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Steam to the Niagara Frontier by Ian Wilson CNR Operations in Peninsula w/ DJ
Steam to the Niagara Frontier by Ian Wilson
CNR Operations in the Peninsula during the 1950s
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket Damaged dust jacket
192 pages
Copyright 2004
CONTENTS
Introduction:
A STORY OF TEN ENGINES - 6
Chapter 1 - Switchers and the Suspension Bridge: MORNING AT NIAGARA FALLS - 12
Chapter 2 - Gateway to the Niagara Frontier: MORNING AT FORT ERIE - 46
Chapter 3Peaches, Bugs and the Red Onion: THE GRIMSBY SUBDIVISION - 74
Chapter 4 Pulpwood, Paper and the Niagara Escarpment: THE THOROLD SUBDIVISION - 102
Chapter 5 Big industry & fast freights through the Canal City: THE WELLAND SUBDIVISION - 114
Chapter 6 - Meeting the Welland Canal at Port Colborne: THE DUNNVILLE SUBDIVISION - 132
Chapter 7Onto the shop track: EVENING AT FORT ERIE - 150
Chapter 8Into the roundhouse: EVENING AT NIAGARA FALLS - 162
Appendices:
Niagara Falls Locomotives - 184
Fort Erie Locomotives - 186
Train Profiles - 187
Terminal Operating Procedures - 190
Acknowledgements - 192
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION Step back to the 1950s and witness exciting CNR mainline steam action in the Niagara Peninsula through the pages of Steam to the Niagara Frontier. Visit the Grimsby Subdivision, heart of the Niagara Fruit Belt, where refrigerator blocks of peaches are hustled from the platforms by express fruit extras; experience the contest with the Niagara Escarpment as multiple locomotives fight the steepest grade on the system south of Merritton; travel with the Thorold Switcher servicing paper plants along the Welland Canal; stand amid beautifully manicured grounds at Grimsby, St. Catharines and Niagara Falls stations while trains load express, mail and passengers; ride freight and mixed trains behind Pacifics and Mikados over the Dunnville Subdivision and across the Port Colborne lift bridge; watch heavy steam yard engines switch freight cars at Niagara Falls and Fort Erie; cross the Suspension and International Bridges on transfer runs; see Northern and Mikados being serviced on shop tracks between manifest freight assignments; and observe locomotives being fueled at massive timber coal docks. Fifth in a series of books by Ian Wilson documenting CNR steam operations during the 1950s, the 192-page Steam to the Niagara Frontier is laden with the dramatic photographs, track maps, locomotive rosters, train profiles, time tables and description of operations which characterize predecessor volumes.
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