Books

Here we will provide references to books on Narrow Gauge railways in Ontario and also across Canada.

  • “The Portage Railway” ,by Jeff Young and Peter Foley (2018) – 204 Pages, more than 300 photos, a most comprehensive history and description of the Huntsville and Lake of Bays Railway.
  • “The Newfoundland Railway, 1898–1969, A History” by Les Harding (2008)
  • “Narrow Gauge through the Bush” by Rod Clarke (2007)

This book is now out of print but available for sale at the Toronto Railway Museum’s store in downtown Toronto.  It is a definitive history of the pioneering Toronto, Grey and Bruce and the Toronto and Nipissing narrow gauge railways which were the first narrow gaueg passenger hauling commercial railways in North America. For more information about the book, click here.

  • “Narrow Gauge Railways of Canada” by Omer Lavallee, expanded and revised by Ronald S Ritchie (2005)
  • “The Skyline Limited: The Kaslo and Slocan Railway” by Robert Turner and David Wilkie (1994)
  • “By Steamboat & Steam Train: The Story of the Huntsville and Lake of Bays Railway and Navigation Companies” by Niall MacKay (1994)
  • “The Narrow Gauge For Us – The Story of the Toronto and Nipissing Railway” by Charles Cooper (1982)
  • “Running Late on the Bruce” by Ralph Beaumont & James Filby (1980)
  • “Steam Trains to the Bruce” Ralph Beaumont (1977)
  • “The Toronto Grey and Bruce Railway 1863-1884” by Thomas F McIlwraith (1963)
  • “The Iron Horse comes to the Klondike: narrow gauge railways serving coal mines on Cliff Creek and Coal Creek, and a placer gold operation on Bear Creek, Yukon Territory, 1899 to 1918” by Eric L Johnson and Lorne H Nicklason (2012)