Robert D. Turner
Auteur de Vancouver Island railroads
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Œuvres de Robert D. Turner
The Pacific Princesses: An illustrated history of Canadian Pacific Railway's Princess fleet on the northwest coast (1977) 23 exemplaires
Pacific Empresses: An Illustrated History Of Canadian Pacific Railway's Empress Liners on The Pacific Ocean (1981) 19 exemplaires
West of the Great Divide: An Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia 1880-1986 (1987) 18 exemplaires
Steam Along the Boundary - Canadian Pacific, Great Northern and the Great Boundary Copper Boom (2007) 14 exemplaires
The Skyline Limited: The Kaslo and Slocan Railway : an illustrated history of narrow gauge railroading and… (1994) 12 exemplaires
The Thunder of Their Passing: A Tribute to the Denver & Rio Grande's Narrow Gauge and the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic… (2003) 10 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1947
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Professions
- Historian
writer in residence
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 19
- Membres
- 237
- Popularité
- #95,614
- Évaluation
- 4.5
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 31
Mr. Turner did one heck of a job on this: (1) the history of these lines is clearly a lot more interesting than many histories. . . being the major narrow gauge operation in North America didn't hurt; (2) the side bars on many pages help one understand the people that kept this "mistake(my opinion)" stay alive as long as it did and convinced many in Colorado and New Mexico this unique piece of history had to be saved and (3)the many photos of it over the years both in personal collections and in the Denver Public Library Collection are nothing short of spectacular.
Colorado is spectacular RR country and adding narrow gauge to it really causes it to be addicting. There is a quote from an essay that David P. Morgan, " Mr. Trains Magazine" for many years" that starts with the title "The Wide, Wide World of Narrow Gauge. . ." which probably explains why I'm hooked. Someone says it gets in your blood. . .is that why my blood type is "RR(sic)"?
The book takes the history up to 2003. 2020 is the 50th anniversary of CTSR. If the special issue of Trains Magazine is even close to this book, it will be a wonderful add on read. We'll see.… (plus d'informations)