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Anderson, Garry W  Canadian Pacific's Trans-Canada Limited (1919 - 1930), British Railway Modellers of North America, 1990, pp34.  Large landscape format Pb.  VG.  A pictorial tribute to a famous Canadian Pacific express from Montreal to Vancouver.  £6.95

Canadian Pacific in the Rockies

Bain D M  Canadian Pacific in the Rockies Vol.1, British Railway Modellers of North America, 1993, pp26.  First published in 1978.  Large landscape format.  Card covers.  VG.  Pictorial with extended captions.  £5.95

Bain D M  Canadian Pacific in the Rockies Vol.2, British Railway Modellers of North America, 1980, pp26.  "Official Photocopy Reprint."  First published in 1978.  Large landscape format.  Stapled paper covers.  VG.  Pictorial with extended captions.  £3.95

Bain D M  Canadian Pacific in the Rockies Vol.3, British Railway Modellers of North America, 5th printing 1989, pp26.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  VG.  Revelstoke to Golden.  Pictorial with extended captions.  £5.95

Bain D M  Canadian Pacific in the Rockies Vol.4, British Railway Modellers of North America, 5th printing 1989, pp26.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  VG.  Notch Hill to Revelstoke and Armstrong to Sicamous.  Pictorial with extended captions.  £5.95

Bain D M  Canadian Pacific in the Rockies Vol.5, British Railway Modellers of North America, 5th printing 1989, pp26.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  VG.  Golden to Banff.  Pictorial with extended captions.  £5.95

Bain D M  Canadian Pacific in the Rockies Vol.6, British Railway Modellers of North America, 3rd printing 1986, pp26.  First published in 1980.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  VG.  Banff to Calgary, part of the Laggan Subdivision.   Pictorial with extended captions.  £5.95

Bain D M  Canadian Pacific in the Rockies Vol.7, British Railway Modellers of North America, 1981, pp26.  "Official Photocopy Reprint."  Large landscape format.  Stapled paper covers.  VG.  Pictorial with extended captions.  £3.95

Bain D M  Canadian Pacific in the Rockies Vol.8, British Railway Modellers of North America, 1982, pp26.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  VG.  The Canadian Pacific Railway in Southwestern Alberta.  Pictorial with extended captions.  £5.95

Bain D M  Canadian Pacific in the Rockies Vol.9, British Railway Modellers of North America, 1983, pp26.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  VG.  The Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway on Vancouver Island.  Pictorial with extended captions.  £5.95

Bain D M  Canadian Pacific in the Rockies Vol.10, British Railway Modellers of North America, 1985, pp26.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  VG.  The final volume in the series.  Pictorial with extended captions.  £5.95

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Bain D M and Phillips D R  Canadian Pacific in the West Vol.1, British Railway Modellers of North America, 1990, pp26.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  Very Good.  Pictorial with extensive captions.  Viewed as a continuation of the first authors Canadian Pacific in the Rockies series and following the same format.  £6.95

Bain, Donald M and Camp, Lance W  Cyril R. Littlebury's Canadian Pacific Railway - 1918 to 1933 Vol.1, British Railway Modellers of North America, 2002, pp77.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers. Very Good.  Photographs from one of Canada's greatest railway photographers, arranged as a photographic journey from Calgary to Vancouver.  £8.50

Baird, Ian  Canadian Pacific Stations in British Columbia, Orca Book Publishers, 1990, pp108.  Large Format.  Card Covers.  VG-.  Old price sticker on the front cover, slight wear to the edges of the covers. An illustrated survey.  £8.50

Berton, Pierre  The National Dream: The Great Railway 1871-1881, McClelland & Stewart, 1973, pp439.  Hb.  Very Good+  in a  Poor dust wrapper.  The dust wrapper is torn with a piece missing near the base of the spine.  The first volume of a definitive study of the struggle to build the Canadian Pacific and to bind Canada together as a single transcontinental nation.  £4.95 

Berton, Pierre  The Last Spike: The Great Railway 1881-1885, McClelland & Stewart, 1974, pp478.  Hb. Very Good in a Fair+ dust wrapper.  The second volume of a definitive study of the struggle to build the Canadian Pacific and to bind Canada together as a single transcontinental nation.  £4.95

Booth, Jan  Canadian Pacific in the Selkirks [Vol.1]: 100 Years in Rogers Pass, British Railway Modellers of North America, 2nd edition 1991, pp48.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  Very Good. Pictorial with extended captions.  £6.95

