Publications by Tom W Parkin Tom W Parkin

  • Branchline | July 2024

    Black Track

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  • Ffestingiog | July 2024

    Ghosts on the Grade

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  • Canadian Rail | May 2024

    Is It Art if There’s No Train?

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    Branchline | March 2024

    CPR’s Branchline Below Water

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  • Mountain Vision | January 2024

    The Spiral Tunnels and the Big Hill

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  • November 2023

    So You Always Wanted to Know About Railway Stonemasonry

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    Branchline | November 2023

    Climate, Change, and Melting Ice

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  • Branchline | July 2023

    Ghosts of the Grade

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  • The Sandhouse | May 2023

    Walking BC’s Dying Railway

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  • CP Tracks | March 2023

    Sleuthing on the Trail of Stone, Part 3 of 3

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    Branchline | March 2023

    Safety First and Other Stories

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  • The Sandhouse | February 2023

    Assignment: Dead Men

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  • Mountain Vision | December 2022

    Gravity, Steam and Steel

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  • The Sandhouse | November 2022

    Insulbrick

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  • BC Magazine | September 2022

    Peeping Tom

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  • Branchline | September 2022

    I Love the Smell of Fuel Oil in the Morning

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  • The Sandhouse | August 2022

    My Two Worst Days with the CPR

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  • Branchline | May 2022

    How the CPR Saved My Family

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  • The Sandhouse | May 2022

    Revelstoke Station Memories Live On

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  • CP Tracks | March 2022

    Sleuthing on the Trail of Stone, Part 2 of 3

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  • The Sandhouse | February 2022

    CPR’s Glacier Fanhouse

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    Branchline | January 2022

    Building a Barrel Culvert

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  • CP Tracks | September 2021

    Sleuthing on the Trail of Stone, Part 1 of 3

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  • Canadian Rail | May 2021

    One More River to Cross

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  • Branchline | November 2020

    Tales Told by Old Rails

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  • Northword | April 2019

    Three Men in a Boat

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  • April 2018

    Sons of the CPR

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  • Archivos | April 2018

    Fifty Switzerlands in One

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  • Archivos | April 2016

    The Ghost Town of Donald, BC

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  • Self-Published | January 2011

    Land of Our Own

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  • Heritage House | May 2000

    Haida Gwaii: The Queen Charlotte Islands

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  • BC Historical News | September 1995

    James H Parkin: Portable Sawmill Pioneer

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  • BC Historical News | December 1994

    Road to the Pacific Rim

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  • D&M | January 1992

    Green Giants

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  • Orca | August 1989

    WetCoast Words

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