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KEEP 'EM ROLLING: THE STORY OF TORONTO'S SPADINA ROUNDHOUSE.

Watson, Ron.

Erin (0m.), Boston Mills Press, c1984. 140pp, doth, $24.95, ISBN 0-919822-63-0. CIP

Grades 6 and up
Reviewed by Hugh A. Cook

Volume 13 Number 1
1985 January


This is a book for the railroad buff. Almost every page has one black-and-white photograph of the Spadina Roundhouse area and many of the pages have two or three. The illustrations date from approximately 1860 to 1966. A great variety of locomotives and other railway items are shown. Scattered throughout the book are maps and descriptions of various areas of the yard, such as the coaling and sanding plant, the cinder handling plant or the turntable. Harry Watson, the author's father, apparently kept his camera handy and photographed many of the events and trains in the yard in his forty-three years as an employee of the CNR. The written passages tend to describe the accompanying photographs. There is no real story line presented, except for the passage of time. This book would not likely be of great interest to those not already enthralled by trains.


Hugh A. Cook, Calico P.S., North York, Ont.
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