Rails Over the Mountains: Exploring the Railway Heritage of Canada's Western Mountains
- ISBN-10
- 1459733584
- ISBN-13
- 9781459733589
- Category
- Transportation
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-07-09
- Publisher
- Dundurn
- Author
- Ron Brown
Description
Explore western Canada’s rich railway history, travelling from the grand railway hotels and rustic stations to the creative engineering that created spiral bridges and soaring trestles. Relive this time through a trip on one of the many steam trains, visit a railway museum, or walk the trails where trains used to rumble.
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