tive Hall at the Canada Science & Technolo- gy Museum in Ottawa.) An appendix in- cludes a roster of steam locomotives which operated on the E&N between 1884 and 1949 and lists the builder, construction date, and disposition of each one. The railway’s lifeblood during this time


period was lumber and forest products, and a wonderful selection of photographs shows raw lumber and milled wood products being moved by rail. 120-foot long cedar and Dou- glas fir logs, spanning three flatcars, were moved to mills which turned them into spars and poles which were shipped to the main- land by rail and carfloat. Massive old- growth timber, in the form of 40-foot logs five to ten feet in diameter, was moved to sawmills in solid trains of skeleton flatcars. Slabwood, used for heating, some cut for the purpose and some being a byproduct of the mills, was shipped to Victoria in roofless box- cars, primitive bulkhead flats, and wood racks for local distribution by truck. The many photos of lumber trains and their loads will provide an education in the ship- ment of raw and finished lumber by rail. Turner also shows a fine assortment of lum- ber mills and their associated structures. Being located on an island too far from


the mainland to be reached by a bridge, the E&N relied on steamships and barges. Back in the days when Canadian Pacific “Spanned the World,” those vessels were CP owned and included handsome passenger carriers such as the Princesses Patricia and Mar- garet and humble workboats like the tugs Kyuquot and Qualicum and the barges they pulled, loaded with freight cars, between Vancouver and the Island slips at Lady- smith and Jayem. A plentiful variety of pho- tos shows these vessels and others, while di- agrams, photos, and maps depict the shoreside facilities associated with them. Appendix III contains tabular data on the E&N Railway’s City of Nanaimo and Joan, while a complete list of tugs, barges, ferries, and other vessels that carried railroad cars will be included in the upcoming The Diesel and Dayliner Years. The road’s passenger service is also well- documented in text and photos. The E&N used handsome, well-maintained, but anti- quated heavyweight wooden equipment right up through the end of steam and into the early ’50s when modern, air conditioned Budd Rail Diesel Cars (Dayliners, in CPR parlance) catapulted passengers into the 20th century almost overnight. So into the late ’40s, E&N passenger trains were visions from the past, from the spit-shined D10 on the point to the kerosene markers bringing up the rear. The consist usually included an express reefer, R.P.O., two baggage cars, and two coaches — all built of wood. A notewor- thy sidelight is a 1935 proposal to acquire an English-designed Sentinel steam-powered passenger car and trailer. Three diagrams of the car are included along with a discussion of the project, which was not carried through. Appendix II includes a roster of parlor, observation, and business cars along with several diagrams. You’ll find many photos of non-revenue


equipment at rest and in service, including steam cranes, a pile driver, an early Jordan spreader, and a steam shovel. It seems that nearly every station is shown, along with many views of the railroad’s surroundings. Especially interesting is a panorama-like view of the Victoria West enginehouse and


shop in 1913, actually made up of two images. This book is very well-researched and the material is logically presented in clean, well- executed page layouts with excellent photo reproduction. While most of the images are b&w, five fine color photos kick things off in the first 12 pages, and there’s also a color re- production of a Max Jacquiard painting. Worthy of special mention is the cover illus- tration, which has the quality of a fine water- color with its diffuse wreaths of steam and smoke and delicate palette, yet shows crisp detail on the locomotive. It takes a long, hard look to determine that it is, in fact, a photo- graph. Bravo! — WALT LANKENAU


Bangor and Aroostook Stations and Structures By George and Katherine Melvin. Published by Melvin Photos, 392 Sturtevant Hill Rd., Readfield, ME 04355; 207/685-3901; www. melvinphotos.com. Softcover; 144 11″×8¹/₂″ pages; 50 color, 334 b&w photos. $34.95 plus $4.00 shipping; ME residents add sales tax. This book is or- ganized by route into 16 chapters which cover all the BAR’s main and branch lines from Fort Kent through Oak- field, Northern


Maine Junction, and Searsport, and out west to Greenville and east to the Aroostook County branch line network. Long-gone Bangor Union Station and its trainshed, located on the Penobscot River waterfront and served by the “B&A” using Maine Central trackage rights from Northern Maine Junction, merits its own two-page chapter. Two system maps repro- duced from the Official Guide show the North- ern and Southern Divisions and make it easy to pick out the many locations shown in the book. The stations depicted range from the magnificent Bangor Union to the utilitarian but handsome frame structures at places like Searsport, Oakfield and Derby, to modest flagstops. The structures of the title include not only depots but also freight houses, round- houses, sand houses, water tanks, coal towers, bridges, trestles, overpasses, piers, railroad ho- tels, and section houses, in addition to the brick headquarters office building at Northern Maine Junction. A few potato houses, not owned by the railroad but an important part of the scene, can also be found in these pages. This is not just a collection of “roster


shots” of buildings; a fine set of photos shows break-bulk freight operations at Searsport, for example, with sacks of tapioca being un- loaded from a ship using rope slings and rolls of paper being transferred from boxcar to ship using the same method. You’ll also see sacks of potatoes moving from rail to ship with the aid of a conveyor and ramps, and the facilities used to transfer coal for the paper mills from ship to rail. Other notable subjects include a nice series of images showing the yard and structures at Greenville, where the B&A touched Moose- head Lake and had a second junction with Canadian Pacific’s International of Maine Division (the main interchange with CPR was at Brownville Junction). Three pages show Monson Junction, where the two-foot gauge met standard, and include two color photos made in 1939! There’s also very good documentation showing the changes made


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