Experiences of a
Temporary Fireman  -  The Railway Magazine, December 1961.
         The L.T. & S. 2-6-4 tanks  - Railway
World, May 1962.
         The
Train Brain Drain by Alan Road - The
Guardian, 6 July 1968.
         You Didn't See a Thing Did You  - Branchline,
January 1971.
         How Tom Price met his match  - Branchline,
January 1972.
         Preparing a meal railroad style  - Branchline,
April 1972.
         Do it Yourself Bus Service  - Transport
Canada, December 1972.
         Comments on the
operation of 1057  - Branchline, September 1973.
         1057 and all that  - Branchline,
October 1973.
         The Next Train on Platform Four may
Blow Up  - Branchline,
January 1974. 
         Put Her Back on the Way She Came Off  -
      Branchline, March 1974.
         Six Railwaymen in Search of the Russian
Winter  - Transport Canada,
March-April 1974.
    Russian Railways Studied by Carol Goar - Ottawa Citizen, May 1974
         Shovel on a Little More Coal - Canadian
Rail, June 1974.
         All in a Night's Work  - Branchline,
December 1974.
         1057 on the Mile Hill  - Branchline, April 1975. 
         Signalbox Trainee - Branchline, September 1975. 
         How to Bend the Rules  - Branchline,
December 1975.
         Notes from Northern Ontario  - Branchline, April 1977. 
         One Trip with 1201  - Branchline, May 1977. 
         British Steam Notes  - Branchline, September 1977. 
         Extract from Crew Supervisor's Report
 - Branchline,
June 1978. 
         BRS Invades the Chateau Montebello  - Branchline, June 1979. 
         The Ballad of Wristpin Bill  - Branchline,
December 1979.
         There Must be a Better Way  - Branchline,
May 1980.
         From the Pit  - Branchline, August 1980. 
         The Paper War  - Branchline, August
1980.
         You Can't Do This on a Diesel
 - Branchline, April, 1981.
         A Ride on the LRC  - Branchline,
May 1981.
         Railway Wars - Part I, The Whistle War
 -  Branchline, June/July 1981.
         Railway Wars - Part II, The
Great Chrysanthemum Crisis  - Branchline, September 1981.
         1201 Goes to Angus - unpublished, June
1981.
         The Great Canadian Railway Trek  - Part 1
 - Branchline, October
1981. 
        
      Ab Sabourin's Last Trip  - Branchline,
November 1981.   
         The Great Canadian Railway Trek  -
Part 2  - Branchline, December 1981.
        
      Clun Castle on the 1615 Paddington -
      Unpublished
         So
we called it "Churchill" instead. (St. Kitts Railway)  - Branchline,
January 1982.
         The Great Canadian Railway Trek  -
Part 3  - Branchline,
February, 1982. 
         The Great Canadian Railway Trek  -
Part 4  - Branchline, April 1982.
         The Manual Block
System (MBS) - Branchline, April 1982.
         Railway Wars - III.  The
Wantage Tramway  - Branchline, June/July 1982.
         Thurso Doings - Branchline, December 1982.
         Railway Wars - IV.  The Kettle Caper
and the Newspaper War.
         The Evening Rush at Toronto  - Branchline,
June 1983.
         Update on the St. Kitts Railway
 - Branchline, July/August 1983.
        
      Railfan Attacks Duck - Branchline, November 1983.
          Branchline Abandonments - Branchline, April 1984. 
         16,000 tons on the Mountain Subdivision
 - Branchline, July-August 1984.
         The Home Computer and the Railfan  -
Branchline, October 1984
         God's Wonderful 3461  - Branchline, March 1985. 
         Cleaning GWR Locomotives  - Branchline, July/August 1985. 
         More Great Westernry  - Branchline,
July/August 1985.
         Sapucay  -  Branchline,
September 1985.
        
      Other Related Duties - Branchline October 1985.
         Ab. Sabourin's Last Trip  -  Trains,
November 1985.
         Snowplow Extra - Thurso Style  - Branchline,
April 1986.
         1000th GM Unit to CP Rail  -  Branchline, July/August 1986. 
         A Week on British Railways  - Branchline, November 1986. 
         Don't Pet
the Rattlesnakes  - Branchline, January 1987.
         Time for a Railway History Data Base  -
      March 1987.
        
