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Steam Through London by Ian Wilson CNR mainline division point in the 1950s DJ
Steam Through London by Ian Wilson
CNR mainline division point in the 1950s
Hard Cover w/DJ
192 pages
Copyright 2003
CONTENTS
Introduction:
PARIS JUNCTION, MAY 9, 1959 - 6
Chapter 1 - Canada's most famous trainwatching spot: BAYVIEW - 10
Chapter 2 - Up the Niagara Escarpment: DUNDAS TO LYNDEN - 26
Chapter 3 - South end of the Fergus Subdivision: HARRISBURG TO GLENCHRISTIE - 40
Chapter 4 - Hamilton outpost and south to Tillsonburg: BRANTFORD - 56
Chapter 5 - Gravel, gravel and more gravel: PARIS - 76
Chapter 6 - The Ingersoll Switcher: PRINCETON TO DORCHESTER - 86
Chapter 7 - Mainline division point: LONDON - 96
Chapter 8 - Mainline action at Sarnia: THE STRATHROY SUBDIVISION - 138
Chapter 9 - Ghosts of the London, Huron er Bruce: HYDE PARK TO CLINTON - 150
Chapter 10 - The Chatham Turnaround: LONGWOOD & CHATHAM SUBDIVISIONS - 160
Chapter 11 - Detroit River terminal: WINDSOR - 172
Appendices:
London, Sarnia & Windsor Locomotives - 186
Train Profiles - 188
Acknowledgements - 192
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
Relive CNR mainline steam action at the operational hub of Southwestern Ontario. Witness a parade of freight and passenger trains pounding along the double track at Bayview, Dundas, Brantford, Paris, Woodstock, London, Chatham, Windsor and Sarnia. At London, visit the massive coaling trestle where steam locomotives are nourished, watch the engines being readied for assignments at the roundhouse, behold the switching operations at the Race Course Yard, or walk along the station platform. For a change of pace, venture onto the Fergus and Exeter Subdivisions. The track maps, locomotive roster, train profiles, time tables and description of day-to-day operations which characterize predecessor volumes Steam at Allandale, To Stratford Under Steam and Steam Over Palmerston return with a flurry. Steam Through London is laden with 293 images ranging from the loading of sugar beets at Centralia to Northern coaling in seconds under the concrete dock at Paris Junction; from freight truckers muscling 1.c.1. packages into boxcars to the night time repose of locomotives at Windsor in front of a glowing Detroit skyline; from passenger trains arriving at the majestic Brantford station to simmering locomotives on the London ready track; from doodlebugs slithering along a grassy branchline to doubleheaded freights thundering up the Niagara Escarpment at Dundas.
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