Canadian National's Western Stations

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Author Charles Bohi has spent countless summers combing Canada's westfor information and photographing thousands of stations and structures. The result is thisconcise, authoritative account accompanied by over 130 photos and sketches. But notsimnply snapshots of boarded-up stations...almost all the photos are superb action shots,showing the stations in use, occupied, earning revenue, or with today's train passingthrough. You'll see how the station agent and his family lived in their owndepot-home, complete with flower gardens and neatly trimmed hedges. You'll shiver as youthink about the waiting room's pot-bellied stoves that the agents stoked, trying vainly tokeep cold prairie winds at bay. And you'll learn just what made each station unique andwhat to look for when you next go "station hunting". With archival research and photographs from CNSIG (Canadian NationalSpecial Interest Group).