Booth, Jan  Canadian Pacific in the Selkirks Vol.2, British Railway Modellers of North America, 1993, pp34.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  Very Good.  Pictorial with extended captions.  £6.95

Boreskie, Joseph P  Canadian Steam in the Prairies, Towns and Cities, The Railroad Press, 2005, pp40.  Large Format.  Card Covers.  Very Good.  A pictorial album centred on Canadian National and Canadian Pacific lines west of Winnipeg with sections on the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.  £4.95

Brown, Ron  The Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More: An Illustrated History of Railway Stations in Canada, Broadview Press, 1998, pp200.  Large landscape format Pb.  VG+.  Brief inscription.  A major study of Canadian railway stations.  £7.50

Buck, George H  From Summit to Sea: An Illustrated History of Railroads in British Columbia and Alberta, Fifth House, 1997, pp202.  Large Format Hb.  VG in a VG dust wrapper.  A well-illustrated account of the construction and development of railroads in British Columbia and Alberta between 1880 and 1939, a time of tremendous growth and expansion of the railroads and populations of the two provinces.  £8.50

Burrows, Roger G  Railway Mileposts: British Columbia Vol.1: The CPR Mainline Route from the Rockies to the Pacific including the Okanagan Routes and CN's Canyon Route, Railway Milepost Books, 1981, pp152.  Large Format.  Card Covers.  Fair+.  Superficial wear to the covers, particularly down the spine.  A reference work detailing the rail infrastructure in British Columbia.  £8.50

Burrows, Roger G  Railway Mileposts: British Columbia Vol.2: The Southern Routes from the Crowsnest to the Coquihalla including the Great Northern and Kettle Valley Routes, Railway Milepost Books, 1984, pp152.  Large Format.  Card Covers.  Fair.  Wear to the covers, particularly down the spine; creasing across the two rear corners; old priced sticker on the rear cover.  A reference work detailing the rail infrastructure in British Columbia.  £8.50

(The) Canadian Pacific: The new highway to the East across the mountains, prairies & rivers of Canada, Railfare, pp45.  No date.  Card Covers.  Near VG with slight loss of colour on the covers.  An undated reprint of an illustrated booklet first published in 1887.  £2.95

Canadian Pacific Code of Safety Rules and Safe Practices, 1949, pp237.  Small format Pb. VG-.  There is a nick at the top edge of the covers which effects all the pages of the booklet.  A 1949 Canadian Pacific Rule Book.  £3.95

[Canadian] Uniform Code of Operating Rules, 1962, pp127.  Maroon covers with gold lettering on the front.  Card Covers.  VG.  "Approved and prescribed by the Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada." A 1962 Canadian Rule Book that applied to all the major Canadian railways including the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National.  £4.95

Clemson, Donovan  Old Wooden Buildings, Hancock House, 1978, pp96.  Large Format.  Card Covers. VG- with some superficial rubbing to the covers.  A collection of photographs of old wooden building in British Columbia with sections on Two Shuswaps, Ranching Country, In the Big Snow Country, Fraser Canyon Landmarks, Cariboo Relics and West to Skeena.  £2.95

Cook, Roger and Zimmermann, Karl  Magnetic North: Canadian Steam in Twilight, Boston Mills, 1999, pp160.  With additional photographs by Jim Shaughnessy, Don Wood and Others.  Brief inscription.  Large landscape format Hb.  VG+/VG+.  A well-illustrated tribute to the final years of steam in Eastern Canada.  £14.50

CP Rail General Operating Instructions, 1989, around 200 pages.  L. A. Linn. Vice-President Systems Operations.  Form CS44.  Item #667022.  Small format.  Card Covers.  VG- with slight wear to the edges of the covers.  A 1989 Canadian Pacific Rule Book.  £4.95

Davies, David Ll and Nicklason, Lorne  The CPR's English Bay Branch: The Intended Terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway Pacific Coast Division, Canadian Railroad Historical Association, 2nd edition 1993, pp80. Inscription.  Card Covers.  VG with some fading on the spine of the covers.  Date corrected in ink on page 30; entry circled on page 76 in the chronology.  An illustrated history of a short Canadian Pacific branch in Vancouver.  £6.95

