Prototype Books

Softcover book. Featuring the distinctive red and white locomotives, freight cars, and early wine-colored equipment of the Soo Line! Cabooses, passenger and freight trains, equipment, and structures are also included in this in-depth, full-color coverage...

Hardcover book. Kicking off our coverage of Soo Line Power, in Volume 1 you'll find 300 color photos of Soo Line’s switchers and covered wagons! Alco, EMD (and EMC), Baldwin, Fairbanks-Morse, and a lone GE are featured, as is a single yard slug!...

Hardcover book. Features early roadswitchers from the Alco RS-1 to the EMD GP35s! GP7s, GP9s, GP30s, and rebuild variations are included, as are the Baldwin Road Switchers. Fuel tenders, cabooses, and rare Soo Line miscellanea round it out! Author:...

Hardcover book. GP and SD models built in LaGrange and London are featured, including rare SD40As, SD39, SD60s and SD60Ms, SDL39s, GP15C,s and GP39-2s! For variety there’s also an SD40B, and a pair of SD45s, as well as the common GP40s and GP38-2s...

Hardcover book. Subtitled: "Rehor, Wood & Harwood photograph the branchlines of Ontario" This book will be the definitive chronicle of the 1957 trips to Ontario by photographers John Rehor, Don Wood and Herb Harwood. The limited-edition...

Hardcover book. Subtitled: "Rehor, Wood & Harwood revisit the branchlines of Ontario" Second in our landmark Speed Graphics series. This title concentrates on the Rehor-Wood-Harwood travels in southwestern Ontario in July 1958. Where this narrative...

Hardcover book. Subtitled: "Rehor, Wood & Harwood revisit the branchlines of Ontario" Our second 1958 volume, and third in the Speed Graphics series, picks up the action right where its predecessor leaves off. Further, it sets the stage for the grand...

Hardcover book. Subtitled: "Herb Harwood tracks steam in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia" Our Speed Graphics series resumes with Herb Harwood in August 1959. We track CPR steam in New Brunswick, plus the Maritime Coal, Railway & Power Company shortline...

Turn the clock back more than forty years to the last decade of steam operation on the network of CNR lines radiating out of Allandale, sixty miles north of Toronto and division point of the 672-mile Allandale Division . . . to an era before the...

Softcover book. Subtitled: "Action at a CNR junction north of Toronto in 1952" This initial softcover volume marked the author’s return to reconstructing 1950s steam railway operations. With a fictional point-of-view character, this treatment...

"Until someone invents a time machine, the best way to visit the railway operations of yesteryear in Southern Ontario is through the pages of Ian Wilson’s books. Through the pages of Steam Echoes of Hamilton, take a trip back to the railway...

Softcover book. Subtitled: "A parade of CNR & CPR locomotives through Jim Guerrin's lens" First in a series of all-colour softcovers featuring Jim Guerin pictures in Ontario and Quebec. Both CNR and CPR steam and diesel in the mid-to-late 1950s, with...

Softcover book. Subtitled: "A parade of CNR & CPR locomotives through Bob Krone's lens" Fourth in a series of all-colour softcovers featuring pictures in Ontario and Quebec. This volume will showcase CNR and CPR (and the occasional foreign road)...

Softcover book. Subtitled: "The CNR and CPR in 1954 and 1955 through Jim Guerrin's lens" Second in a series of all-colour softcovers featuring Jim Guerin pictures in Ontario and Quebec. This volume showcases CNR and CPR steam and diesel in Ontario during...

Softcover book. Subtitled: "The CNR and CPR from 1956 to 1959 through Jim Guerrin's lens" Third in a series of all-colour softcovers featuring Jim Guerin pictures in Ontario and Quebec. This volume showcases CNR and CPR steam and diesel in Ontario from...

Hardcover book. Subtitled: "CNR operations from Toronto to Lake Superior in the 1950s" The books document operations on the CNR Northern Ontario District mainline from the Don Valley in Toronto to the Lake Superior region. Author: Ian Wilson...

"Step back to 1954, before the St. Lawrence Seaway and diesel power ushered in the present age. Visit the CNR branchline division point at Lindsay, Ontario, positioned on the busiest grain route between Georgian Bay and Montreal. Witness the massive...

Along with Steam at Allandale, the additional 375 images and 57 maps comprising the new Steam Scenes of Allandale complete the record of a network of CNR lines in the postwar steam era. Stand amid cinder-blanketed shop tracks as locomotives are serviced...

Softcover book. Subtitled: "A photographic supplement to Steam in Northern Ontario " This is a 48-page softcover photo supplement to the hardcover Steam in Northern Ontario. This book features 87 additional images to augment your journey to the...

Softcover book. Subtitled: "Revisiting a CNR division point and motive power shop" This is a 48-page softbound title exclusively devoted to the CNR operations at Stratford, Ontario. It replicates the content and style of "Steam Scenes of Allandale". The...