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Great Western Railway of Canada - by David R P Guay (Paperback)

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  • A look back on the brief and spectacular history of Canada's Great Western Railway.This book chronicles the genesis and all-too-brief existence of one of Canada's greatest early railways, the Great Western Railway of Canada (1853-1882), a major precursor to the Canadian National Rail system.Today, the Great Western Railway of Canada is a little-known historic line, overlooked even by many railway aficionados.
  • About the Author: David R.P. Guay is a life-long railroadiana collector and the author of Tracks to the Trenches and Hiram Walker's Railroad: The Lake Erie and Detroit River Railway.
  • 248 Pages
  • Transportation, Railroads

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About the Book



It was one of the great railways that opened up Canada, and played a huge role in the development of Hamilton, the site of its head offices. Yet the rise and fall of the Great Western Railway has been almost lost to memory. David R.P. Guay provides the authoritative book of a great Canadian railway that history forgot.



Book Synopsis



A look back on the brief and spectacular history of Canada's Great Western Railway.

This book chronicles the genesis and all-too-brief existence of one of Canada's greatest early railways, the Great Western Railway of Canada (1853-1882), a major precursor to the Canadian National Rail system.

Today, the Great Western Railway of Canada is a little-known historic line, overlooked even by many railway aficionados. But it was truly a railway ahead of its time. It was a pioneer in combining land- and water-based transportation, including the introduction of river car-ferries and passenger/freight steamships on the Great Lakes. It made waves of a different kind with its acquisition of the American-owned railway linking Detroit, Grand Haven, and Milwaukee. And its mammoth workshops were industrial monuments in Hamilton and London, Ontario, where inventive geniuses laboured to supply the booming rail trade of southern Ontario.

It was the ancestor of some of the most heavily used rail lines in all of Canada. This book has been written to do justice to a railway that truly must be considered one of Canada's trailblazing lines. Amply illustrated with previously unpublished photographs and a thorough historical record of the Great Western Railway's locomotives and rolling stock, it offers a ride back in time into the vanishing history of early Ontario railroading.



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those interested in the subject will find this a useful work.-- "The Semaphore"

An in-depth account of how the line came to be.-- "Canadian Rail"



About the Author



David R.P. Guay is a life-long railroadiana collector and the author of Tracks to the Trenches and Hiram Walker's Railroad: The Lake Erie and Detroit River Railway. He began his second career as a writer in 2010, after a thirty-year career in geriatrics. He lives in Savage, Minnesota.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 8.5 Inches (W) x .53 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.0 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 248
Genre: Transportation
Sub-Genre: Railroads
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Theme: History
Format: Paperback
Author: David R P Guay
Language: English
Street Date: December 29, 2015
TCIN: 92683157
UPC: 9781459732827
Item Number (DPCI): 247-14-3242
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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