Articulating Railway History / The Shaping Of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History. Volume 3: Transcontinental America 1850-1915. By D. W. Meinig. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. 480 p. ISBN 0-300-07592-8. US$55. hb; ISBN 0-300-08290-8. US$25. pb.) / The Philosophy of Railways: The Transcontinental Idea in British North America. By A. A. den Otter. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. 300 p. ISBN 0-8020-4161-2. $34.95) / Gentlemen Engineers: The Working Lives of Frank and Walter Shanly. By Richard White. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. 280 p. ISBN 0-8020-0887-9. $50.) / The Bridge at Québec. By W. D. Middleton. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. 216 p. ISBN 0-253-33761-5. $39.95) / Au rythme du train, 1859-1970. By Alexander Reford. (Sainte-Foy: Publications du Québec, 2002. 214 p. ISBN 2-551-19561-6. $29.95) - Leonard, Franck (Scientia Canadensis)