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• Title : Rites of Passage: A Canadian Railway Retrospective
• Author : Greg McDonnell
• Rating : 4.54 (692 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-7-4
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 120 Pages
• Asin : 1550463306
• Language : English

Each new book by Greg McDonnell is a major event in the large railfan community, and Boston Mills Press is proud to be his publisher. Greg is a featured columnist for Trains magazine. His acclaimed large-format pictorials include Signatures in Steel, Heartland, U-Boats: General Electric's Diesel Locomotives, Pas

Each new book by Greg McDonnell is a major event in the large railfan community, and Boston Mills Press is proud to be his publisher. Greg is a featured columnist for Trains magazine. His acclaimed large-format pictorials include Signatures in Steel, Heartland, U-Boats: General Electric's Diesel Locomotives, Passing Trains and Wheat Kings.

. He lives with his wife and three sons on the edge of a ravine overlooking the Canadian Pacific Railway's Orr's Lake Hill. He is currently at work on a new book and overseeing a Masters of Railway Photography book series for Boston Mills Press.

Greg McDonnell's writing and photography have been praised by rail enthusiasts across North America

Greg is a featured columnist for Trains magazine. He lives with his wife and three sons on the edge of a ravine overlooking the Canadian Pacific Railway's Orr's Lake Hill. Each new book by Greg McDonnell is a major event in the large railfan community, and Boston Mills Press is proud to be his publisher. About the AuthorGreg McDonnell's writing and photography have been praised by rail enthusiasts across North America. He is currently at work on a new book and overseeing a Masters of Railway Photography book series for Boston Mills Press. . His acclaimed large-format pictorials include Signatures in Steel, Heartland, U-Boats: General Electric's Diesel Locomotives, Passing Trains and Wheat Kings

Rites of Passage, a look at over three decades of transition and changes along Canada's rail lines, is his most personal book to date. "For what it's worth," McDonnell writes in his introductory essay, "what follows on these pages is personal, a collection of images and essays drawn from a 35-year effort to capture and chronicle the magic of Canadian railroading, an effort that began with a young boy pointing a borrowed Brownie at a pair of olive-green GMD1's looming out of the early morning fog in Kitchener and quickly grew to be a lifetime avocation, if not a vocation." Rites of Passage is vintage McDonnell, a sensual feast of boiler steam and diesel smoke, high iron and midnight runs across the prairies, wistful memories and critical analysis.. Each new railway book by writ

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