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Steam Over Palmerston by Ian Wilson CNR branchline hub in the 1950s w/ DJ
Steam Over Palmerston by Ian Wilson
CNR branchline hub in the 1950s
Hard Cover w/DJ
192 pages
Copyright 2001
CONTENTS
Introduction: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - 6
Chapter 1 - Out to the branchlines: MORNING AT PALMERSTON - 14
Chapter 2To the windswept shore of Lake Huron: THE KINCARDINE SUBDIVISION - 36 THE COLOURFUL PALMERSTON LINES - 53
Chapter 3 - Furniture, fields and grain boxcars by the thousands: THE OWEN SOUND SUBDIVISION - 61
Chapter 4Great Lakes Elevator and coal by clamshell: OWEN SOUND - 90
Chapter 5The Park Head Shuttle: OWEN SOUND TO WIARTON - 108
Chapter 6 North end of the Fergus Subdivision: GUELPH TO PALMERSTON - 118
Chapter 7Elm trees, country roads and Ten Wheelers: THE SOUTHAMPTON SUBDIVISION - 126
Chapter 8Into the pit: THE DURHAM SUBDIVISION - 148
Chapter 9 - In from the branchlines: AFTERNOON AT PALMERSTON - 154
Appendices:
Palmerston Locomotives - 188
Train Profiles - 190
Acknowledgements - 192
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
Turn back the pages of time and behold the tranquility and charm of Canada's most fascinating branchline railway operation, centred at Palmerston, Ontario on the CNR Stratford Division. From the iron footbridge spanning the Palmerston yard, observe more than two dozen passenger trains, mixeds, way freights and manifests arriving and departing from the division point every day. Peek into the roundhouse, that most hallowed of railway buildings, and watch the steam locomotives being readied for their assignments. Witness the less-than-carload freight transfer operation at Palmerston, grain extras from Owen Sound and livestock specials from Bruce County. Study the switching activities of the daily trains at Harriston, Chesley, Tara, Mildmay, Hanover and Wingham. See the engines being turned and serviced at Kincardine, Wiarton, Southampton, Durham and Owen Sound. Descriptive narrative, 282 black & white and colour images, locomotive and train profiles, timetables and track diagrams complete the picture of the day-to-day life of a CNR division point in the steam era. Steam Over Palmerston is a study of branchline trains, small railway stations, rural countryside and steam locomotives. Third in a series, it follows the award-winning Steam At Allendale (sold out) and To Stratford Under Steam.
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