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 3-rail Hornby-Dublo layout with some tips and thoughts.
- A Calendar of (mostly) Ontario train shows and events.
- A visit to my Information Hub of Toy Train and Model Railway Tracks, which includes pages for track identification and others.
- 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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Guelph Jct CPR 1958
Al Paterson Collection
Notepad:
Website
- NEW PAGES: Upper Canada Railway Society and its publications, Lindsay, Bobcaygeon & Pontypool Railway, Georgian Bay & Seaboard Railway, Paul Rollinson, the train book seller
- RECENT PAGES: The Schomberg & Aurora Railway, Glossary of Common RailwayTerms, The Lake Simcoe Junction Railway
- REVISION: Toy Train and Model Railway Tracks (formerly the Toy Train Track Museum).
- UPDATE: My 3-Rail Hornby-Dublo Layout, Tips and Thoughts
- UPDATE: Prototype Modelling Ontario "Hall of Fame" - N Scale Owen Sound CPR - Trevor Marshall's S Scale Port Rowan
- UPDATE: Hamilton's Other Railway Redesign of Content, new Cardwell Jct. information.
- UPDATE: Trains on TV and Screen - content category redesign - additions
- UPDATE: Ontario Railway Stations Gallery - A to Z updated to August 2020 (Postcards & Historical)..
- UPDATE: Ontario Railway Stations Gallery - A to Z updated to August 2020 (Post WW II).
- UPDATE: Canadian Rail: Now with a complete Subject Index, allowing search by major topic, but UNDER RECONSTRUCTION to replace the www.exporail.org links with PDF links.
- UPDATE: Materials received for Carl Riff's Railway History Diaries (mostly wrecks) December, 2020. Posted.
- IN THE WORKS: 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:
On the Wright Track - by Bonnie Sitter
Speed Graphics and Steam 1958 - Vol 3 - by Ian Wilson
Canadian National Steam - by Donald R. McQueen - ALL EIGHT VOLUMES ARE BEING REPRINTED
For details re the above and other books, please go to What's New in Publications
For a listing and offer of used/out-of-print railway books, please click here.
Note: The 2020 Canadian Trackside Guide has sold out, and the 2021 (39th) Issue is expected in March.