Rails Across Ontario: Exploring Ontario's Railway Heritage
Autor Ron Brownen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 noi 2013
Rails Across Ontario will take the reader back to a time when the railway ruled the economy and the landscape.
Read about historic stations, railway museums, heritage train rides, and historic bridges. Follow old rail lines along Ontario's most popular rail trails. Find out where steam engines still puff across farm fields and where historic train coaches lead deep into the wilds of Ontario's scenic north country. Discover long forgotten but once vital railway structures, such as roundhouses, coal docks, and water towers. Learn about regular VIA Rail routes that follow some of the province's oldest rail lines and pass some of its most historic stations, including one that has operated continuously since 1857.
Read about historic stations, railway museums, heritage train rides, and historic bridges. Follow old rail lines along Ontario's most popular rail trails. Find out where steam engines still puff across farm fields and where historic train coaches lead deep into the wilds of Ontario's scenic north country. Discover long forgotten but once vital railway structures, such as roundhouses, coal docks, and water towers. Learn about regular VIA Rail routes that follow some of the province's oldest rail lines and pass some of its most historic stations, including one that has operated continuously since 1857.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781459707535
ISBN-10: 1459707532
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 60
Dimensiuni: 203 x 204 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: DUNDURN GROUP
ISBN-10: 1459707532
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 60
Dimensiuni: 203 x 204 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: DUNDURN GROUP
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Cuprins
One: The Rails Arrive; the Growth of Ontario’s Rail Network, 1850 - 1950
Two: Bridging Ontario, the Railway Bridges
Three: The Hey day of the Station; Building Ontario’s Train Stations
Four: The Railway Towns from Whistle Stops to Divisional Towns to Ghost Towns
Five: The Castles of the Line: the railway hotels
Six Forgotten Structures; of roundhouses, water towers, and coal chutes
Seven: Saving Our Stations; the struggle to save a vanishing heritage
Eight A Heritage is Saved; the Railway museums
Nine: Short Lines and Rail Trails
Ten: All Aboard; Ontario’s Living Railway Heritage
Two: Bridging Ontario, the Railway Bridges
Three: The Hey day of the Station; Building Ontario’s Train Stations
Four: The Railway Towns from Whistle Stops to Divisional Towns to Ghost Towns
Five: The Castles of the Line: the railway hotels
Six Forgotten Structures; of roundhouses, water towers, and coal chutes
Seven: Saving Our Stations; the struggle to save a vanishing heritage
Eight A Heritage is Saved; the Railway museums
Nine: Short Lines and Rail Trails
Ten: All Aboard; Ontario’s Living Railway Heritage
Notă biografică
Ron Brown is a geographer and freelance travel writer. He has published more than twenty books, including Rails Across the Prairies, The Train Doesnâ??t Stop Here Anymore, and Back Roads of Ontario. He is past chair of the Writers' Union of Canada and leads bus tours to Ontario's many unusual sights. He lives in Toronto
Descriere
For the first time, train buffs and history lovers will have a book that explores the heritage of Ontarioâ??s railways, from its oldest stations to its highest bridges, glamorous hotels (and some not-so-glamorous ones), scenic and historic train rides, rail trails, and sagging old ghost towns.