?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(TRAINSPOTTING) Album contianing more than 270 captioned photographs of locomotives throughout the Canadian Pacific Railway Engines and Cars System. The prints span a 30-year period and were shot by various photographers, among them L.A. Whyte, of Ottawa; Cecil A. Barrett; Harry Schimm; Dave Conway; Gerry Burridge; and others. The images depict close-ups of trains, some spewing smoke; many of the photographs are from the 1930s, with a few from the 1940s, and other prints from the 1950s-60, and 9 photomechanical color postcards. Silver prints, various sizes, most are 2 1/2x4 1/4 inches (5.7x10.8 cm.), many with the Canadian Railroad Photographs hand stamp on verso, with additional notations in pencil or in ink; generally mounted 4 per page; one page detached. Oblong large 4to, gilt-lettered leatherette. 1930s-60
A massive compendium depicting cars, depots, engineers, tenders being filled, cabooses, junctions, switchers, ballast regulator cars, round houses, CPR steam shovels, CPR crane and more, painstakingly compiled by a master trainspotter. With 250 different engines, including experimental engines that were scrapped (CPR 8000-20-10-4-1940). The captions appearing below the photographs are typwritten and often indicate the CPR number, train number, location, date, and name of photographer.
