ROBINSON, DEAN — Railway Stratford [Ontario]

Erin, Ontario: The Boston Mills Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1550460226. "Stratford, Ontario was a divisional headquarters and home to a giant motive power repair facility for the better part of a century. Its sons followed their fathers and often their grandfathers into the motive power repair shops, or the roundhouse, or the running trades, or any of the many divisional departments. In the days when steam propelled the nation's trains, the payrolls of the GTR and the CNR pumped up the Stratford economy. This all ended in 1964. This book is about some of those days." - dust jacket. Fabulous photo-illustrated endpapers show a couple of dozen men of the GTR shops at the turn of the century in work attire. 176 glossy pages. Index. List of sources. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of marvelous archival photos. Prior owner's colour rail postcards affixed to verso of front free endpaper and half-title. Gift greetings and small address label upon front free endpaper, otherwise tight and unmarked with moderate wear. Dust jacket now in glossy new archival protection. A sound example of this wonderful, and perhaps surprising, look back upon this town which is now so well-known for its Shakespeare Festival. ; 8vo. Good in Good dust jacket .