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Canadian Branchline

Telling the story of steam railway operations in Ontario, Canada during the 1950s. By Ian Wilson.

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🚂 Speed Graphics and Steam 1957! pages 9 to 16

Our new Philip and Oliver Horning edition, next eight pages

🚂 Speed Graphics and Steam 1957! release

Our new Philip and Oliver Horning edition, first eight pages

🚂 Speed Graphics and Steam 1957! preview video 3

An overview of surviving steam operations in Southwestern Ontario circa October 1957

🚂 Speed Graphics and Steam 1957! preview video 2

Travel and weather conditions as we set out from Ohio to photograph steam in Ontario on October 25, 1957

🚂 Speed Graphics and Steam 1957! preview video 1

Phil Horning's roots in Rocky River, Ohio and how they lead him to Ontario, Canada with his dad in October 1957

🚂 Announcing: NEW Speed Graphics and Steam 1957! title

An all-digital volume chronicling an October 1957 photographic trip to Ontario

🚂 1938 Gravenhurst Part 11: The new T&NO passenger cars of 1936

Let's inspect the new arrivals of December 1936

🚂 Giant, MAMMOTH locomotives come to the T&NO (Gravenhurst Part 10)

The northernmost Northerns on the continent arrive in North Bay

🚂 1938 Gravenhurst Part 09: Early T&NO steam power on trains 46 and 47

Conventional Pacifics, then Pacifics with boosters

Gravenhurst 1938 posts grouped for easy reference

How to read all the parts in one place!

🚂 1938 Gravenhurst Part 08: Joint T&NO - GTR/CNR passenger trains 46 and 47

Day trains on the T&NO, overnight sleepers on the GTR/CNR

Canadian National, Canadian Pacific and Wabash at Windsor, Ontario in 1956

Watch now | Colour movie footage of steam and diesel action at the waterfront

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🚂 1938 Gravenhurst Part 07: Joint T&NO - GTR passenger trains 46 and 47 through The Great War

Day trains on the T&NO, overnight sleepers on the GTR/CNR

Instructions for reading all of my Canadian Branchline posts

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🚂 CNR Pacific 5108 on a mission of mercy (1938 Gravenhurst Part 06)

A dramatic fast run from North Bay to Toronto on February 24, 1936

Final call for calendar orders, six days left

Orders can be received up to December 22

🚂 1938 Gravenhurst Part 05: Final development of the surrounding railway network

The last railway construction takes place to define operating patterns for our study

🚂 1938 Gravenhurst Part 04: Further development of the surrounding railway network

Operating patterns in view of the advent of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario

All calendar orders shipped; a few remain

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Now shipping: 2026 calendar

Limited edition, going out the door