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(TRAINSPOTTING)
Album containing more than 270 captioned
photographs of locomotives throughout the
Canadian Pacific Railway Engines and Cars
System.The prints span a 30-year period and
were shot by various photographers, among
them L.A.Whyte, of Ottawa; Cecil A. Barrett;
Harry Schimm; Dave Conway; Gerry
Burridge; and others. The images depict
close-ups of trains, some spewing smoke;
many of the photographs are from the 1930s,
with a few from the 1940s, and other prints
from the 1950s-60, and 9 photomechanical
color postcards. Silver prints, various sizes,
most are 2
1
/
2
x4
1
/
4
inches (5.7x10.8 cm.),
many with the Canadian Railroad
Photographs hand stamp on verso, with
additional notations in pencil or in ink;
generally mounted 4 per page; one page
detached. Oblong large 4to, gilt-lettered
leatherette. 1930s-60
[2,000/3,000]
A massive compendium depicting cars, depots,
engineers, tenders being filled, cabooses, junctions,
switchers, ballast regulator cars, round houses, CPR steam shovels, CPR crane and more, painstakingly compiled
by a master trainspotter.With 250 different engines, including experimental engines that were scrapped (CPR
8000-20-10-4-1940).The captions appearing below the photographs are typewritten and often indicate the
CPR number, train number, location, date, and name of photographer.