Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents xi
3. foreword vii
4. acknowledgments ix
5. introduction 1
6. the railway
7. the building Mocks 11
8. the first steps 19
9. the attempt at public construction 25
10. dickering for a contract 1879-80 31
11. the contract and the men who made it 39
12. the primary construction period 49
13. the dismal years 1886-96 65
14. the crows's nest 73
15. the golden years 1897-1913 83
16. the ending of the boom, the war and its aftermath 93
17. the inter-war period 101
18. the second world war 109
19. the recent past 1945-66 113
20. other activities
21. the lands 125
22. cominco 143
23. other investments 157
24. a summing up 165
25. list of railways mentioned in the text 167
26. notes 181
27. index 193