In text and images railway researcher and writer Ted Rafuse chronicles one of early Canada's most significant personal and business success stories. Many of Canada's late nineteenth and early twentieth century railways ran Crossen Company wooden passenger and freight cars on their lines.

Wooden Cars on Steel Rails: A History of the Crossen Car Companies, Cobourg, Ontario, narrates the history of founder James Crossen and his son William Crossen who together created the country's largest independent manufacturer of wooden railway rolling stock. This volume narrates the history of the several companies that emerged from a small foundry providing agricultural implements to the local farming region into Canada's foremost manufacturer of wooden passenger and freight equipment.
The Company's growth paralleled Canada's era of railway expansion. Included within the book is a roster of Crossen built cars lavishly supplemented with dozens of photographs, numerous passenger car diagrams, interpretive captions and a complete bibliography of sources.

Wooden Cars on Steel Rails: A History of the Crossen Car Companies, Cobourg, Ontario.

Two colour cover, perfect bound, 176 82 by 11 inch pages, landscape format, 125 b&w captioned photos, 51 captioned equipment diagrams, passenger and freight car roster, full references and index.

ISBN 0-9685474-1-9