Title:
"The Cordwood limited" : a history of the Victoria & Sidney Railway
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Edition:
Rev. 3rd ed.
Publication Date:
1971
1966
Publication Information:
Victoria, B.C. : British Columbia Railway Historical Association, 1971.
©1966.
Physical Description:
83 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Early railroad schemes -- Surveying the route -- Financing arranged -- Start of construction -- Elk Lake relocation -- First rolling stock -- Temporary southern terminus -- Early operations -- Victoria Terminal Railway & Ferry Company -- Commencement of Victoria City & mainland extensions -- The great northern purchase -- New mainland rail connections -- Mainland to island connecting link SS "Victorian" -- Additional motive power -- Service complaints -- Further extension of G.N. control -- Operating problems -- The G.N. locomotives -- A new Victoria station -- Passenger problems -- City and province versus railway company -- Competition--B.C.E.R. -- G.N. gas-electric car -- Further competition--Canadian Northern Pacific Railway -- New G.N. barge slip -- The big snow of 1916 -- The last run -- V & S in receivership -- Sidney branch sold to C.N. -- End of an era -- Roster of locomotives -- Bibliography and acknowledgments.
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Language:
English
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