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All Aboard

Our Enduring Love Affair with Trains

From: Wanderlust

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Chapter Six examines trains and transportation by rail. The chapter explores the invention of trains, trains as connectors of the masses across the big countries of Canada and America, the introduction of luxury aboard trains, the rolling hotels of the late nineteenth century in America, and rail travel in the present day.

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Laura Byrne Paquet

Laura Byrne Paquet is the author of The Urge to Splurge: A Social History of Shopping. Her articles have appeared in more than 70 publications in Canada, the U.S., and Europe, including National Geographic, Traveler, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, enRoute, Chatelaine, Canadian Living, and the Ottawa Citizen. Between her globe-trotting adventures, she finds time to write romance novels from her Ottawa home.