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In Search of the Grand Trunk: Ghost Rail Lines in Ontario.


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Lakeshore East Planned Expansion. Rails to the Atlantic leads the reader and traveller to the often forgotten railway heritage of Quebec and the Atlantic provinces.

The reader will visit the many historic stations, ride scenic trains and explore some of Canada's finest railway museums. Ontario was once criss-crossed with a spiders' web of rail lines. Most are now gone, but their legacy lingers in the old railway stations, bridges and lesser known features like murals water towers, roundhouses, and coal docks.

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In Search of the Grand Trunk: Ghost Rail Lines in Ontario

Down village streets, in city lanes, and along quiet country roads lie its most unusual sights, houses that seem to float, a river that disappears, log cabins in the centre of a major city. All await the curious explorer.

Monuments to murders, massacres and mysterious spy camps bring to life the lesser-known aspects of Ontario's hidden heritage. In Search of the Grand Trunk looks at the many abandoned rail lines across Ontario and shows hikers, cyclists and recreational drivers the many heritage features along them which recall the once heady days of rail. From Queenston to Kingston: