Links to Interesting Sites

I have found the following web sites to be particularly interesting and useful:

RAILWAYS IN OTTAWA AND EASTERN ONTARIO

The Bytown Railway Society - Ottawa
The Canada Atlantic Railway Research Site by Rene Gourley
Railways of Eastern Ontario  - this contains accounts, in particular, of the Brockville, Westport and Sault Ste. Marie, the Bytown and Prescott and Brockville and Ottawa Railways.
The Cornwall Street Railway Light & Power Co.
Ontario Railway History Page
Rail & Trains in Ottawa
Ottawa Valley Associated Railroaders
Ottawa Valley HO Trak
Ottawa Valley Garden Railway Society
New York Central's Ottawa Division

Southern Ontario Railway Map Project
Outaouis Railway Heritage Association

RAILWAYS IN CANADA

The C. Robert Craig Memorial Library  located in Ottawa, contains a great deal of information relating to Canadian Railways.
The Carillon & Grenville Railway Canada’s Last Broad Gauge by Jim Sandilands
Railway Association of Canada
Algoma Eastern Railway
Old Time Trains – an excellent resource with lots of information on Canadian Railway History.
Trackside Canada
CNR Ontario Research  a good source for information on CN railway stations in Ontario
Passenger Train Travels of Peter Dawes.

Charles Cooper's Railway Pages

GENERAL RAILWAY

David Hills fascinating description about Sulzer locomotives in Bolivia
Climax Locomotives
Shay Locomotives
Geared Steam Locomotive Works
Dave's Electric Railroads  - an excellent collection of electric and street railway pictures.
Railroads of Central America - Jan Pesula's interesting pages on railways in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

GENERAL INTEREST AND TRAVEL

Thomas Shakespear's Diary; in Search of a British Railwayman in Rancagua, Chile.  This is an interesting account of life as a railway maintenance foreman in Chile at the turn of the last century.
Mis Poemas de Bernadette Larrea de Guerra, Chimborazo, Ecuador
ByWard Market - Ottawa
Orpington Photo Archive An incredible collection of images of my home town, Orpington, Kent, England.

Updated August 2009
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