Two Divisions to Bluewater: The Story of The CNR to The Bruce by Peter Bowers

Today as you look down the deserted, weed-grown right-of-way of Canadian National's lines in Midwestern Ontario, it is hard to picture the days when they were alive with passenger, mixed and freight trains scurrying up and down the line; all attempting to produce the revenues needed for survival. Probably no area in Canada can claim to have been better photographed than the Palmerston district. Then almost overnight the steam engines disappeared and within a few months it was all over for daytime passenger trains and the mail services. This book generally portrays the railway in its last ten years of steam operation, but it does not forget the formative years or the decline of the eighties. So relax and enjoy a trip down the rails of the branch lines to Bluewater where you will witness "the way it was" through an extensive selection of photographs, few of which have ever been published before.

Peter Bowers, 1983

Hardcover, Very Good (Dust Jacket is torn at the bottom of the front)

168 pages

896g

28.9 x 22.5 x 1.5 cm