Smiths Falls Ontario - The photography in "Steel Passageways Up the Valley" Trains of the Ottawa Valley Volume 1, focuses on through-service operations over Canadian Pacific Railway's Carleton Place, Chalk River, and North Bay Subdivisions over the past 30 years leading up to the abandonment of the railway between Smiths Falls and Mattawa, Ontario, in 2011.
 
Your trip down memory lane begins with a glimpse of CP Rail passenger service in the 1970s.
 
You then get to experience a time when VIA Rail Canada operated a direct passenger train service between Montreal and Sudbury via Ottawa, the Nation's Capital.
 
The book's photographic content then takes you up close and personal with the CPR's transcontinental freight service during the days when the company moved its own overhead traffic through the Valley prior to the fall of 1996.
 
Later, after the line was leased and operated by RaiLink Limited's RaiLink-Ottawa Valley, and finally RailAmerica's Ottawa Valley Railway, let the book take you trackside for a view of modern railroading along the Mattawa Route in some of the finest photographic settings east of Superior.
 
Finally, take a photographic trip to the end of the line as history unfolds from August, 2011 to October, 2013, and the railway is dismantled between Smiths Falls and Mattawa, Ontario.
 
This book lets you see a segment of Canada's first transcontinental railway like you have never done so in the past, and can never do so in the future.
 
314 pages (13 x 11 inches (33 x 28 centimetres) on standard paper $170.59
 
The book is available ON-LINE ONLY at www.blurb.ca.
 
A complete preview of the book is available at their web site if one searches for the book title "Steel Passageways".
 
The book is printed on-demand and available in hardcover only.
 
A dust jacketed copy retails for $167.59, with an image wrapped copy costing $170.59.
 
"Promo codes" are often available on-line that will reduce the total purchase cost of the book by anywhere from 15-20 percent.
 
A book can often be purchased for approximately $145, shipping and taxes included.
 
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