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1973.
The MacMillan Company.
Hardcover.
538 pages, 7 x 9 5/8 inches, $59.55 Amazon.
This book provides incite into the development of Canada and the use of its railroads to tie the country together. There are many explanations of how British capital provided a way for scantly populated Canada to grow and coalesce into a nation.
2004.
Motorbooks International.
Hardcover.
160 pages, 20.96 x 27.31 centimetres, $46.72 Amazon.
Author Tom Murray provides an unprecedented look at a national icon, from its genesis amid the turmoil surrounding World War I to its acquisition of the Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Railway and its lease of BC Rail, both in 2003. In addition to exploring Canadian National operations and equipment through the depression, war, modernization, and acquisitions, Murray explains how the railway affected and was influenced by the vast and varied regions it served. Marvelous photography from top shooters and Canadian archives along with period timetables and print ads illustrate CN's extraordinary geographic reach, diverse operations, and social and economic roles, both as a government entity for 70 plus years and more recently as a privatized company.
1992.
Douglas & McIntyre.
Hardcover.
328 pages, 17.78 x 25.4 centimetres, $18.86 Amazon.
The railway hysteria that swept this country in the nineteenth century left Canada with more railway miles per capita than any other country in the world. But when times turned bad, many of the railways began to fail. The Borden government stepped in, combining bankrupt private-enterprise lines and unprofitable patronage-ridden government lines into the first Crown corporation, Canadian National.
1976.
Railfare DC Books.
Paperback.
256 pages, 20.32 x 26.67 centimetres, $79.99 Amazon.
The premiere volume is an updated and expanded text based on Clegg & Corley's Canadian National Steam Power outlining the history and technical development of steam power as influenced by the different CNR Motive Power Chiefs. It includes a summary of all classes with wheel types, road and builder numbers, a list of all predecessor and subsequent owners of CNR power, a builders' list of CNR steam power, a bibliography, plus hundreds of photos. You'll get a guide to the individual locomotive roster volumes, plus an extensive series of appendices covering across-the-classes items such as livery, sales, leases, appliance application, (including compounding, gearing, superheating, feedwater heating, smoke deflectors, stokers, oil burners, cab and tender designs).
