Pembroke: One module at a time by René Gourley Planning the TOMA way avoids unpleasant surprises and organizes construction ... Readers of the Model Railroad Hobbyist forum are likely familiar with Pembroke (mrhmag.com/blog/2760), the slice of the Canada Atlantic Railway that I am modeling in Proto:87. What they may not know is that it has always been part of a larger building program, or that this is the second version. I’ve been interested in the Canada Atlantic Railway (CAR) since being inspired in high school by Niall MacKay’s book, Over the Hills to Georgian Bay. The railroad stretched over 400 miles from Parry Sound, Ontario to Swanton, Vermont, running near my boyhood home in Ottawa. It survived as a separate corpora- tion from 1882 until 1905, when it was absorbed into the Grand Trunk Railway. As a modeler, to me the CAR presents both challenges and opportunities. Operationally, the mainline was incredibly busy. Contemporary reports speak of trains every fifteen minutes. • INDEX • TABLE OF CONTENTS