Author(s): Barrie Sanford

History

The new edition of McCulloch's Wonder provides train buffs with a long-awaited update to a classic railway history.

• New visuals capture the dramatic landscape that had to be conquered to complete the railway.
• Updated sources provide more information about the individuals, from Andrew McCulloch himself to the laborers who made the railway a reality.
• Governments rose and fell over the project, which linked the Kootenay Mountains with the Pacific Coast, and
• The railway dominated headlines for a quarter of a century.

Although it is no more, the Kettle Valley Railway is just as newsworthy today and lives on in this fascinating story of the world's most difficult and expensive railway.