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1201 Goes to Angus - unpublished, June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Unpublished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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