Tracks Across the Landscape: The S&L Commemorative History

A. J. B. Johnston and Brian Campbell

THIS BOOK AVAILABLE ONLY FROM S&L RAILWAY MUSEUM, LOUISBOURG, NOVA SCOTIA

The development of the Sydney and Louisburg Railway, like the tracks it laid across the landscape, followed a winding course through Cape Breton’s history. For well over half a century, the S&L Railway played a pivotal and memorable role in the life and economy of the Island. It hauled coal from the pithead to ships, it carried people to company picnics and served the communication needs of eastern Cape Breton. The Sydney and Louisburg Railway Historical Society, was formed in 1970, by a group of retired S&L employees and interested people dedicated to the preservation of the only remaining S&L station, freight shed, rolling stock and thousands of artifacts related to the railway. In honour of the S&L’s one-hundredth anniversary, in 1995, the Historical Society commissioned this history of their railway, affectionately known as the “Slow and Lazy.”