Railways of Western Canada

Doeksen G  Kettle Valley Railway: Railways of Western Canada Vol.1, author, 2nd edition 1995, pp48.  The expanded second edition.  Large Format Hb.  VG- with slight wear to the edges of the covers. An album devoted to the Canadian Pacific's famous Kettle Valley line in Southern British Columbia.  £5.95

Doeksen G  Railways of the Boundary: Railways of Western Canada Vol.4, author, 1985, pp44.  Large Format.  Card Covers.  VG.  Vol.4 is an extension of Vol.3 and covers the CPR southern lines after they were extended to Grand Forks, Midway and Phoenix in 1900.  £6.95

Doeksen G  Railways of the West Kootenay Part 3: Railways of Western Canada Vol.5, author, 1988, pp48.  Large Format.  Card Covers.  VG.  Vol.5 depicts the operations of the Great Northern Railway and the Burlington Northern Railway in British Columbia.  The emphasis is on the West Kootenay. Operations of the Spokane Falls and Northern Railway, Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway and the Red Mountain Railway are included.  £6.95

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Drushka, Ken  Tie Hackers to Timber Harvesters: The History of Logging in British Columbia's Interior, Harbour Publishing, 1998, pp240 with more than 200 illustrations.  Large Format Hb.  VG+ in a VG dust wrapper.  A comprehensive history of logging in British Columbia from the 1850s until the 1990s.  £16.50

GO System Timetable, 7 January 1995, pp20. Pb.  VG.  A 1995 timetable of Toronto suburban services in Canada - GO stands for Government of Ontario.  £0.95

Greenlaw, Christopher C N  VIA Rail, Voyageur Press, 2007, pp160.  Brief inscription.  Large Format.  Glazed boards with dw.  Fine in a VG+ dust wrapper.  An illustrated history of nationalised railway services in Canada.  £12.50

Hope, Jim  Those Beautiful 'C' Liners: A Photo Album of 'C' Liners in British Columbia, LPD Publishing, 1986, pp44.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  Very Good.  Photographs of the Fairbanks-Morse Consolidation Line locomotives known as 'C' liners over a period of twenty years from 1953 to 1973.  £4.95

Hope, Jim  Canadian Pacific in the Okanagan and Kootenay Valleys of British Columbia (The Last Days of Steam), British Railway Modellers of North America, 1989, pp26.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  VG.  Portrays steam operations in the area from 1941 to 1956.  £6.95

Hope, Jim  Canadian Pacific in the Okanagan and Kootenay Valleys of British Columbia (The Early Days of Diesels), British Railway Modellers of North America, 1992, pp26.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  VG.  A pictorial record of early diesel operations in British Columbia.  £6.95

Hope, Jim and Bain, Donald  Memories of Canadian Pacific Steam Power in British Columbia [Vol.1], British Railway Modellers of North America, 1996, pp30.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  Very Good.  Jim Hope's photographs with extended captions.  £4.95

Hope, Jim and Bain, Donald  Memories of Canadian Pacific Steam Power in British Columbia Vol.2, British Railway Modellers of North America, 2001, pp26.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  Very Good.  A further selection of Jim Hope's photographs, mainly taken in the 1940s, with extended captions.  £5.95

Kelly, Brian and Francis, Daniel  Transit in British Columbia: The First Hundred Years, Harbour Publishing, 1990, pp150.  Large Format.  Hard Cover.  VG- in a Fair+ dust wrapper.  Remains of an old bar code on the spine. Although completely hidden by the dust wrapper, there is a significant - if superficial - score mark down the front cover.  The dust wrapper itself has been internally repaired down the spine and at the top of the rear dust wrapper fold.  An illustrated history covering "Street Railways," "Interurbans," Buses and "Trolleys."  £7.50

Kennedy W G  Canadian Pacific in Southern British Columbia: The Boundary Subdivision, British Railway Modellers of North America, 1986, pp30.  Official Photocopy Reprint.  Large landscape format. Stapled paper covers.  Near VG.  Slight wear to the covers.  Pictorial with extended captions.  The Boundary Division stretches 126.6 miles from Nelson to Midway.  £3.95

McDonald, Donna  Lord Strathcona: A Biography of Donald Alexander Smith, Dundurn Press, 2002, pp600.  Pb. VG.  Donald Smith was a central figure in the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway.  This recent biography is based on extensive new research into source materials in both North America and Britain.  £6.95