      Computer
Aided MBS - Branchline, March 1987.
         CP Rail Abandons Rogers Pass Tunnel Project
 - Branchline, April 1987. 
         That's Nice. Choo. Choo!  -
Branchline, May 1987.
         The Arnprior Dinkey  -  Branchline,
June 1987.
        
      VIA's
Money Back Guarantee - Branchline,
July/August 1987.
        
      Hudson
Bay Trials - Branchline, January
1988.
         The Salmon River & Northern Railway
 -  Branchline, May 1988.
         "Click!"  - Branchline, September
1988.
         In Search of Hydro Locomotives  -
Branchline, September 1988.
        
      Welsh
Quarry Locomotives - Branchline, May
1988.
         On the Runners  - Branchline, November 1988. 
         The
Disappearing Bridge - Branchline,
January 1989.
         On the Stoppers  - Branchline, May
1989.
         Brave Act - Full Career  - Transport
Canada, July - August 1990.
         Boarding and Leaving the Train  - Branchline,
November 1990.
         Barnhard Log Loaders  -  Branchline,
December 1990.
        
      Great
Northern, Great Eastern, Great Scott! - Branchline, December 1990
        
      Behind the Listings - The Plymouth
Cordage
Compressed Air Locomotive (with Brian Westhouse) - Branchline February 1991.
         The Thurso and Nation Valley Railway - A
Requiem - Branchline, June 1991.
         Locomotive Fireman - Shoeburyness - Steam Days, June 1992. 
         Clandestine Journey  - Steam Days,
August 1992.
         Reading Fireman  - Steam Days, September 1992. 
         Thurso Railway Remains - Branchline, September 1992.
         A Castle on the Worcester Road  - Steam
Days, May 1993.
         Greater Winnipeg Water District Railway - An
Addendum - Branchline, October 1993.
         Clun Castle - Branchline, October 1994.
         Comments on the use of Thurso and Nation
Valley Railway Car 27.  - Branchline, February, 1995.
         Diesel Dawn - A
Personal Experience of the Transition from Steam to Diesel  - British
Railways Illustrated, April 1995.
        
      A Ride to Toronto - Branchline, November 1995.
        
      The
Pacific Starlight Dinner Train - Branchline,
July-August, 1997.
         Toronto to Ottawa in the Ice Storm  - Branchline,
February 1998.
         Rehabilitation of the Panama Railroad  - Branchline,
December 1999.
         The Alfred Peat Bog Railway  - Branchline,
May 2000.
         Standoff at Hurdman
 - Branchline, July-August 2000.
         The Centenary of the Interprovincial Bridge
 - Branchline, February 2001. 
         The
Russell Shale Brick Railway  - Branchline, June 2001.
         Sir John A. MacDonald's Funeral Train
 - Branchline, November 2001.
         Wanderings of a Railfan Aviator  - Branchline, March 2002. 
         Head on at Deschenes
 - Branchline, April 2002.
         First Class on the Locomotive  - May
2003.
         Break of Gauge at Prescott Junction  - Branchline, June 2003.  
        
      The
New York Central in the Ottawa Valley - the Ottawa and New York Railway
- paper for the NMRA Maple Leaf 2003
Convention, July 13-20, 2003.
         Travels in Bolivia
 - The Interchange, Summer 2003.
         McLachlin's Dinkey at
Arnprior  - Branchline, October 2003.
         The Canada Atlantic Railway Elgin Street
(Ottawa) Station (with David Jeanes)  - Branchline, February
2004.
         Stone Haul on the Ottawa and Prescott
 - Branchline, February 2004.
         The Mattingly Collection in the Canada
Science and Technology Museum (with Bob Moore)  - Branchline,
April 2004.
         The Canada Atlantic
Railway Elgin Street (Ottawa) Station - A Postscript (with David
Jeanes)  - Branchline May 2004.
         The First Railway to Aylmer  - Branchline, September 2004. 
         The Rideau Canal Accident  - Branchline, November 2004. 
         The Sussex Street Station, Ottawa  - Branchline,
December 2004.
         The First Railway in Ottawa  - Branchline,
February 2005.
         The Change of Gauge on the Canada Central
Railway  - Branchline, April 2005.
        
