Prototype Books

Published by Steampower Publishing Softcover book. Subtitled: "A History of the Rail Car Ferry Service On the St. Lawrence River Between Prescott Ontario & Ogdensburg, New York" The Prescott, Ontario – Ogdensburg, New York, rail car...

Published by Dundurn Press Softcover book. Subtitled: "Exporing the Railway Heritage of Quebec and the Atlantic Provinces" Follow this book through eastern Canada’s railway heritage. Visit preserved railway stations in various states of use, or...

Subtitle: General Motors and Beyond Softcover book. General Motors wanted to revolutionize transit bus design after having success with their New Look Bus through the 1960s. Being protagonists for progress, GM's engineers created a prototype coach...

Published by the Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society. Softcover book. Subtitled: "The Story of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Through the New River Gorge of West Virginia" A wonderful survey of the C&O line through the New River...

Softcover book. Subtitled: "An illustrated history of the vehicles that helped to keep railway passenger service alive" This book details how, in November 1925, CNR’s new diesel-electric car No. 15820 completed its record-breaking run...

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...

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...