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Transportation Pictorial

Passing Trains

The Changing Face of Canadian Railroading

by (author) Greg McDonnell

Publisher
Boston Mills Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2003
Category
Pictorial, History
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781550461831
    Publish Date
    Sep 2003
    List Price
    $50.00

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Description

Passing Trains examines the changing face of Canadian railroading over the past 50 years and features the work of more than two dozen of North America's finest railroad photographers. With over 200 color photographs, as well as gallery-quality black-and-whites, this book takes us back in time for an intimate view of old-order railroading and how it has evolved.

 

About the author

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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Editorial Reviews

McDonnell paints a brilliant and comprehensive picture of Canada's rails.

S Gaugian