Author: Robert D. TurnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781550392128
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Vancouver Island's Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway
Author: Robert D. TurnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781550392128
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
The Canadian Pacific's Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway
Author: Robert D. TurnerPublisher: Sono NIS Press
ISBN: 9781550392043
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Along the E&N
Author: Glen A. MoffordPublisher: TouchWood Editions
ISBN: 1771512881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In 1885, Vancouver Island’s E&N rail service carried coal to smelters and ships, and the towns in the railway’s path prospered as the tracks expanded. Along the E&N celebrates the historic and still-surviving hotels and roadhouses that sprung up near the E&N. Within this carefully researched historical narrative, you’ll find stories of the halfway house in the Esquimalt District, the murder and suicide at the Mt Sicker Hotel, and the iconic Quinsam Hotel in Campbell River, burned down in 2017. Peppered with stories of patrons and proprietors alike, this book chronicles the history of sixty hotels—most long gone, destroyed by fire, or simply demolished. Featuring some of the old hotels remodelled into modern-day neighbourhood pubs—such as the Rod & Gun, the Fanny Bay Inn, the Shady Rest, the Cumberland Pub, and the Waverley Pub—Along the E&N resonates with the haunting echoes of the train’s iconic whistle.
The Railway Magazine
Author: Chapters 214-279. Indexes
Author: British ColumbiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
Book Description
This Was Railroading
Author: George B. AbdillPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787208273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This is Part 1 of a historical collection of rare photos and true stories about the tracks, trains and trainmen of the Pacific Northwest...including Northern California. Railroading is the massive Mallet and the caboose hop. It is the lonely track walker, the roundhouse rumors, the water tender, the engineer’s long-spouted oil can. It is the age of steam centered in the most romantic field of industry and commerce ever to intrigue Mr. America. And here in this book of beauty and memory is the graphic story of railroading as the “New West” saw it and rode with it. Railroading to author George B. Abdill is the sound and picture of black bulk streaking and shrieking through the night with a jet of steam trailing back along the boiler. He saw and heard this as a boy on an Oregon farm and has carried it in his heart ever since. Now as a Southern Pacific engineer—“hoghead” to you—and a dedicated collector of railroadiana, he raises the lid of his personal locker to all other railroaders, active and armchair. Get into the cab and as Engineer Abdill steams up the grade he’ll spin you tales of the rails and illustrate them with a part of his precious collection, many of these photographs museum pieces of the first water, most of them never before published, all are rare.
Encyclopedia of British Columbia
Author: Daniel FrancisPublisher: Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub.
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
The BC publishing event of the decade! 30,000 copies in print!
The Timberman
Author: An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord ...
Author: Joseph WhitakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Author: