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Canadian Pacific
Stand Fast, Craigellachie!
Greg McDonnell
| Boston Mills Press |
| World rights |
| 09/14/2006 |
| Book Website |
| 240 pages, 11 1/2" x 9 3/4" x 3/4" | |||||
| 350 color photographs, 50 black and white photographs | |||||
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A tribute to one of North America's great 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 and including Nova Scotia's Dominion Atlantic lines and Vancouver Island's Esquimalt and Nanaimo. Some of the best steam and diesel photographs ever published appear here, along with 1 950s-vintage photos of steeple-cab electrics and passenger trains on the Electric Lines subsidiaries, the Grand River Railway and the Lake Erie and Northern. Canadian Pacific captures the pleasure of lingering in wood-frame stations where time was marked to the beat of a Seth Thomas clock, the stainless-steel glamour of The Canadian, the gritty drama of SD4Os grinding up mountain grades, and the loneliness of a prairie wayfreight peddling grain empties. |
Greg McDonnell has spent a lifetime observing, photographing and writing about railroads. His writing and photography appear in North America's leading rail publications. His first of numerous books, The History of Canadian Railroads, was published in 1985. He is also the series editor for Boston Mills' Masters of Railroad Photography series. He lives in Cambridge, Ontario. |
Foreword
Preface: Stand fast!
Dedication: No One Said It Would Be Easy
The World's Greatest Travel System
Electric Lines
Stand Fast, Craigellachie!
Sweating the Assets
Twenty-Eight Sixteen
Lest We Forget
Not Fade Away
Afterword: O.S. Orrs Lake



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If you're a Canadian Pacific fan, this book is a must-have. And if you're not a CP fan, you'll become one after reading it.
- MTH Railroaders Club magazine 2008 12
[Globe and Mail 2006 Holiday Gift Book selection] An oversized volume of fabulous train photos.
- Globe and Mail 2006 12 09
The trains are pretty and the scenery is lovely. What more is needed?
- Globe and Mail 2003 11 22
A magnificent collection of photography covering the entire CP rail system... the book captures the magic that is the Canadian Pacific Railway.
- PhotoLife 2004 01
The attention to detail is superb... MacDonnell has given life to the photos.
- Canadian Camera 2004 04
Features 240 pages of not only Greg's [McDonnell] excellent photography but also some fantastic photos of many well known Railfan Photographers... This is a truly spectacular volume.
- Paul Brown Branchline [Bytown Railway Society] 2004 02
Insightful text and splendid illustrations.
- David J. Mrozek Michigan Railfan 2005 05
A train aficionado's dream collection of archival and current photos.
- Macleans 2003 12 08
Recommended reading... This beautiful work is a tribute in words and photographs from Greg McDonnell, who writes with knowledge and affection... But the photos... are the stars here.
- Robert S. McGonigal Trains 2004 01
A gorgeous book, with photos of old and new trains and some wonderful Canadian landscape.
- Bill Robertson Saskatoon Star Phoenix 2003 12 13
Jammed full of technical and historical details... many enjoyable and interesting photographs.
- Don Denton Victoria Times-Colonist 2003 12 21
There are enough details and facts to satisfy any true railroad historian, while the pictures show the beauty of those trains.
- Lynn Crothers Winnipeg Free Press 2003 12 07
The subject has a grand and glorious history... It is as if McDonnell asked his best friends to supply their favorites [photographs] for publication in this special tribute volume.
- Bryce Lee RailPace Magazine 2003 12
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