THE SUMMER AND WINTER TRACKS, CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY

The following images are from the book "King's Empire" published in 2 volumes the early 1900s. The photographs were taken at the height of the British Empire. The books are available in higher resolution for download as PDF ebooks at www.ozebook.com

THE SUMMER AND WINTER TRACKS, CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY. This sombre but splendid view represents a scene upon the Canadian Pacific a line which, thanks partly to the energy of the Dominion Government, and partly to the enterprise of private capitalists, has joined the Atlantic to the Pacific, and has given the Empire a British road across the North American continent. In the background are the great glaciers of the Rockies. In the foreground are the rails of the Canadian Pacific Railway ; on the left hand is the summer track for the days of clear skies and sunshine ; on the right is the covered way by which the train passes in winter and thus escapes the deep snow-drifts, through which even the heavy snow-ploughs of the immense locomotives would be quite unable to force their way. (Page 12.)