Railway by the Bay : 100 Years of Trains at White Rock, Crescent Beach and Ocean Park, 1909-2009
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Railway by the Bay: 100 Years of Trains at White Rock, Crescent Beach and Ocean Park
EN NWISBN: 9780973560213 bzw. 0973560215, in Englisch, National Railway Historical Society, neu.
Lieferung aus: Kanada, In Stock, plus shipping.
Barrie Sanford, Books, Travel, Canada, Railway by the Bay: 100 Years of Trains at White Rock, Crescent Beach and Ocean Park, In 1909, a railway line opened along the shoreline of Semiahmoo Bay, where the Canada-United States boundary meets the Pacific Ocean. The new railway made the superlative beaches of Semiahmoo Bay easily accessible, and soon scores of beach-goers arrived with almost every passing train. In response, the communities of White Rock, Crescent Beach and Ocean Park sprang up and prospered. But as the years passed and the automobile usurped the passenger train as the principal mode of transportation, residents began to resent - then curse- the railway tracks on their doorsteps. No longer viewed as providing access to the beach, the tracks were seen as impeding access. Occasionally, beach-goers were struck by trains as they crossed the tracks, almost always with fatal results. Demands to get rid of the railway filled newspaper columns and even reached the Prime Minister's office in Ottawa. No section of railway track of comparable length in British Columbia has generated such furious and sustained controversy. This book is not intended to resolve the controversy. Rather, it records - in words and photographs - the story of the first 100 years of the Railway by the Bay, as seen by someone who, as a child, watched with rapt fascination the beachfront trains passing his bedroom window.
Barrie Sanford, Books, Travel, Canada, Railway by the Bay: 100 Years of Trains at White Rock, Crescent Beach and Ocean Park, In 1909, a railway line opened along the shoreline of Semiahmoo Bay, where the Canada-United States boundary meets the Pacific Ocean. The new railway made the superlative beaches of Semiahmoo Bay easily accessible, and soon scores of beach-goers arrived with almost every passing train. In response, the communities of White Rock, Crescent Beach and Ocean Park sprang up and prospered. But as the years passed and the automobile usurped the passenger train as the principal mode of transportation, residents began to resent - then curse- the railway tracks on their doorsteps. No longer viewed as providing access to the beach, the tracks were seen as impeding access. Occasionally, beach-goers were struck by trains as they crossed the tracks, almost always with fatal results. Demands to get rid of the railway filled newspaper columns and even reached the Prime Minister's office in Ottawa. No section of railway track of comparable length in British Columbia has generated such furious and sustained controversy. This book is not intended to resolve the controversy. Rather, it records - in words and photographs - the story of the first 100 years of the Railway by the Bay, as seen by someone who, as a child, watched with rapt fascination the beachfront trains passing his bedroom window.
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Railway by the Bay: 100 Years of Trains at White Rock, Crescent Beach and Ocean Park, 1909-2009 (2009)
EN HC USISBN: 9780973560213 bzw. 0973560215, in Englisch, National Railway Historical Society British Columbia Chapter, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Kanada, plus shipping, Shipping area: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Richard Fredericks, Bookseller, BC, Burnaby, [RE:5].
Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 230 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Hard cover, New ed.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Richard Fredericks, Bookseller, BC, Burnaby, [RE:5].
Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 230 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Hard cover, New ed.
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Railway by the Bay : 100 Years of Trains at White Rock, Crescent Beach and Ocean Park, 1909-2009 (2009)
EN HC US SI FEISBN: 9780973560213 bzw. 0973560215, in Englisch, Vancouver, BC, Canada: National Railway Historical Society, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, signiert, Erstausgabe, mit Einband.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, BookSchnook [970974], Burnaby, BC, Canada.
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Railway By The Bay : 100 Years of Trains at White Rock, Crescent Beach and Ocean Park (2009)
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Railway By The Bay : 100 Years of Trains at White Rock, Crescent Beach and Ocean Park (2009)
EN HC USISBN: 9780973560213 bzw. 0973560215, in Englisch, National Railway Historical Society, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Usually ships in 1-2 business days.
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