This website provides:

Information updates about the three railway history books I have written (My Books), and background on CP to the East - The International of Maine Division, that I have edited (also under "My Books"). News about current and pending Canadian railway (history) publications (What's New in Publications). Information perhaps useful to railway history researchers. New articles are added from time to time. Please check my drop-down menu Railway History. and my Index of drop-down menu articles and downloadable Quick Railway History Summaries. Information about the model railway hobby.  Please check my drop-down menu Railway Modelling. New articles are Prototype Modelling and Superdetailing Ideas, as well as a commemorative article on the Aberfoyle Jct. Model Railway. Downloadable Basic Model Railroading leaflets are under Insights. Do visit my unique Toy Train Track Museum. This page has been completely updated and now also offers information for anyone endeavouring to identify track from the bygone toy train era. And check my Ontario, Canada model railway show CALENDAR Useful links to both railway history and railway modelling websites. New links are added from time to time. ("Links").

Charles at Beeton, Ont. end-of-steel 1999. Andrea Percy photo

And if you would like some nostalgic branchline steam sound for ambience, click here!
(Courtesy South Simcoe Railway Heritage Corporation "Steam in Ontario" OR 101-75)

Notepad:

The 2013 edition of the Trackside Guide by the Bytown Railway Society is now available.
Feel free to place an on-line order here.
For more information about the Trackside Guide and other Bytown publications, including CP to the East, the International of Maine Division (60 copies left) and Hamilton's Other Railway (the history of the Hamilton & North Western Railway), please go to page 2 of What's New in Publications.

For other updates to "What's New in Publications", including Don McQueen's long-awaited make-over of Clegg & Corley's Canadian National Steam Power, click here. The new Page 3 of "What's New in Publications" features the books by Nickel Belt Rails and Railfare Books DC.; and the newly-created Page 4 continues to showcase individually published books, and the last "Steam Series" book by Canadian Branchline Miniatures. 

The York-Durham Heritage Railway will host its 2013 Railfan Day on Saturday September 14 at the Uxbridge Train Station. For more information and/or tickets please go to http://www.ydhr.ca or call 905.852.3696.