Welcome to the blog of Ian Wilson, author of the award-winning books on 1950s Canadian steam railway operations.
In reviewing various steam-era images I’ve acquired over the years, I came across a number from Montreal taken over the period 1956 to 1958...
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And now, twenty one-year-old Angus finds himself in a quiet, unoccupied room. He sits down on a couch and looks around...
Angus finds himself standing—according to a sign and the sun—on the west side of Stavebank Road in Port Credit...
They were—then and now—standing on 8th Street East in Owen Sound, Ontario...
Angus stares down a double set of railway tracks. He’s peering eastward, by the look of the sun. Late afternoon, summer...
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