topic:"Railways" found 5 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Notes: Partial contents: Railroad through the Crowsnest / Diana Wilson; The Frank Slide / Frank Anderson; Hillcrest Mine Disaster / Frank Anderson; Fernie: city under a curse / Elsie Turnbull

Accession Number: 40500 08-02-01

Call Number: 08.3 C88wi

Collection: Archives Library

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Silver streak

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Medium: Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)

Published Date: 2004

Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.

Call Number: 06.3 Si3 DVD

1 website

Responsibility: Arthur Hiller (director); Colin Higgins (writer); Gene Wilder (actor); Richard Pryor (actor); Jill Clayburgh (actor)

Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.

Published Date: 2004

Physical Description: 1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color

Medium: Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)

Subjects: Films; Film making; Railways; Morant, Nicholas

Abstract: In this wild comedy adventure, rail passenger George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) finds that a romantic escapade with a sultry secretary (Jill Clayburgh) puts him in the middle of a Hitchcockian murder plot. Leaping on and off the train, in and out of roomettes, bars, and dining cars, George teams up with an amiable small-time crook (Richard Pryor) to defy the murder's henchmen, FBI agents and a host of other outrageous characters (from back of DVD)

Notes: Still photography by Nicholas Morant; Originally produced as a motion picture in 1976

Accession Number: P2019-31

Call Number: 06.3 Si3 DVD

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Silver Streak on IMDb

Websites

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075223/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad : the photographs of William H. Rau

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2002

Author: Rau, William Herman

Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press

Call Number: 06.4 R19t

Author: Rau, William Herman

Responsibility: edited by John C. Van Horne with Eileen E. Drelick; essays by Kenneth Finkel, Mary Panzer, John r. Stilgoe

Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press

Published Date: 2002

Physical Description: 260p. : ill

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Photographers; Railways; Vaux family

Notes: Index

Call Number: 06.4 R19t

Collection: Archives Library

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Personal Interest Files - "Parks Canada Reorganization" to "Rocky Mountain Youth Initiative"

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Part Of: Ben Gadd fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of personal interest materials, including newspaper clippings, research articles, loose notes, and other textual records collected by Ben Gadd. Materials are arranged alphabetically by subject title.

Date Range: [ca.1980-2015]

Reference Code: M590 / I / C / 127 to 143

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Textual record; Published record; Newspaper clipping

Part Of: Ben Gadd fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M590; V810; S61

Series: M590 / I : Personal records

Sous-Fonds: M590

Sub-Series: M590 / I / C : Personal Interest Files

Accession Number: 2021.20

Reference Code: M590 / I / C / 127 to 143

GMD: Textual record; Published record; Newspaper clipping

Responsibility: Compiled by Ben Gadd

Date Range: [ca.1980-2015]

Physical Description: 12 cm of textual records

Scope & Content: File consists of personal interest materials, including newspaper clippings, research articles, loose notes, and other textual records collected by Ben Gadd. Materials are arranged alphabetically by subject title.

Notes: Contents of individual folders in file: M590 / I / C / 127 to 128 : Parks Canada Reorganization [Files 1 and 2 of 2] M590 / I / C / 129 : Pipeline (Trans Canada, etc.) M590 / I / C / 130 : Plans M590 / I / C / 131 : Pocahontas (Maps, Plans) M590 / I / C / 132 : Pole, Graeme M590 / I / C / 133 : Poisons, Pesticides, Pollution M590 / I / C / 134 : Population Explosion M590 / I / C / 135 : Provincial Parks M590 / I / C / 136 : Railways M590 / I / C / 137 : Rapson, Dwight M590 / I / C / 138 : RCMP M590 / I / C / 139 : Resorts, Industrial Tourism M590 / I / C / 140 : Roy Richards M590 / I / C / 141 : Rivers, Flooding M590 / I / C / 142 : Roads + Highways, Salting M590 / I / C / 143 : Rocky Mountain Youth Initiative

Name Access: Gadd, Ben

Subject Access: Tourism; National parks and reserves; Government; Travel; Transportation; Trains; Railways; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Rivers; Provincial parks and reserves; Pollution; Oil; Natural resources; Roads; Map; Geography

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Jasper National Park

Reproduction Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Language: English

Category: Environment; Natural resources; Government

Title Source: Original title used

Processing Status: Processed

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