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Jones, for years an archivist with the Canadian Pacific Railway, is the right man for the job: an informed fanas notes about the generations of CPR trains (the Pacific Express, the Trans-Canada Limited, the Canadian and many others). He writes easily, whether about the joy of riding the trains as a child or the patronizing attitudes experienced by black sleeping-car porters. The book is well laid out for browsing, with copious photographs, artifacts (a childrenas breakfast menu with cartoon beavers in circus hats) and, of course, the railwayas brilliant marketing posters. <br>- The Globe and Mail <p> Anyone remotely interested in trains should pick up a copy of David Laurence Jones's Famous Name Trains: Travelling in Style with the CPR, which is chock full of interesting anecdotes, colourful poster images and historical photos....Jones, the son of a long-time railway man as well as the CPR's manager of internal communications, is an ideal teller of these train tales. <br>-- Westworld magazine <p> These magnificent, romantic trains each have their own story to tell, laying the tracks for the history of the passenger train across the country. The photographs of the trains, dining halls, sleeping cars, menus, and advertising, as well as a history of the Great Lakes steamships that connected passengers to the trains heading West, make a great holiday gift. <br>- Good Times (Toronto) <p> The black-and-white pics and period posters are fantastic. <br>- Alberta Venture

Jones, for years an archivist with the Canadian Pacific Railway, is the right man for the job: an informed fan s notes about the generations of CPR trains (the Pacific Express, the Trans-Canada Limited, the Canadian and many others). He writes easily, whether about the joy of riding the trains as a child or the patronizing attitudes experienced by black sleeping-car porters. The book is well laid out for browsing, with copious photographs, artifacts (a children s breakfast menu with cartoon beavers in circus hats) and, of course, the railway s brilliant marketing posters. - The Globe and Mail Anyone remotely interested in trains should pick up a copy of David Laurence Jones's Famous Name Trains: Travelling in Style with the CPR, which is chock full of interesting anecdotes, colourful poster images and historical photos....Jones, the son of a long-time railway man as well as the CPR's manager of internal communications, is an ideal teller of these train tales. -- Westworld magazine These magnificent, romantic trains each have their own story to tell, laying the tracks for the history of the passenger train across the country. The photographs of the trains, dining halls, sleeping cars, menus, and advertising, as well as a history of the Great Lakes steamships that connected passengers to the trains heading West, make a great holiday gift. - Good Times (Toronto) The black-and-white pics and period posters are fantastic. - Alberta Venture

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David Laurence Jones is manager of internal communications at Canadian Pacific Railway. A history graduate from Concordia University, he worked for fourteen years in the railway's corporate archives, researching and collecting stories and anecdotes about the CPR's rich heritage. He lives in Calgary with his wife and daughter.

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