canada is a brief history of a small and unique Class 1 railway and its famous Canada-USA tourist trains. Initially chartered in 1883 to serve the needs of local millers in Minneapolis, the Soo would eventually come to join the Canadian Pacific line at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, with service to Montreal. In 1888, Canadian Pacific assumed controlling interest in the Soo Line, providing entry into the lucrative US market and levelling the playing field for the CPR to face the onslaught of ferocious competition from James J. Hill, the infamous American railway baron. The "little railway that could" grew to attain giant-killer status, launching famous passenger trains from Minneapolis and St. Paul, meeting head-on the western expansion of the Great Northern Railway and viable, competitive routes to the Atlantic seaboard. Over the years, the Soo Line introduced thousands of Americans to Montreal and Quebec City, the famous Canadian Rockies resorts, and the city of Vancouver, the home port for CP's Pacific steamship services. The Soo also successfully competed on the Spokane and Portland routes from Minneapolis to the Pacific Northwest. In 1923 the "Soo Mountaineer" was launched, becoming the most famous and longest "two-nation" train journey in North America.

Author : Glenn Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975060704
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rocky Mountain Railroad & the Runaway Caboose written by Glenn Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Glen A. Mofford
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 177203424X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Room at the Inn written by Glen A. Mofford and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully illustrated social history profiling forty historic hotels spread over five regions of the southern interior of British Columbia, covering the time period of the 1890s to 1950s. Room at the Inn reveals the long-forgotten histories of British Columbia’s early hospitality industry, through the riveting stories of the men and women who built, ran, and frequented hotels, hostelries, resorts, and roadhouses in the southern Interior. From the Similkameen town of Keremeos to Spences Bridge at the confluence of the Thompson and Nicola Rivers, east to the Alberta border along the Trans-Canada Highway, and south to the Canada–US border, the history of these hotels mirrors the history of BC’s mining towns and boom-bust economy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as waves of prospectors, settlers, and eventually tourists shaped the culture of the province that we know today. Of the forty historic hotels profiled in this book, all contributed to their communities in various ways. They provided more than just a roof over the heads of weary travellers; they were often the sites of live entertainment, places where community members could meet and socialize. Some even doubled as makeshift hospitals during wildfires and floods. Through colourful anecdotes, meticulous research, and fascinating archival photography, Room at the Inn transports readers to a bygone era and pays tribute to the pioneers, entrepreneurs, and hard-work men and women who built and operated these historic accommodations.

Author : Lucius Morris Beebe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780911581287
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrow Gauge in the Rockies written by Lucius Morris Beebe and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a nostalgic 100 year Journey through the Rocky Mountains aboard the narrow gauge railways that snaked through them.

Author : Robert Edmund Strahorn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783337479206
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To the Rockies and Beyond written by Robert Edmund Strahorn and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Edmund Strahorn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To the Rockies and Beyond written by Robert Edmund Strahorn and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
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Download or read book Colorado written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Cleghorn Overton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gulf to Rockies written by Richard Cleghorn Overton and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: