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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

Click here to order your copy.

Upcoming Events

Tue Oct 07 @ 7:30PM - 09:30PM
Railroad Night Photography - Steve Barry
Tue Nov 04 @ 7:30PM - 09:30PM
Jim Walders photographs of CN and CP steam in Ontario in the 1950s - John Riddell
Tue Dec 02 @ 7:30PM - 09:30PM
Ontario Northland - Mike Robin
Tue Jan 06 @ 7:30PM - 09:30PM
Annual General Meeting
Tue Feb 03 @ 7:30PM - 09:30PM
VIA Historical Association - Jason Shron

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