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Rails Across Ontario: Exploring Ontario's Railway Heritage
Contributor(s): Brown, Ron (Author)
ISBN: 1459707532     ISBN-13: 9781459707535
Publisher: Dundurn Press
OUR PRICE:   $26.99  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Transportation | Railroads - History
- Transportation | Railroads - Pictorial
- History | Canada - General
Dewey: 385.097
LCCN: 2013464718
Physical Information: 0.47" H x 7.98" W x 8.03" (0.91 lbs) 216 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Canadian
 
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Publisher Description:

Explore Ontario's rich railway heritage -- from stations and hotels to train rides, bridges, water towers, and roundhouses.

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.

Contributor Bio(s): Brown, Ron: -

Ron Brown, a geographer and travel writer, has authored more than twenty books, including Canada’s World Wonders and The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. A past chair of the Writers' Union of Canada and a current member of the East York Historical Society, he gives lectures and conducts tours along Ontario's back roads. Ron lives in Toronto.

Ron Brown, a geographer and travel writer, has authored more than twenty books, including Canada's World Wonders and The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. A past chair of the Writers' Union of Canada and a current member of the East York Historical Society, he gives lectures and conducts tours along Ontario's back roads. Ron lives in Toronto.