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.
- Links to past copies of Newsletters:
CRHA Canadian Rail - Bytown Railway Society (Branchline) - Upper Canada Railway Society - 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.
- A visit to my N scale Eagle Lake & Northern Railway
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
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Agincourt CPR 1964
The Sirman Collection
Notepad:
Website
- NEW PAGES: The Schomberg & Aurora Railway, Glossary of Common RailwayTerms, The Lake Simcoe Junction Railway
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NEW PAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Upper Canada Railway Society and its publications
Scanning of Issues between 1980 to the end of publication in 1998 has been completed.
Scanning is now proceeding for Issues between 1958 and 1974. It is a time-consuming process, and this page will be "under construction" for some time.
Donations or loans of newsletters prior to 1958 for the purpose of recording on this page would be much appreciated. Please Contact Me. - NEW ARRIVALS: Carl Riff's Railway History Diaries Latest batch: 1960 Tripleheader article (Railways General) posted.
- UPDATE: Hamilton's Other Railway Redesign of Content, new Cardwell Jct. information.
- UPDATE: Trains on TV and Screen - additions
- UPDATE: Ontario Railway Stations Gallery - A to Z completed 2019 (Postcards & Historical). More pending.
- UPDATE: Ontario Railway Stations Gallery- A to Z completed 2019 (Post WW II). More pending.
- UPDATE: Canadian Rail: Now with a complete Subject Index, allowing search by major topic.
- IN THE WORKS: The Lindsay, Bobcaygeon & Pontypool Railway, Cardwell Junction.
Books
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.
Recently Available:
Steam Encounters at Montreal - Ian Wilson
The First Spike - the early railways, tramways and roads of eastern Ontario - Steven Manders
Bytown Railway Society Publications
Canadian Trackside Guide 2020
For details re the above and other books, please go to What's New in Publications