Flashback to The Past

[biglentil]

A friend of mine bought a box of random junk for $1 at the city auction on the weekend. In the box was an interesting book called "Van Horne's Road" An illustratee account of the construction and first years of operation of the Canadian Pacific transcontinental railway by Omer Lavallee.

I flipped it open to see some really neat photos. I've attached a few images, sry about the quality of my smart phone pics.








The oldest known human fossil has been dated to be 2.8 million years old. If we think of human history as a 24 hour clock then the west was 'settled' in the last 4 seconds. Wild to think about it that way.

[bucket]

And most of the railways that were used to settled that 4 seconds of time were tore out in a millisecond.


Good thing the national railways were put in private hands ....they have been on a real tear of increasing the export capacity of this country...and thank them for for our wonderful highways and trucking companies.....that all those trucking companies also help out with environmental issues.....sarcasm.


When you think of the equipment they had to build those railbeds back then ....it's a marvel at what they accomplished and an embarrassment that it was allowed to be tore out.

[stonepicker]

Interesting pic's! Would've been fun to see those big herds of buffalo roaming the prairies.

[Brownie31]

Indian Head = my hometown, family settled here in 1883!

[biglentil]

Indian Head = my hometown, family settled here in 1883!

That photo was probably taken 1883 or 1884 maybe thats one of your relatives in the pic!