Publications by Tom W Parkin
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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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Full Publication Available
Branchline | March 2024
CPR’s Branchline Below Water
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Full Publication Available
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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Full Publication Available
Branchline | March 2023
Safety First and Other Stories
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The Sandhouse | February 2023
Assignment: Dead Men
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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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The Sandhouse | May 2022
Revelstoke Station Memories Live On
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Full Publication Available
Branchline | May 2022
How the CPR Saved My Family
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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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Full Publication Available
Branchline | January 2022
Building a Barrel Culvert
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Full Publication Available
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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Archivos | April 2018
Fifty Switzerlands in One
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Archivos | April 2016
The Ghost Town of Donald, BC
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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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