References in Popular Culture
The American novelist Courtney Ryley Cooper's 1931 adventure novel End of Steel is a fictionalized recounting of the line's original construction.
Calgary performer John Leeder wrote and recorded a song titled "Hudson Bay Line" about the rigours of bygone train travel on this route. According to Leeder, "it's been recorded six times that I know of."
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