Canadian Railroads > Happy 50th to GO Transit - GO 512

Here is a favorite GO Transit photo to help honor GO on its 50th birthday.
GO 512 near and GO 503 behind it are seen in Toronto, Ontario on August 8, 1988.
Bob

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refarkas Wrote:
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> Here is a favorite GO Transit photo to help honor
> GO on its 50th birthday.
> GO 512 near and GO 503 behind it are seen in
> Toronto, Ontario on August 8, 1988.
> Bob

Awesome shot! Where in Toronto is this exactly?

Michael

All I know is that this is two or three miles west of Toronto Union Station.
Bob

The area has changed a lot in almost 30 years, but my guess would be Exhibition GO Station.

Here's a more recent photo (although still almost 15 years old now) from the platform, that is one of my favourites. And yes, I was shooting Fuji film. :-)

GTD



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/23/17 16:23 by cn6218.

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Thanks for the later image. It certainly has changed.
Bob

cn6218 Wrote:
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> The area has changed a lot in almost 30 years, but
> my guess would be Exhibition GO Station.
> ...

> GTD

Yes, it is the CNE station. The first photo shows the overpass that passengers had to use to get to and from the north platform to the south platform where the exhibition grounds are. It was several years before that was replaced with an underpass that, fortunately, had a lot fewer steps and also elevators. Work started a few years ago on a fifth track - a siding which will share the platform with track 1. This requires an extension of the tunnel and another elevator. Even if this track and access were to be completed in the near future, it will have taken longer to construct this than it took the UK and France to build the channel tunnel.