The Guide arrived at our 'warehouse' Monday, April 26th. Since then, all pre-orders have been fulfilled/shipped.

BRS Publications Committee

Completely redesigned! 

All the superb content you expect in an attractive new format – larger text, easier to read and to find the information you want, new map drawings.

The 2021 edition of the Canadian Trackside Guide® is the Bytown Railway Society’s 39th edition – contains 760 updated and expanded 5½” x 8½” pages current to Feb. 1, 2021.

The only comprehensive guide to Canadian Railways

Click here to visit our Canadian Trackside Guide page to order your copy.

For the foreseeable future, the in-person Tuesday evening monthly meetings remain cancelled.

Virtual presentations will be announced as they become available.  Please visit our Meetings/Events page for an up-to-date listing of upcoming events.

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“OS Don” is the story of author John F. Mellow’s early years working for the Canadian Pacific Railway in southern Ontario, giving readers a 1960s front row seat as the Canadian railway industry transitioned from traditional Morse-code telegraphy and train-orders to the present age of computer-assisted operations.

Mellow’s career as a train-order operator began at Toronto’s Don station in 1963. Before recalling his own experiences there and elsewhere on the CPR, he presents the history of Don station and its role in the operations of steam and diesel era CPR and CNR trains through Toronto’s scenic Don Valley.

A hardcover book measuring 8-1/2” x 11”, it has 128 pages with more than 160 colour and black and white photographs, as well as maps, steam locomotive assignments and a glossary.

A publication of The Bytown Railway Society.

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