A tribute to one of North America's great railway companies.

This landmark tribute to the Canadian Pacific Railway features the work of many of North America's top rail photographers. Remarkable photography and essays cover the entire CPR system, from the east coast to the west coast and including Nova Scotia's Dominion Atlantic lines and Vancouver Island's Esquimalt and Nanaimo. Some of the best steam and diesel photographs ever published appear here, along with 1 950s-vintage photos of steeple-cab electrics and passenger trains on the Electric Lines subsidiaries, the Grand River Railway and the Lake Erie and Northern.

Canadian Pacific captures the pleasure of lingering in wood-frame stations where time was marked to the beat of a Seth Thomas clock, the stainless-steel glamour of The Canadian, the gritty drama of SD4Os grinding up mountain grades, and the loneliness of a prairie wayfreight peddling grain empties.

Greg McDonnell is the author of 10 books on a wide range of transportation subjects and a professional photojournalist for railroad publications in the United States and Canada. He received the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society's Fred A. and Jane R. Stindt Photography Award for significant contribution to the photographic interpretation of North America's railroading history. He lives in Cambridge, Ontario.

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The attention to detail is superb... MacDonnell has given life to the photos.

Canadian Camera

A gorgeous book, with photos of old and new trains and some wonderful Canadian landscape.

Saskatoon Star Phoenix

The subject has a grand and glorious history... It is as if McDonnell asked his best friends to supply their favorites [photographs] for publication in this special tribute volume.

RailPace Magazine

There are enough details and facts to satisfy any true railroad historian, while the pictures show the beauty of those trains.

Winnipeg Free Press

If you're a Canadian Pacific fan, this book is a must-have. And if you're not a CP fan, you'll become one after reading it.

MTH Railroaders Club magazine

Insightful text and splendid illustrations.

Michigan Railfan

Recommended reading... This beautiful work is a tribute in words and photographs from Greg McDonnell, who writes with knowledge and affection... But the photos... are the stars here.

Trains

A magnificent collection of photography covering the entire CP rail system... the book captures the magic that is the Canadian Pacific Railway.

PhotoLife

Features 240 pages of not only Greg's [McDonnell] excellent photography but also some fantastic photos of many well known Railfan Photographers... This is a truly spectacular volume.

Branchline [Bytown Railway Society]

Jammed full of technical and historical details... many enjoyable and interesting photographs.

Victoria Times-Colonist

A train aficionado's dream collection of archival and current photos.

Macleans

[Globe and Mail 2006 Holiday Gift Book selection] An oversized volume of fabulous train photos. The trains are pretty and the scenery is lovely. What more is needed?

Globe and Mail