ISBN 0-9683815-3-7

Hardcover, 192 pages (15 colour),  9 1/2" x 11 1/2"

Synopsis

Turn back the clock and relive the drama of mainline steam action at the operational hub of Southwestern Ontario in the pages of Steam Through London, fourth in a series of books documenting CNR division points during the 1950s. Witness a parade of manifest freights and name trains pounding along the double track from Windsor and Sarnia to Komoka, through London, Woodstock, Paris, Brantford and Dundas to Bayview Junction. At London, visit the service track where steam locomotives are nourished at the massive coaling trestle, stroll into the roundhouse and watch the engines being readied for assignments, behold the switching operations at the large division point yard, or walk along the station platform beside the Inter City Limited, La Salle, International Limited, Maple Leaf, Forest City, or Businessmen’s Special. For a change of pace, venture onto the Exeter Subdivision at Hyde Park

The track maps, locomotive rosters, train profiles, time tables and description of day-to-day operations which characterize predecessor volumes Steam at Allandale, To Stratford Under Steam and Steam Over Palmerston return with a flurry. The 192-page casebound Steam Through London is laden with dramatic steam era photographs ranging from the loading of sugar beets in autumn at Centralia to Northerns coaling in a matter of seconds under the concrete dock at Paris Junction; from freight truckers muscling less-than-carload packages into boxcars to the night time repose of locomotives at Windsor in front of a glowing Detroit skyline; from passenger trains arriving at the majestic Brantford station to the simmering locomotives on the London ready track; from doodlebugs slithering along a grassy branchline to doubleheaded freights thundering up the Niagara Escarpment at Dundas.

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