Steel Rails & Iron Men
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ISBN: 1-55285-452-3; 978-1-55285-452-5
Dimesions: 8.5 x 11
Page Count: 176
Binding: Paperback
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Steel Rails & Iron Men
A Pictoral History of the Kettle Valley Railway
By Barrie Sanford
In this new edition of a railway classic, Barrie Sanford, author of McCulloch's Wonder,
presents a unique pictorial history of the legendary Kettle Valley
Railway. Archival photographs and several from the author's personal
collection illustrate the history of the Kettle Valley Railway from its
construction through its turbulent lifespan and eventual demise. These
moving visual images celebrate the magnitude of the engineering feats
achieved by Andrew McCulloch and the many workers who made the railway
a reality. Many workers died in the attempt to lay track across three
mountain ranges and some of the world's most rugged river canyons. More
lost their lives in the railway's subsequent years of operating freight
and passenger services on the sometimes treacherous tracks of British
Columbia's southern interior. For all historians and railway buffs,
this is an essential book.












