This magnificent book captures the drama, intensity, vitality and poignancy of Canadian railroading with simply the best photographs available anywhere and a moving text by railfan Greg McDonnell. As a nation, Canada owes its very existence to the railroad. Discover the magic and glory that was, and is, Canadian railroading.

Signatures in Steel

McDonnell, Greg

Boston Mills Pr

Field Guide to Modern Diesel Locomotives

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Kalmbach Pub. Co

The History of Canadians Railroads

New Burlington Books, London

Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, the five states featured in this spectacular collection, once boasted nearly 45,000 route-miles of railroad within their boundaries.Photographs by the author and many other talented rail photographers capture the essence and the spirit of railroading in America's heartland.

Heartland

Biographies & Memoirs

Boston Mills Press

General Electric's legendary domestic U-series line put GE on the road to becoming the largest locomotive builder in North America. This marvelous book features the work of more than 50 top photographers and pays homage to the bold dreams of the GE designers and workers who brought to life the locomotives today known as U-boats.

U-Boats: General Electric's Diesel Locomotives

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

This magnificent book captures the drama, intensity, vitality and poignancy of Canadian railroading with simply the best photographs available anywhere and a moving text by railfan Greg McDonnell. As a nation, Canada owes its very existence to the railroad. Discover the magic and glory that was, and is, Canadian railroading.

Signatures In Steel

Passing Trains examines the changing face of Canadian railroading over the past 50 years and features the work of more than two dozen of North America's finest railroad photographers. With over 200 color photographs, as well as gallery-quality black-and-whites, this book takes us back in time for an intimate view of old-order railroading and how it has evolved.

Passing Trains: The Changing Face of Canadian Railroading

As the twenty-first century marches forward, the country grain elevator rapidly nears extinction. These classic wooden structures once used to store grain are being torn down by the hundreds along with thousands of miles of railway branchlines. A proud and honored way of life is coming to end. 
 Wheat Kings is a lavishly illustrated and poignantly written look at the passing of the traditional northern prairie grain elevators and the communities and railcars that served them. The book includes photographs of grain elevators from numerous small prairie towns. Also included are images of the region's train stations, churches, farms and commercial buildings, many abandoned. 
 The book is organized by six concise essays. These include:
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<li>Wheat Kings: brief history of grain elevators</li> <li>Of Peddlers, Pullers and Tramps: the prairie railroad system</li> <li>Something Big on the Horizon: concrete high-capacity super elevators</li> <li>McMahon - Hard Times on the Prairies: a forgotten town</li> <li>The Last Harvest: an elevator comes down</li> <li>Buffalo Bones: the end of the railroad grain cars.</li> </ul>
 Wheat Kings is a chronicle of the end of an era as witnessed by one of North America's best-known and most-respected railroad writers and photographers. This book is sure to fascinate railway enthusiasts, transportation historians, and anyone interested in the changing worlds of farming and railroading.

Wheat Kings: Vanishing Landmarks of the Canadian Prairies

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Each new railway book by writer-photographer Greg McDonnell is cause for celebration in the North American railfan community. Rites of Passage, a look at over three decades of transition and changes along Canada's rail lines, is his most personal book to date. "For what it's worth," McDonnell writes in his introductory essay, "what follows on these pages is personal, a collection of images and essays drawn from a 35-year effort to capture and chronicle the magic of Canadian railroading, an effort that began with a young boy pointing a borrowed Brownie at a pair of olive-green GMD1's looming out of the early morning fog in Kitchener and quickly grew to be a lifetime avocation, if not a vocation." Rites of Passage is vintage McDonnell, a sensual feast of boiler steam and diesel smoke, high iron and midnight runs across the prairies, wistful memories and critical analysis.

Rites of Passage: A Canadian Railway Retrospective

A tribute to one of North America's oldest still running railway companies. 
 This landmark tribute to the Canadian Pacific Railway features the work of many of North America's top rail photographers. Remarkable photography and essays cover the entire CPR system, from the east coast to the west coast including Nova Scotia's Dominion Atlantic lines and Vancouver Island's Esquimalt &amp; Nanaimo. Some of the best steam and diesel photographs ever published appear here along with 1950s-vintage photos of steeple-cab electrics and passenger trains on the Electric Lines subsidiaries: the Grand River Railway and the Lake Erie &amp; Northern. 
 Canadian Pacific Railway captures the pleasure of lingering in wood-frame stations where time was marked to the beat of a Seth Thomas clock, the stainless-steel glamor of the Canadian, the gritty drama of SD40s grinding up mountain grades, and the loneliness of the prairie.

Canadian Pacific: Stand Fast, Craigellachie!

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