      Locomotive
Engineer William McFall - A True Hero  - Branchline, May 2005.
         Blocking a Crossing  - The
Interchange, May 2005.
         Turn that Locomotive - The Interchange,
June 2005. 
         The
Demise of the VIA FPA-4s. - Branchline,
October 2005. 
         Blocking Trains - The Interchange, December 2005. 
         125th
Anniversary of the Prince of Wales Bridge - Branchline,
January 2006. 
         Ottawa
Valley Mail Crane Problems - Branchine,
January 2006.
        
      Russell's
Railroad - Branchline,
January 2006.
          Rebuilding
of the Prince of Wales Bridge in 1926-27 - Branchline, February 2006
         Close
Encounter with a King - Branchline, March 2006.
        
      Shantymen
Snipets - Branchline, April 2006.
        
      Slow
Train - Branchline,
May
2006. 
         Benched
Steam Locomotives - Branchline,
June 2006. 
        
      CPR
train No.532.  Ottawa to Maniwaki Division. - Branchline, June 2006
          Eulogy
for Ken Healy - Interchange,
September 2006
        The
Union Forwarding Company
Railway - The First Railway in the Ottawa
Valley.  The Horse Railway that ran a Royal Train. - Branchline,
July-August 2006. 
        Ab Sabourin's Last Run - Branchline
November 2006 (reprinted from November 1981 Branchline) 
        The
Interlocking at Bedell - Branchline,
January 2007.
        Another
Local Hero (Merland J. Bennett) - Branchline,
February 2007. 
        The Sample Car - The Interchange, April 2007.
        Fuelled
by Wood - Branchline, May 2007.
        Station
Gardens - Branchline, May 2007.
        The
Ultimate in Grafitti - The
Interchange, May 2007.
        Rideau
Junction - Branchline,
September 2007. 
        Three Bridges: Moveable, Immovable and
Removable! - The Interchange,
September 2007.
        How did locomotive crews cope in the Severn
Tunnel? - Steam World, September
2007.
        Oh! Mr. Wheel Tapper - The Interchange, November 2007.
        The
Pontiac and Renfrew Railway - the Railway to the Bristol Mines - Branchline,
December 2007. 
        All
Change at Prescott Junction - Ottawa
Central Railway, Spareboard, December 2007.
         A
Grand Trunk Artifact Found in Ottawa (with the Ottawa Railway History
Circle) -  Branchline, January
2008. 
        An Update on the St.
Kitts Railway - Branchline,
February 2008. 
        The Bridge over the South Nation River at
Casselman - Ottawa Central Railway,
Spareboard, January 2008.
        Local
Hero - Alfred Parkes - Branchline,
February 2008. 
        The
Rear-End Collision on the Bridge at Casselman - Ottawa Central Railway, Spareboard,
February 2008.
        The Bridge over the Ottawa River at Fitzroy
- Ottawa Central Railway,
Spareboard, March 2008.
        To Err is Human - Cornfield Meet at
Woodlawn - Ottawa Central Railway,
Spareboard, April 2008.
        The
Three Rs - Part One - Ottawa Central
Railway, Spareboard, May 2008.
        The
Three Rs - Part Two - Ottawa Central
Railway, Spareboard, June 2008.
        
