ISBN
0-9683815-5-3ISBN
0-9683815-5-3
Hardcover, 192 pages (15 colour), 9 1/2" x 11 1/2"
Synopsis
Steam in Northern Ontario
documents operations on the CNR Northern Ontario District mainline from the Don Valley in
Toronto to the Lake Superior region. Behold Mikados and F-units hauling manifest freight
through remote territory patrolled by school cars. Watch bullet-nosed Mountains with the
solid green heavyweight cars of the Continental wend their way across a landscape of
lakes, streams and evergreens as far as the eye can see. Explore the switching operations
of Consolidations handling pulpwood, lumber, coal and paper against a backdrop of log
booms and pulp and paper mills between Longlac and Port Arthur. Travel behind a Pacific
aboard an all-night local passenger train, an express extra or a weekly mixed. Observe the
connections with the Ontario Northland at North Bay and the Algoma Central at Oba. From
section houses and water tanks at remote sidings to the coal docks, roundhouses, icing
platforms and division point stations at South Parry, Capreol, Foleyet, Hornepayne,
Jellicoe, Nakina and Armstrong, this is single track mainline operation at its finest.
Sixth in a series of books by Ian Wilson documenting CNR operations during the 1950s, the
192-page Steam in Northern Ontario is laden with photographs,
track maps, locomotive rosters, train profiles, time tables and descriptions of
operations.
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