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Canadian Railroads > On this day -- 40 years agoDate: 05/27/17 12:58 On this day -- 40 years ago Author: WP17 (with apologies to Hoggerdoug)
Quite a few TO members have been posting photos to celebrate the 50th anniversary this week of GO Transit. I decided to dig through my slides from a visit back to Toronto in 1977 but apparently I did not shoot any GO action. (bummer) However I did find this neat set of slides that I did shoot on May 27, 1977. The first three are scenes from the CN's Spadina shops. #1: The CN Turbo train conveniently posed with the CN Tower in the background. I had posted a comment earlier this week that today there is nothing to tie the CN tower to the railroad. However back in the old days there was, and this photo does a great job of linking the tower and the railroad. #2: The Canadian departing Union Station with a short consist -- note there is no Park car on the Toronto section. #3: One of many CN/VIA Budd car trains that fanned out to southern Ontario Those were certainly the golden days in downtown Toronto WP17 Date: 05/27/17 13:02 Re: On this day -- 40 years ago Author: WP17 And I had to go to the top of the CN tower; after all it had been open for less than a year. So here are two views: on of a modest downtown Toronto and another showing the extent of the railway yards west of the station.
Date: 05/27/17 14:54 Re: On this day -- 40 years ago Author: MrGrumpy Love picture #5. Amazing how much this place has changed over the years. It's still a great train watching location, I can only imagine what it was like 40 years ago.
Dwayne Date: 05/27/17 14:55 Re: On this day -- 40 years ago Author: DrawingroomA WP17 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > ... > #2: The Canadian departing Union Station with a > short consist -- note there is no Park car on the > Toronto section. ... > > WP17 I believe it was after the summer season of 1972 that the CPR eliminated the Park car on the Toronto section in the off-peak season. Peak season was mid-June to mid-September and for a week and a half or so in the Christmas/New Year season. I see in the photo that the train had one more coach and sleeper than the minimum off-peak consist. In the mid-1970s both The Canadian and Super Continental often had only a single sleeper in the Toronto section in the winter season. I was surprised that the government didn't force a reduction in service to tri-weekly. I had a few winter trips on The Canadian in the pre-VIA years when there were just four to six passengers in the Toronto sleeper. |