The Prince Edward Island Railway (PEIR) was a historic Canadian railway.
Read more about Prince Edward Island Railway: Construction, Confederation, Canadian Government Railways, Canadian National Railways, The Rise of Automobiles and Trucks, Ferry Service, The Decline of Rail On P.E.I., Deregulation and Abandonment, Preservation, Narrow-Gauge Locomotives, Diesel Locomotives, Railcars
Famous quotes containing the words prince, edward, island and/or railway:
“I will catch Christ with a greased worm,
And when the Prince of Darkness stalks
My bloodstream to its Stygian term . . .
On water the Man-Fisher walks.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“Sometimes we have to go through the darkness alone, before we can see the light.”
—Adele Comandini. Edward Sutherland. Michael O’Brien (Charles Winninger)
“I ... would rather be in dependance on Great Britain, properly limited, than on any nation upon earth, or than on no nation. But I am one of those too who rather than submit to the right of legislating for us assumed by the British parliament, and which late experience has shewn they will so cruelly exercise, would lend my hand to sink the whole island in the ocean.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)