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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

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$47.95 CAD (postpaid, taxes included)

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Please note: Import duties, taxes, and charges are not included in the item price or shipping charges. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. 

$46.95 USD (postpaid, taxes included)

Ship Internationally

$74.00 CAD (air mail)

Can't wait for the latest Canadian Trackside Guide®? Need something right now?

We have copies of some of the out-of-print editions. In most cases, less than 20 copies remain. Here is a chance to fill gaps in your set at a discount and get a picture of Canadian Railroading as it was in previous years. Guides tend to be 500 to 800 pages depending on the edition and contain the information as follows.

• 5½" x 8½", Softcover, approximately 500 to 800 pages depending on the year
• Locomotives of Canadian National Railway (including Illinois Central), Canadian Pacific Railway, VIA Rail Canada, Regional and Shortline Railways, plus all Industrial locomotives; Urban Rail Transit; Passenger Cars; Cabooses, Work Service Cars, and other Non-revenue Equipment
• Preserved Canadian Locomotives and Equipment
• Excursion train schedules
• Subdivision details for all railways: station names, mileposts, radio frequencies, talking detector locations, divisional maps, detailed maps of major rail centres

The only comprehensive guide to Canadian railways, including US-based operations.

All prices include shipping and appropriate taxes.

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Backissues - Ship to Canada 1999 TSG $29.95 CAD 2020 TSG $29.95 CAD

Backissues - Ship to Canada 1999 TSG $29.95 CAD 2020 TSG $29.95 CAD

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Please Note: Import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price or shipping charges. These charges are the buyer's responsibility.

Backissues - Ship to USA 1999 TSG US$28.95 2020 TSG US$28.95

Backissues - Ship to USA 1999 TSG US$28.95 2020 TSG US$28.95

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Contact Us to inquire about available past issues.

Just after the 2022 Canadian Trackside Guide went to press, CP changed a slew of their train numbers. Dave Stremes managed to get a list of the changes, and has compiled a PDF file of them.

[Update] August 21, 2022 Document has been updated to reflect a small change from what was first published.

Please click on the link below to open the PDF file.

Our 2019 Canadian Trackside Guide is missing the Mount Clemens Sub, and there is some duplication.

Replacement pages are available for download (links below) which can then be printed (recommended 95%) and placed/pasted in the proper location. 

We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Bytown Railway Society Publications Committee

Canadian Trackside Guide Errata Files

March 2018, we discovered (along with some of our steely-eyed customers) that there are missing pages in the guide. Basically Section 14 Guide to Canadian Railways, pages 12, 13 and 15 are blank. Here's a formal response from Publications Committee:

Due to an error in the consolidation process, three pages in Section 14 Guide to Canadian Railways, pages 12, 13 and 15 are blank, and this error was unfortunately not noticed during subsequent review steps. 

Replacement pages are available for download here which can then be printed and placed in the proper location. 

We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Bytown Railway Society Publications Committee

If you've already ordered the Guide, we apologize and offer a link to a PDF file for the missing pages.

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Freight Cars 1900 - 1960

by John Riddell

CC&F – a major builder of both freight and passenger cars.

• soft cover, 200 pages
• 8-1/2 x 11”
• featuring a history of component companies
• over 370 black and white images of CC&F equipment taken by company photographers
• some images from as far back as 1898
• includes chapters on: boxcars, automobile, refrigerator and stock cars, Hart-Otis dump cars, gondolas, open and covered hoppers, flat cars, tank cars, snow plows, cabooses and boarding cars 

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$64.95 CAD (postpaid, taxes included)

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$64.95 USD (postpaid, taxes included)

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$74.95.00 CAD air mail

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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, Inc.

For orders outside Canada and the United States, please Contact Us for prices.

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$59.95 CAD taxes and shipping included.

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$59.95 USD taxes and shipping included.

This award-winning book* traces the history of the Hamilton and Northwestern Railway from its construction and ownership by the Grand Trunk to the takeover and eventual abandonment by Canadian National Railways. The book is loaded with detailed information on the railway's history in words and photographs. It also includes photos and plans for many of the stations, bridges, and culverts.

Due to Increased Canada Post charges, the Canadian price has increased in July 2023

$32.95 CAD ($34.95 USD for US orders), taxes and shipping included.

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*Canadian Railroad Historical Association 2002 Book Award

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$32.95 CAD, taxes and shipping included.

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$34.95 USD, taxes and shipping included.

"Levis Tramways Company" is author Tom Grumley's latest account of one of the smaller of the many streetcar systems in Canada. The book traces the history of the streetcar system on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River across from Quebec City. From it's start in 1902 as the Levis Electric Railway, to the Levis County Railway, to it's final name of Levis Tramways Company in 1916, this book covers the entire history. It is in the same format as previous ones in the Traction Series and has 36 pages with colourized photos on the front and back covers.

$19.95, taxes and shipping included.

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$19.95 CAD taxes and shipping included.

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$19.95 USD taxes and shipping included.

This award-winning book* is Tom Grumley's second on Montreal Streetcars in the Society's Traction Heritage Series. Thoroughly researched, it includes 54 photographs (23 in colour) plus a bonus - a large colour fold-out map of the 1929 Montreal Tramway Company system. Montreal Streetcars Volume 2 includes comprehensive captions and additional information, this time about the people and places around the streetcar system.

$14.95 taxes and shipping included.

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*Canadian Railroad Historical Association 2006 Book Award

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$14.95 CAD taxes and shipping included.

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$14.95 USD taxes and shipping included.

Our award-winning author, Thomas Grumley, has researched and written a third book on Montreal streetcars in the Society's continuing Traction Series publications. With photos and text, he has brought to life the many scenic areas of Montreal that were once served by the city's extensive streetcar system.

$19.95 taxes and shipping included.

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Ship to Canada

$19.95 CAD taxes and shipping included.

Ship to the United States

Please note: Import duties, taxes, and charges are not included in the item price or shipping charges. These charges are the buyer's responsibility.

$19.95 USD taxes and shipping included.