This website provides:
- Information updates about My four railway history Books.
- News about current and pending Canadian railway (history) publications.
- Information (casual and in-depth) for railway history researchers: Ontario Railway History and a gallery of Ontario railway stations, Ontario Railway Station Museums; and general Railway History Research, including extensive newspaper research, Timetables and summaries of various Canadian railways.
- Information about the model railway hobby: Drop-down menu Railway Modelling.
- A visit to my Hornby-Dublo layouts with some tips and thoughts.
- A Calendar of (mostly) Ontario train shows and events.
- A visit to my unique Toy Train Track Museum, which includes a page perhaps helpful for anyone wishing to identify track from the bygone toy train era.
- A summary of Trains on TV and Screen.
- An album of Railway and Traction Thematic Postage Stamps
- Useful links to railway history-related, rail trail, railway modelling and general information websites.
And if you would like some nostalgic branchline steam sound for ambience, click the play button on the player below!
Charles at Beeton, Ont. end-of-steel 1999. Andrea Percy photo
Featured Ontario Railway Station
Parry Sound CPR 1971.
Al Paterson Collection
Notepad:
Website
- NEW PAGES: Railway Gauges in Ontario, GTR Locomotives - R&LHS Bulletin #147 .
- NEW ARRIVALS: Carl Riff's Railway History Diaries More files keep arriving.
- IN THE WORKS: The Schomberg & Aurora Railway. The South Simcoe Junction Railway.
- UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Canadian Rail: A subject index is in preparation and has reached Issue #150. There are 500+ Issues altogether, so we have some way to go yet!
- ADDITIONS: Prototype Modelling Ontario 'Hall of Fame': Arrivals & Departures - the CPR at Owen Sound (Grey County)
- UPDATE: Simcoe County - more images
- UPDATE: Postage Stamps: (Bulgaria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Ecuador, Honduras, Hungary, Jamaica, Laos, Nicaragua, Romania, Russia, Tanzania, Turkey, Vietnam Republic).
- UPDATE: Toy Train Track Museum: H0/00 Gauge.
Books
Available:
Dining With Canadian Railways Volume 1 - Canadian Pacific Chinaware
Steam in Northern Ontario
Steam Scenes of Northern Ontario
Nip 'n Tuck - A history of the Port Whitby, Port Perry & Lindsay Railway
Maine Central - My Life on the Pine Tree Route 1971-1996
Coming early in 2019 - CN Trackside - Newfoundland with Bill Linley, and
- CN CP Rail Trackside - Around Ontario's Cottage Country
Coming later in 2019 - Speed Graphics and Steam 1958
(Ian Wilson) - Steam Through London (reprint)
- Steam Scenes of London (soft cover supplement)
For details re the above, please go to What's New in Publications
Bytown Railway Society Publications
Canadian Trackside Guide 2018 SOLD OUT - see What's New in Publications for details
Hamilton's Other Railway (CRHA Book Award Winner 2002)
Yes, you can still get a copy!☺. All-time bargain - Now going for $29.95 all-in! Click here to order.
