Tag Archives: GO transit
20191006. A GO train heading to Union Station emerges from the Strachan Ave below-grade rail corridor just after sunset.
20190731. Putting the size of a GO Train in perspective over the rooftops of Queen Street East.
20190716. Herding the humans through the construction at Union Station.
20190709. Ascending from the pedestrian tunnels of Scarborough GO station.
20190707. The damp pedestrian tunnels of Scarborough GO station.
20190705. Bridges, trains and automobiles.
20190604. The tunnel below the tracks at Pickering GO station.
20181126. The new Union Food Court on the lower retail level of Union Station’s GO Transit terminal.
20180830. Speedy GO Train.
20180729. Crossing the Humber River on GO Transit’s Lakeshore West line.
20171223. A wide angle view across the Union Station train shed.
20171027. Descending into the pedestrian tunnel at Scarborough GO Station II.
20171023. Descending into the pedestrian tunnel at the 50-year-old Scarborough GO Station.
The blur of people passing under the Rouge River Bridge at Illuminations by Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, soon to be replaced by a bigger bridge that can accomodate additional trackways.
A GO Train zooms over a lit Rouge River bridge at night.
20170703. Shadows of trench-spanning struts at the Strachan Avenue railway underpass.
20170319. Approaching Union Station from the west, all 12 platforms of the train shed are visible.
20170227. Several new GO Transit coach and cab cars await rush hour in a full North Bathurst Yard.
20170113. A profile view of a 61,000 kg GO Transit bi-level coach and cab car sitting in the Union Station trainshed.
20170110. A GO Train prepares for imminent departure from Union Station.
20161228. Five GO Trains depart Union station heading westbound during rush hour.
20161213. Like Snowpiercer, the Union Pearson Express flies through snow on the tracks (GO Weston Subdivision) to Union Station during Toronto’s first accumulated snowfall.
20161117. Leaving Union Station heading westbound.
20160622. An aerial view of Toronto Union Station’s historic exposed train shed steel structure.
Progress on the train shed has stalled as the future electrification of Go Transit trains will require either modifying the overhead wiring system to fit under the shed, lowering the floor or raising the roof with the latter being the worst case scenario as it involves considerable cost and harming the historic steel structure.