RAILWAY BOOKS WITH INFORMATION ABOUT TORONTO
Compiled by Derek Boles, TRHA Historian
Below you will find a list of books that have been published about railways in the Toronto and surrounding southern Ontario area. Many of these books are out of print but are available at the Toronto Public Library (http://www.tpl.toronto.on.ca/).
Canadian National Steam in Color
Vol. 1: Ontario & East
by Kevin J. Holland
Morning Sun Books, 2005
ISBN 1-58248-153-9
Canadian National Steam in Color
Vol. 2: Ontario & West
by Kevin J. Holland
Morning Sun Books, 2005
ISBN 1-58248-163-6
Canadian Pacific Facilities In Color
Volume 1 by Kevin J. Holland
Morning Sun Books, 2006
ISBN 1-58248-188-1
Canadian Pacific in Southern Ontario
Vol. 1 by W.H.N. Rossiter
British Railway Modelers of North America,
ISBN 0-919487-01-7
Canadian Pacific in Southern Ontario
Vol. 2 by W.H.N. Rossiter
British Railway Modelers of North America
ISBN 0-919487-07-6
Canadian Pacific in Southern Ontario
Vol. 3 by W.H.N. Rossiter
British Railway Modelers of North America
ISBN 0-919487-16-5
A Century of Travel on the Ontario Northland Railway
by Douglas N. W. Smith
Trackside Canada, 2004
ISBN 0-9730521-1-2
Credit Valley Railway
by James Filby
Boston Mills Press, 1974
Engine Houses & Turntables of Canadian Railways: 1850-1950
by Edward Forbes Bush
Boston Mills Press, 1990
ISBN 1-55046-002-1
Four Whistles to Woodup: Stories of the Northern Railway of Canada
by Frank N. Walker
Upper Canada Railway Society Bulletin No. 37, 1953
Ghost Railways of Ontario
by Ron Brown
Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ontario, 1994
ISBN 1-55111-054-7
Ghost Railways of Ontario Vol II
by Ron Brown
Polar Bear Press, Toronto, Ontario, 2000
ISBN 1-896757-14-6
Keep 'Em Rolling, the Story of Toronto's Spadina Roundhouse
by Ron Watson
Boston Mills Press, 1984
ISBN 0-919822-63-0
Iron & Steam - A History of the Locomotive and Railway Car Builders
of Toronto
by Dana William Ashdown
Robin Brass Studio, Toronto, Ontario, 1999
ISBN 1-896941-12-5
The Last Stop: Ontario's Heritage Railway Stations
by Ron Brown
Polar Bear Press, Toronto, Ontario, 2002
ISBN 1-896757-19-7
Lines of Country: An Atlas of Railway and Waterway History in Canada
by Christopher Andreae
Boston Mills Press
ISBN 1-55046-133-8
Narrow Gauge for Us, The Story of the Toronto and Nipissing Railway
by Charles Cooper
Boston Mills Press
No publication date; no ISBN
Narrow Gauge Railways of Canada
by Omer Lavallee & Ronald S. Ritchie
Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2005
ISBN 1-55041-830-0
The Ontario and Quebec Railway
by Donald M. Wilson
Mika Publishing Company, 1984
ISBN 0-919303-82-X
The Open Gate, Toronto Union Station
edited by Richard Bebout
ISBN 0-88778-072-5
Railway Heritage Study in Toronto
by Christopher Andreae
Historica Research Ltd., 1983
The Railways of Toronto, Volume 1
by John Riddell
British Railway Modelers of North America
ISBN 0-919487-38-6
The Railways of Toronto, Volume 2
by John Riddell
British Railway Modelers of North America
ISBN 0-919487-47-5
Running Late on the Bruce
by Ralph Beaumont and James Filby,
The Boston Mills Press, 1980
ISBN 0-919822-32-0
Steam at Allandale
The story of a CNR division point in the 1950s
by Ian Wilson Canadian
Branchline Miniatures, 1998
ISBN 0-9683815-0-2
Steam at Oakville: A Day on the Oakville Subdivision
by Allan Paterson & Dick George
Boston Mills Press
ISBN 0-919783-55-4
Steam in Northern Ontario
CNR operations from Toronto to Lake Superior in the 1950s
by Ian Wilson Canadian
Branchline Miniatures, 2006
ISBN 0-9683815-5-3
Steam Trains to the Bruce
by Ralph Beaumont
Boston Mills Press, Cheltenham Ontario, 1977
ISBN 0-919822-21-5
The Toronto, Grey & Bruce Railway: 1863-1884
by Thomas F. McIlwraith
Upper Canada Railway Society, 1963
Trackside around Ontario: 1955-1960
with Don McCartney by John Riddell
Morning Sun Books, 2003
ISBN 1-58248-114-8
Trackside around the Niagara Peninsula: 1953-1976
with Reg Button by Stephan M. Koenig
Morning Sun Books, 2004
ISBN 1-58248-126-1
Trainscape Volume One: Diesel-Electric Locomotives Into Toronto 1968-1979
by Juris V. Zidris
British Railway Modelers of North America
ISBN 0-919487-43-2
Trainscape Volume Two: Locomotives On CN Lines Into Toronto 1968-1979
by Juris V. Zidris
British Railway Modelers of North America
ISBN 0-919487-53-X
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