NOW SHIPPING! Canadian Trackside Guide® 2025
Updated to include all the information you need, including the CPKC's Mexico Subs, maps and more.
The 2025 edition of the Canadian Trackside Guide® is the Bytown Railway Society’s 43rd edition. Now expanded to cover 800 updated 5½” x 8½” pages current to February 1, 2025
Edited by David Stremes
Cover Photo: Carlin Doeksen
The only comprehensive guide to Canadian Railways and their US and Mexican subsidiaries.
- Locomotives of CN, CPKC, VIA, plus Regionals and Industrials
- Preserved equipment
- Passenger cars
- Urban rail transit
- Cabooses
- Non-revenue equipment
- Radio frequencies
- Passenger train schedules
- Freight train numbers
- Railway reporting marks
- Detailed divisional maps and subdivision listings for all Canadian railways and their U.S. and Mexican components, including station names, mileposts, detectors, siding lengths, and more
- Maps of major Canadian cities detailing rail lines
In order to increase the dissemination of information of preserved railway equipment in Canada, the Bytown Railway Society is pleased to provide "Part 3 Preserved Railway and Traction Equipment" section from the 2024 edition of the Canadian Trackside Guide. It is available via the link below. If you have any comments or updates, please send them to tsg at bytownrailwaysociety dot ca.
The Bytown Railway Society is a volunteer, non-profit organization incorporated under federal government statute whose objective is to facilitate, aid and promote an interest in Canadian railway history and other related transportation and communications media; to own, preserve, acquire, maintain and restore artifacts or relics relating to the history of railways and other related transportation and communication media, and assist companion organizations in any of these.
