Steam Memories of Lindsay release in March 2010
Work on the Lindsay book is proceeding apace, but we have notified, in writing, all of our individual pre-publication purchasers and dealers of a rescheduled release date, for March 2010.
Briefly, this decision has been made in the interest of producing a top quality volume in line with previous releases. Steam Memories of Lindsay could have been released this month, but the depth and presentation would have suffered greatly.
Over the years, I have spoken with many people who are yearning for the "Ian Wilson" treatment of the network of branchlines radiating out of Lindsay. There have been a few excellent publications over the past quarter century which have covered various aspects of GTR/CNR Lindsay area history. Nonetheless, the consensus is that we need to have a re-creation of the fascinating operational details of this territory during the dramatic steam-diesel transition era (the overhwhelmingly popular time period among modelers, historians and enthusiasts).
Despite the very occasional individual who whines 'I don't see why he wants to do this when it has already been covered in detail' (and I always delight in showing otherwise), Steam Memories of Lindsay will not be a rehash, but rather a brand new kindling of a CNR railway network which has never been portrayed in the moment-to-moment, gritty, action-packed detail of all its glory of 1954. Not to mention the specifics so greatly sought by railway modelers and enthusiasts--just how much coal was shipped out of Century Coal in Midland day after day? (hint: it was not insignificant). What kind of grain tonnage moved over the Midland and Campbellford Subdivisions? (enough to put every other Bay Port and Goderich to shame). And why were hundreds of carloads of logs shipped onto the Haliburton Subdivision every year (later to be shipped out again)? And was the lumber era really and truly over in Haliburton County after 1920, with the Haliburton Subdivision never fulfilling its potential? (tell that to the lumbermen, railwaymen and forest overseers of the 1940-59 era.).
All this, and more, awaits in Steam Memories of Lindsay, but much work remains to be done. If I neglect this blog for any reason, it is in the interest of the finished product.
Briefly, this decision has been made in the interest of producing a top quality volume in line with previous releases. Steam Memories of Lindsay could have been released this month, but the depth and presentation would have suffered greatly.
Over the years, I have spoken with many people who are yearning for the "Ian Wilson" treatment of the network of branchlines radiating out of Lindsay. There have been a few excellent publications over the past quarter century which have covered various aspects of GTR/CNR Lindsay area history. Nonetheless, the consensus is that we need to have a re-creation of the fascinating operational details of this territory during the dramatic steam-diesel transition era (the overhwhelmingly popular time period among modelers, historians and enthusiasts).
Despite the very occasional individual who whines 'I don't see why he wants to do this when it has already been covered in detail' (and I always delight in showing otherwise), Steam Memories of Lindsay will not be a rehash, but rather a brand new kindling of a CNR railway network which has never been portrayed in the moment-to-moment, gritty, action-packed detail of all its glory of 1954. Not to mention the specifics so greatly sought by railway modelers and enthusiasts--just how much coal was shipped out of Century Coal in Midland day after day? (hint: it was not insignificant). What kind of grain tonnage moved over the Midland and Campbellford Subdivisions? (enough to put every other Bay Port and Goderich to shame). And why were hundreds of carloads of logs shipped onto the Haliburton Subdivision every year (later to be shipped out again)? And was the lumber era really and truly over in Haliburton County after 1920, with the Haliburton Subdivision never fulfilling its potential? (tell that to the lumbermen, railwaymen and forest overseers of the 1940-59 era.).
All this, and more, awaits in Steam Memories of Lindsay, but much work remains to be done. If I neglect this blog for any reason, it is in the interest of the finished product.
posted by Ian Wilson at 12:36 PM
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