Book Small quarto, hardcover, VG ex library copy in VG blue and white

Book Small quarto, hardcover, VG ex library copy in VG blue and white pictorial dj in mylar. First printing. One of the 'Railroads of America' series. B&w photographs, maps. "In 1881 a company was formed to lay the 1, 900 miles of railway that would connect Montreal and British Columbia in just five years. There were two separate and distinct sections. The first extended through the forbidding Laurentian Shield north of Lake Huron and Lake Superior, between Callander and Thunder Bay. The second spanned the 1, 250 miles between Red River and Kamloops, starting with 850 miles of relatively easy going across the prairies, followed by 400 mountainous miles through the Rockies and on to the Pacific. 491 pp. including index.