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Biography
Barbara Lange grew up in a railway family in Brentwood, Essex, England. Her father was a British Railways ticket collector. She and her two daughters, Sheryl and Lisa, immigrated to Canada in 1978. Barbara was a secretary at the Faculty of Human Ecology, University of Manitoba for 20 years. Since retirement she has produced two railway-themed anthologies, Through the Window of a Train: A Canadian Railway Anthology, and Memories of the Moonlight Special and Grand Beach Train Era. She and her husband Larry, a retired Canadian National carman from Transcona, often travel west on VIAÕs historic Canadian train.
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Books by Barbara Lange
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Memories of the Moonlight Special and Grand Beach Train Era Written by Barbara Lange
391 pages, ISBN: 9780888877024 $22.00 CA
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About the Book
People remembered…
the boardwalk, concessions, the Moonlight Inn, picnics, the carousel, the dancing pavilion, Daddy Trains, beach romances, Hot Lips ginger beer, bands, Morse code, ice boxes, honey pot toilets, red boards, the wye, fishflies, bittersweet vine, the Snowshoe Special, and a bygone era when passengers felt part of one big family.
From the deep, dank bowels of a century-old railway station, a roll of unused tickets surfaced for Canadian National Railway´s Victoria Beach Subdivision line. Sixty years after train service to the east shores of Lake Winnipeg ceased, a writer embarked on a journey of discovery. Creepy crawls through cemeteries, walks on wooden trestles, and strolls through Manitoba´s cottage country revealed a transplanted station, a time capsule, and the design plans for the beloved Grand Beach carousel.
I love the way you write. You have captured the sweetness of my parents´ romance.
— Cheri Bird, Vancouver
[This book] takes you back in time to the wonderful, fun-filled days of the past.
— Diane Truderung, author and editor, Transcona´s Story – 100 Years of Progress
A great book. The stories collected tell us what it smelled like, felt like, and sounded like to be on those trains. You have recreated a whole world that has now disappeared.
— Jim Blanchard, Winnipeg historian
The eBook version of Memories of the Moonlight Special and Grand Beach Train Era is available now from
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Through the Window of a Train: A Canadian Railway Anthology Edited by Barbara Lange
275 pages, Paperback ISBN: 9780888873910 $19.95 CA
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About the Book
If you´ve ever been curious about the lives of people on board a moving train, or wanted to take a nostalgic trip back to the steam era, then this book is for you. Since the first trans-continental passenger train, the Pacific Express, headed west in 1885 the railway has been part of many people´s lives. For some the railway was their life. One only needs to mention The Moonlight Special, The CNR, The E&N, The CPR, The Blueberry Special, The Milk Run, or The H&SW (Hellish Slow and Wobbly) for memories to come flooding back.>
This journey begins in Craigellachie, amongst the verdant mountains of British Columbia, where the famous last spike was driven home. The reader is then transported to Vancouver Island and across the Prairies to Nova Scotia, and from the era of steam to diesel-electric trains. Relive hilarious, hazardous, and historical moments as you peek through the window of a train and into the past. Meet gandy dancers, a rookie running out of steam, lost immigrants, and women entering the male-dominated world of the railway. Experience asbestos snowball fights, boxcar classrooms, and silk trains as they blur by your window.
These stories retell the significance of the railway, or a single journey taken, in the lives of ordinary Canadians. Dotted with junction and siding names, engine numbers, and routes, for the rail enthusiast.
The eBook version of Through the Window of a Train: A Canadian Railway Anthology is available now from
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Copyright © by Borealis Press Ltd., 2002.
Updated: August 5, 2002
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