Steel Passageways 'Up the Valley' Volume 1 & 2 Introduction
Steel Passageways 'Up the Valley' Volume 1 & 2 Hard Cover Brand new asking $350. or best offer .
The photography in Steel Passageways 'Up the Valley', Trains of the Ottawa Valley, Volume 1, focuses on through-service operations over Canadian Pacific Railway's Carleton Place, Chalk River and North Bay Subdivisions over the past 30 years leading up to the abandonment of the railway between Smiths Falls and Mattawa, Ontario in 2011. Your trip down memory lane begins with a glimpse of CP Rail passenger service in the 1970s. You then get to experience a time when VIA Rail Canada operated a direct passenger train service between Montreal and Sudbury via Ottawa, the Nation's Capital. The book's photographic content then takes you up close and personal with the CPR's transcontinental freight service during the days when the company moved its own overhead traffic through the Valley prior to the fall of 1996. Later, after the line was leased and operated by RaiLink Limited's RaiLink-Ottawa Valley, and finally RailAmerica's Ottawa Valley Railway, let the book take you trackside for a view of modern railroading along the Mattawa Route in some of the finest photographic settings east of Superior. Finally, take a photographic trip to the end of the line as history unfolds from August, 2011 to October, 2013, and the railway is dismantled between Smiths Falls and Mattawa, Ontario. This book lets you see a segment of Canada's first transcontinental railway like you have never done so in the past, and can never do so in the future.
