When former Port Hope resident John Cowan decided to archive the photos he’d taken during a 35-year railroad career, he had no idea where the project would eventually take him.
So he did.
Cowan has created a coffee table format book titled ‘Canadian Pacific Trackside 1977-2012’, a pictorial memoir of his time as a CPR conductor.
Cowan says while working on the railroad, he never tired of seeing wildlife.
Part of the wonder of train travel says Cowan, is seeing things that aren’t visible from the road.
Cowan’s love for everything train related, started during his youth in what is now Northumberland County.
He says in his boyhood you could usually him find at the local train station.
A passion that would propel Cowan, by rail, from Quebec to Vancouver Island, on a more than three decades long voyage which he chronicled through the lense of a camera.
‘Canadian Pacific Trackside 1977-2012’ will be released in April.
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