The McWetlog

It didn’t operate for long (1896-1900), but the Brighton Electric Railway is hands down the weirdest interurban railway that ever existed: the tracks — two of them, 36½-inch gauge — were designed to be under water — 15 feet of it! — at high tide, and the trains ran on 23-foot-high stilts. Via Jerry Kindall.

Along the Line: Photographs of the PEI Railway. An online exhibit with not nearly enough information for a rail nut. Begun as narrow gauge but rebuilt to standard gauge somewhere in the mid-1920s or so. Via Plep.

Steam Locomotives of the CPR is a little incomplete and has a few niggling errors here and there that I can spot, but it’s an impressive, ambitious work in progress, with lots of detailed information and photos of preserved (if decrepit) locomotives.

Lists of surviving steam locomotives — whether operational, on static display or in the process of restoration. A whole whack of them are at the Canadian Railway Museum in Delson, Quebec (just outside Montreal), though I won’t be able to visit until they reopen in June.