McDonnell, Greg  Passing Trains: The Changing Face of Canadian Railroading, Boston Mills, 2003, pp240.  First published in 1996.  Large landscape format.  Hard Cover.  Very Good in a Very Good dust wrapper.  There is a tiny nick at the bottom of the rear dust wrapper fold.  A largely pictorial journey across Canada on the Canadian National.  £7.50

McKillop, Norman  Western Rail Trail, Nelson, 1962, pp190 plus pp32 of illustrations.  Inscription.  Hb. VG/VG-.  Dw internally repaired at the head & base of the spine. Top-link driver Norman McKillop writes about his rail travel in Canada as he journeys from Montreal in Quebec to the West Coast.  £5.95

McLoughlin, Brian F  Canadian Pacific from Calgary to Edmonton Vol.1, British Railway Modellers of North America, 1988, pp26.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  VG.  There is an old price sticker on the rear cover.  A pictorial record of the Canadian Pacific's operations in Alberta.  £5.95

Mills, John M  History of the Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto Railway, Upper Canada Railway Society and Ontario Electric Railway Historical Association, 1967, pp118.  The original hardback edition.  Large Format Hb.  No dw.  VG.  Slight wear to the corners of the covers and at the head & base of the spine.  A well-researched history of an "interurban electric railway" in Southern Ontario, Canada.  £16.50

Ottewell, Ernie  Canadian Pacific and Canadian National in the Interior of British Columbia, BRMNA (British Railway Modellers of North America), 1996, pp26. Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  Very Good.  Pictorial with extended captions.  £5.95

Parker, Douglas V  Streetcars in the Kootenays: Nelson's Electric Tramways 1899 to 1992, Havelock House, 1992, pp196.  Large Format.  Card Covers.  Very Good.  A comprehensive illustrated history of the small "street railway" (tram) system which operated in Nelson, British Columbia.  £8.50

Pole, Graeme  The Spiral Tunnels and the Big Hill: A Canadian Railway Adventure, Altitude Publishing Canada, 1995, pp80.  Card Covers.  VG.  An illustrated booklet describing the construction and operation of the world-famous Canadian Pacific Railway through the treacherous Kicking Horse Pass in the Canadian Rockies.  £2.95

Riegger, Hal  The Kettle Valley and Its Railways: A Pictorial History of Rail Development in Southern British Columbia and the Building of the Kettle Valley Railway, Pacific Fast Mail, pp289.  Large Format Hb.  VG in a Poor dust wrapper.  Although the dust wrapper is complete apart from very minor losses, it has been substantially repaired internally.  A substantial, largely-pictorial history of the Canadian Pacific's famous secondary main line through southern British Columbia.  £16.50

Sanford, Barrie  The Pictorial History of Railroading in British Columbia, Whitecap, 1981, pp144.  Large landscape format Hb. VG+/VG with two small internally repaired tears to the dw edges.  An illustrated history of railways in the most western state of Canada, with far more text than the title might suggest.  £9.50

Sanford, Barrie  McCulloch's Wonder: The Story of the Kettle Valley Railway, Whitecap Books, Canada, 2001, pp260 plus pp40 of illustrations.  First published in 1978.  Pb.  Very Good.  The story of the Canadian Pacific's famous secondary route through southern British Columbia.  £5.95

Smuin, Joe  Canadian Pacific's Kettle Valley Railway, British Railway Modellers of North America, 1997, pp34.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  Very Good.  Pictorial with extended captions.  £6.95

Smuin, Joe  Kettle Valley Railway Mileboards: A Historical Field Guide to the KVR, North Kildonan Publications, 2003, pp210 (approx).  Large Format.  Card Covers with ring binding.  Very Good.  A detailed illustrated gazetteer of the Canadian Pacific's famous Kettle Valley line in southern British Columbia.  £16.50

Stuckey, Lawrence A and Bain, Donald M  The Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railways in Canada Vol.1, British Railway Modellers of North America, 1996, pp38.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  VG.  A pictorial record of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railways incursions into Canada.  £6.95

Turner, Robert D  West of the Great Divide: An Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia 1880-1986, Sono Nis Press, 1987, pp336 with 400 black & white and colour illustrations.  Signed by the author.  "Collection of Gary R. Lipton" stamped on the title page and on the top and bottom page edges.  Large Format.  Hard Cover.  Very Good in a Fair dust wrapper.  Wear to the edges of the dust wrapper, slight loss at the base of the spine.  A comprehensive study of the Canadian Pacific's first century in British Columbia.  £16.50

