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Description of  Rails Over the Mountains: Exploring the Railway Heritage of Canada's Western Mountains

Journey through the engineering marvels, stations, and heritage sites of Canadas western mountains. Ride the rails through Canadas western mountains to explore the many vestiges of the regions spectacular and surprising railway heritage. Here is where grand railway hotels were built to attract tourists to the Wests beautiful scenery and bring profit to the railway lines as well. Rustic stations added to the allure. The challenges of conquering the mountains resulted in some of Canadas most ingenious feats of engineering, such as spiral tunnels and soaring trestles (one of which was featured in Read more