{"title":"Terry Gainer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTerry Gainer\u003c\/strong\u003e’s family arrived in Banff in 1948 when his father, Frank Gainer, was transferred there as station agent. From their arrival until 1955 the family lived in the residence atop the station itself. During those years, Terry explored every nook and cranny of the station and the surrounding grounds. From 1957 he worked summer jobs there, initially as a porter in the baggage room and then as a redcap through the summer of 1962, which was the bonanza year of the Seattle World’s Fair and the opening of the Trans-Canada Highway but unfortunately also the beginning of the end of train travel to Banff. Largely influenced by his upbringing, Terry has enjoyed a career that has been an amazing fifty-year adventure in tourism. Though he retired in 2005, he has stayed involved in the industry as a marketing consultant. Terry’s books include \u003cem\u003eWhen Trains Ruled the Kootenays\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWhen Trains Ruled the Rockies: My Life at the Banff Railway Station\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Soo Line’s Famous Trains to Canada\u003c\/em\u003e. Terry lives in Nelson, British Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-soo-lines-famous-trains-to-canada","title":"The Soo Line’s Famous Trains to Canada","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Soo Line’s Famous Trains To Canada\u003c\/i\u003e is a brief history of a small and unique Class 1 railway and its famous Canada–USA tourist trains.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eInitially chartered in 1883 to serve the needs of local millers in Minneapolis, the Soo would eventually come to join the Canadian Pacific line at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, with service to Montreal. In 1888, Canadian Pacific assumed controlling interest in the Soo Line, providing entry into the lucrative US market and levelling the playing field for the CPR to face the onslaught of ferocious competition from James J. Hill, the infamous American railway baron.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe “little railway that could” grew to attain giant-killer status, launching famous passenger trains from Minneapolis and St. Paul, meeting head-on the western expansion of the Great Northern Railway and viable, competitive routes to the Atlantic seaboard. Over the years, the Soo Line introduced thousands of Americans to Montreal and Quebec City, the famous Canadian Rockies resorts, and the city of Vancouver, the home port for CP’s Pacific steamship services. The Soo also successfully competed on the Spokane and Portland routes from Minneapolis to the Pacific Northwest. In 1923 the “Soo Mountaineer” was launched, becoming the most famous and longest “two-nation” train journey in North America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Terry Gainer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":44291232071832,"sku":"9781771606714","price":20.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0641\/6718\/2488\/files\/BNCImageAPI_de1629de-7ed0-4586-b3c9-eef7c7247338.jpg?v=1714521394"},{"product_id":"when-trains-ruled-the-kootenays","title":"When Trains Ruled the Kootenays","description":"\u003cb\u003eA popular history of late 19th and early 20th century railways as they blasted their way into southeastern British Columbia.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Trains Ruled the Kootenays\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of how the railways established an extensive and convenient transportation network to haul ore from the mines, move people, and service the communities during the early years of the 20th century in the Kootenay region of British Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTerry Gainer’s latest book documents sixty years of change in the railway industry of British Columbia. The evolving transformations of life and landscape noted in the text and photos also reflect a period of rapid change in Canada. Threaded through the narrative are anecdotes from Kootenay pioneers recounting their experiences and the means of transportation of the times.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs prominent Kootenay author and historian Tom Lymbery noted, “Many books exist about the construction and maintenance of Kootenay railways. 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The author’s own story of growing up at the station winds a thread through the narrative and brings into clear focus Terry’s lifelong passion for passenger trains, at one time the most dominant means of transportation for Canadians but sadly an experience that is now fading into history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Terry Gainer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":44291235971224,"sku":"9781771603010","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0641\/6718\/2488\/files\/BNCImageAPI_51603095-dc59-4c7a-8f03-281d1b2b728e.jpg?v=1714522185"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0641\/6718\/2488\/collections\/Gainer_Terry-500x630-c.jpg?v=1774992600","url":"https:\/\/rmbooks.com\/collections\/terry-gainer.oembed","provider":"Rocky Mountain Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}