Turner, Robert D  Steam on the Kettle Valley: A Railway Heritage Remembered, Sono Nis Press, 1995, pp120.  Landscape Format Pb.  VG.  An illustrated history of the Canadian Pacific’s secondary route through southern British Columbia.  £6.95

Webber, Bernard  The Romance of Canadian Silk Trains or "The Silks", Word Works Publications, 1993. Card Covers. VG pp125. For the first 40 years of the 20th century, trains raced across North America from Vancouver, Seattle, and San Francisco carrying bales of raw silk to the silk mils of New York and New Jersey. This book tells the story of the Canadian silk trains.  £8.50

Wilson, Dale and Jomini, Gordon D  Tracks of the Black Bear in Colour, Sudbury, Fredericton, 1990, pp64.  Nickel Belt Rails No.5.  Large Format Pb.  VG. An illustrated history of the Algoma Central Railway.  £8.50

Wilson, Dale  From Abbey to Zorra via Bagdad: Canadian Pacific Railway Passenger Services in the 1950s, Nickel Belt Rails, 1995, pp144.  Nickel Belt Rails No.2.  This is an "authorized photocopy edition" of a book first published in 1978.  Large Format.  Card Covers with plastic ring. VG.  A detailed study of Canadian Pacific passenger operations in 1955, including a reprint of the entire 1955 timetable, and with many illustrations of the locomotives and coaches used.  £8.50

Wilson, Ian  To Stratford under Steam: A CNR Division Point and Motive Power Shop in the 1950s, Canadian Branchline Miniatures, 2000, pp192 with 265 illustrations.  Large Format Hb.  Fine/Fine.  An evocative description of steam operations in the Stratford, Ontario division of the Canadian National Railway.  £32.50

Canadian Railway Scenes

Wolf, Adolf Hungry  Canadian Railway Scenes No.1, Good Medicine Books, 1983, pp64.  Landscape format Pb.  VG.  Pictorial with sections on Newfoundland Narrow Gauge, Mixed Trains in the 1980s, Dieselisation of the Kettle Valley, Crowsnest & Kettle Valley in Steam, Montreal Vignette, Vintage Electrics in Modern Montreal, Winnipeg Manitoba, Surviving Steam in Canada.  £5.95

Wolf, Adolf Hungry  Canadian Railway Scenes No.2: CPR Centennial Issue: Montreal to Vancouver, Good Medicine Books, 1986, pp112.  Landscape format Pb.  VG.  Some 200 illustrations from the Canadian Pacific's transcontinental line.  £5.95

Wolf, Adolf Hungry and Wolf, Okan Hungry  Canadian Railway Scenes No.3, Good Medicine Books, 1986, pp50.  Landscape format Pb.  VG.  Pictorial with sections on Steam Expo, CPR Last Spike Centennial, Trans Canada Ltd to Expo '86 Aboard a Restored Luxury Train, and Vintage CP & CN Scenes.  £5.95

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Wolf, Adolf Hungry  Rails in the Canadian Rockies, Canadian Caboose Press, 1993, pp176 including pp16 of colour.  Revised pictorial edition.  Large Format.  Card Covers.  VG.  A largely pictorial tribute to the Canadian Pacific lines through the Rockies.  £9.50

Yaremko, Richard  Canadian Rail Car Pictorial Vol.2: 40 ft Canadian National Boxcars [Part 1], Prairie Rail Publishing, 1998, pp40.  Large landscape format.  Card Covers.  VG.  Colour illustrations of Canadian National Railway boxcars, with extended captions.  £8.50

Yeats, Floyd  Canadian Pacific's Big Hill: A Hundred Years of Operation, Calgary Group of the British Railway Modellers of North America, 1995, pp50.  First published in 1985.  Large landscape format Pb.  VG.  A pictorial tribute to the Canadian Pacific's main line from Lake Louise to Field through the Rocky mountains via the Kicking Horse Pass and the famous twin spiral tunnels.  £5.95

Yeats, Bill  Men of Steam (The Early Careers of Floyd and Bill Yeats with the Canadian Pacific Railway), British Railway Modellers of North America, 2001, pp49.  Large landscape format Pb.  VG. Bill Yeats joined the Canadian pacific in 1942, serving for 42 years until his retirement in 1984. This book brings together a collection of illustrated stories from his early years on the Canadian Pacific.  £6.95

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