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Angus Shops has been self-published by Michael Leduc and tells the story of Cana- dian Pacific’s locomotive and car shops which were located in Montreal Nord between 1904 and 1992. The book begins with a discussion of the Hochelaga and New Shops and covers the initial planning and construction of the Angus shops and their adaptation to chang- ing technology over the 90 years they were devoted to railway use. CPR-built locomo- tives discussed and pictured include power built at New Shops in the late 19th century. Angus products include its first locomotive, 0-6-0 No. 2045; a handsome D11 Camelback 4-6-0; 4-8-4 No. 3101; and a P1 Mikado. Also shown is an unusual 0-6-6-0 whose engines faced each other, and there’s a photo of the Decapod it was rebuilt into a few years later. Others include lanky H1 4-8-2 No. 2900 and experimental high-pressure 2-10-4 No. 8000. The effects of dieselization are described as the steam erecting shop was adapted to over- hauling diesels. Coverage of the passenger and freight car shops includes a home-built steam motor car and wooden Rocky Moun- tain observation cars, along with a narrow gauge Lake Louise tram car and some of the hundreds of Valentine tanks CPR built dur- ing World War II. The book includes photos of buildings, aerial views, and diagrams; two appendices summarize the locomotives built at New Shops and Angus. Any serious fan of CPR history and motive power will enjoy this 72-page softcover, which measures 5¹/₂″×8¹/₂″ and contains more than 55 b&w photos and illustrations. It sells for $20.00 postpaid (no cash) from Michael Leduc, 57 Roosevelt Dr., Dollard des Ormeaus, QC H9G 1J1. Opening the Rail Gateway to the West by
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William H. McKenzie has been reprinted by the St. Louis Chapter NRHS. First print- ed in 2001, the book starts with the ground- breaking on July 4, 1851, in St. Louis of the Pacific Railroad of Missouri, the first rail- road west of the Mississippi, later to become the Missouri Pacific and finally part of the Union Pacific. The first leg of construction was a 5′-6″ gauge line through Kirkwood, in- cluding the difficult boring of the Barrett’s two tunnels. Disease, labor unrest, and eventually the Civil War conspired against the railroad and its Southern Branch. Shod- dy workmanship and bad weather combined in the Gasconade Bridge disaster, where the locomotive and seven coaches loaded with dignitaries on the inaugural train to Jeffer- son City plunged through a new Howe truss during a thunderstorm. With Missouri’s di- vided loyalties in the Civil War, the Pacific Railroad was raided and destroyed more than once. After the war it was standard gauged and the Southern Division became the St. Louis-San Francisco. After going bankrupt in 1872 and being reorganized as the Missouri Pacific, George Gould added it to his portfolio and directed its ambitions to- ward the Southwest. This 5¹/₂″×8¹/₂″, 64- page softcover has color covers, eight b&w photos, a station list, and a vintage map. It’s available for $12.00 in paper form from
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BOOK REVIEWS Canadian Pacific’s
Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway: The CP Steam Years, 1905-1949 By Robert D. Turner and Donald F. Mac- Lachlan. Published by Sono Nis Press, P.O. Box
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160, Winlaw, BC V0G 2J0 Canada; 1-800/370-5228.
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11″×9″ pages, $49.95 hardcover, $39.95 soft- cover, postpaid in North America.
Written by Robert D. Turn- er and based on preliminary re- search and a draft text com- posed by Donald F. MacLachlan, this book is the follow-up edi-
tion to MacLachlan’s The Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway, the Dunsmuir Years: 1884-1905, published by the B.C. Railway Historical Society in 1986 and reprinted in 2012. MacLachlan passed away in 2011 and was a life-long E&N employee who retired in 1983 as the line’s senior engineer and started work on this book in his retirement. Due to his declining health, it remained incomplete until Turner and the Canadian Railway His- torical Society revived the project in 2007. Later this year a third volume, The Es- quimalt & Nanaimo Railway, The Diesel and Dayliner Years: 1949-2013 will bring the Van- couver Island railway’s history up to date. This book picks up where MacLachlan’s first volume ended, when Canadian Pacific acquired the E&N in 1905. One of CPR’s first priorities was to upgrade the line to handle the burgeoning lumber traffic from the island’s dense forests, and the replace- ment of several large timber trestles was part of this effort. Many were replaced by fills and masonry culverts, but the tall, curved trestle across Niagara Canyon was bypassed in 1911 with a steel cantilever span that was relocated from the CPR main line at Cisco, British Columbia, after that structure was replaced with a higher-capac- ity truss bridge. Several other bridges were replaced in a similar manner, including the Cowichan River bridge, which was replaced with a cast-iron Phoenixville truss that was relocated from Québec. A fine selection of photos shows these bridges and others be- fore, during, and after their replacement. In addition to the bridges, CPR improved other parts of the property, including expanding the yard and facilities in Victoria and replac- ing the Victoria drawbridge with the John- son Street dual bascule span that accommo- dated a planked-over single track on one bridge and a two-lane road on the other. The book discusses and pictures the
road’s locomotives as E&N’s early motive power was assimilated into the CPR roster and supplanted with larger power which in- cluded L- and M-class Consolidations and several classes of 4-6-0s, most notably D4g’s. In the late 1940s, about 17 larger and more powerful D10s took over from their smaller cousins until the diesels arrived. (Today one of these, No. 926, is preserved in the Locomo-
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