      It's
later than You Think.  How do you preserve your collection
for posterity? - Branchline, June
2008.
        The
Canadian Northern Railway Rideau River bridge, Ottawa - Branchline, July-August 2008. 
        The Nepean Junction Mystery - Ottawa Central Railway, Spareboard, July
2008.
        Out
of Gas - Ottawa
Central Railway, Spareboard, August 2008. 
        Ottawa
West - Ottawa Central Railway, Spareboard,
September 2008. 
        The
Canadian  Northern Railway Bridge over the South Nation River, or
How Not to Build a Bridge - Branchline,
December 2008. 
        Peat Bog Locomotives - Branchline, December 2008.
        Trials
and Tribulation of  Railway Inspections - The Interchange, December 2008.
        Harry
McLean's Dominion Construction and Grenville Crushed Rock
Operations at Deeks -  Branchline,
January 2009. 
       The
Strangest Train Order - The
Interchange, February 2009.
        Butting
Out - The
Interchange, March 2009. 
        Bridge
over Green's Creek - Branchline,
March 2009. 
        Local
Hero - Arthur Guertin - Branchline, March 2009. 
        Ottawa
Valley HOTRAK - Interchange, April,
2009.
        Take
a Broom to Work - Interchange, May
2009.
        Railroaders
- Interchange, June 2009.
        Signalbox
and Interlocking Etiquette - Interchange,
October 2009. 
        Sussex
Street Station, Ottawa - A
Follow Up. - Branchline, November
2009. 
        Gauge
Problems - Interchange, November
2009.
        High
Speed Trains in England - Interchange,
December 2009
        Locomotives
named "Ottawa" - Branchline, March
2010.
        Vegetation
Comes to the Fern Valley Railway - Interchange,
March 2010
       
Broad
Gauge Relics in the Azores - Branchline,
May 2010 
        A Boy's Experience on the Old
Bytown and Prescott in the 1860s - Branchline,
May 2010 
        Go
Ahead and Back Up - Interchange, May
2010.  Railway Stories from the Ottawa Citizen - Branchline, June 2010
        Railway
Tea Tales - Cold Tea: The Strike - The Interchange June 2010  Fake Figure and Red Paint Gave Watchman a Bad Scare - Branchline, July - August, 2010  The Engineer Also Acted as Fireman - Branchline, September 2010  The Bear Said "Ba-Ba" Yet Phil Roy Ran - Branchline, October 2010  How to combat Trespassers - The Interchange, November 2010  Close Call on the Hull Electric - Branchline, November 2010
        The Very First Railway in Ottawa - Branchline, November 2010
   Railway Tea Tales - Taking Tea in Argentina - The Interchange, January 2011  First Train over the Bonnechere Bridge at Renfrew - Branchline, January 2011  The Nosbonsing and Nipissing Railway - Branchline, May 2014
   Bell Locomotives in Canada - Branchline, June 2014
   Mclaurin's Mill, Templeton, QC - Branchline, July-August 2014.  Exploding Whistles - Interchange September 2014  The Statfold Barn Railway - Branchline December 2014
   Dirty Tricks - Interchange March 2015  The Sons of Martha Cairns - the Tenth Cairn - Branchline also Interchange April 2015  Now it Can be Revealed - 1057 derailed at Bells Junction - Branchline June 2015  Now It Can Be Revealed - 1057 Runs Over a Derail at Wakefield - Branchline July/August 2015  What's in a Name?  Northern Alberta Railways GMD-1s. - OVAR The Interchange June 2015  Assistant Station Manager - Reading - Unpublished  Pigeon Traffic - Interchange September 2015
   How I Became Hooked - Interchange December 2015  The Cental Railway of Canada - Branchline November/December 2015  My Very Own Train - Branchline November/December 2015   The Price of a Ride- Interchange, May 2016  The Winnipegosis Mixed - Branchline March/April 2016   Taking Down a Layout - Interchange June 2016  Playing Both Ends Against the Middle - Interchange May 2017  Steam Locomotive Fire Cleaning - OVAR Interchange March 2019  Tales in OVAR's Back Yard - The First Derailment on the Parry Sound Railway - OVAR Interchange, May 2019  The Coal Trestle - OVAR Interchange September 2019  Potentially Serious Accident on the Hull Electric Railway In Ottawa - OVAR Interchange March 2020  Restoration of the White River Module - OVAR Interchange March 2022
        Locomotive Repair Report - OVAR Interchange September 2022
        Brains Blown Out - OVAR Interchange May 2024
 
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