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Steam Memories of Lindsay by Ian Wilson CNR branchline division point w/DJ
Steam Memories of Lindsay by Ian Wilson
CNR branchline division point in the 1950s
Hard Cover w/Dust jacket
192 pages
Copyright 2010
CONTENTS
Introduction: A SCRAPBOOK OF MEMORIES - 6
Chapter 1From shop track to the branchlines: MORNING AT LINDSAY - 12
Chapter 2 - Along the old Toronto c Nipissing Railway: UXBRIDGE SUBDIVISION - 36
Chapter 3 - Junction of the Uxbridge and Coboconk Subdivisions: BLACKWATER - 48
Chapter 4 - Gravel and ghosts of lime kilns and lumber mills `where the gulls nest": COBOCONK SUBDIVISION - 66
Chapter 5 - Along the Midland Subdivision: LORNEVILLE TO VICTORIA HARBOUR - 86
Chapter 6 - King of the Great Lakes grain and coal ports: MIDLAND - 104
Chapter 7 - From lumbering to tourists in the Highlands: HALIBURTON SUBDIVISION- 126
Chapter 8 - Big industry along the Otonabee: TO PETERBORO AND LAKEFIELD - 144
Chapter 9 - Into the roundhouse: EVENING AT LINDSAY - 174
Train & locomotive profiles - 188
Acknowledgements - 192
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
How is one to discover our railway past, aside from consulting faded documents and photographs or rusting artifacts? If one could only step back in time, say to a day in June 1954, absorbing the atmosphere firsthand would be more illuminating than any amount of study. If only it were possible. Well, it is! In this ninth volume by Ian Wilson, the reader is whisked to the town of Lindsay, northeast of Toronto, on the familiar summer day of June 25, 1954. Here, you will visit a busy Canadian National Railways terminal hosting grain trains from Georgian Bay in the pre-St. Lawrence Seaway days. At Midland, king of the Great Lakes wheat and coal ports, you will witness the interaction between steam locomotives and ships. On the Orillia and Blackwater station platforms you will behold a parade of trains. There will be encounters with freight engines wrestling stone tonnage from Kirkfield and Uhthoff. You will explore the industrial landscape of Peterboro and climb aboard trains for leisurely rides to Coboconk and Haliburton. Permeating every setting will be the wondrous Age of Steam. In your imagination, a chorus of whistles will sound from the coal-stoked boilers of locomotives, ships and factories alike. Plumes of steam and trails of smoke will rise in the sky as a reminder that the world is at work. You will discover an era where daily routines are regulated by the sounds of steam whistles. It is all here for you. Savour every page as you step back to the past in Steam Memories of Lindsay.
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