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.
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20160510. An aerial view of TTC’s original Eglinton Station bus terminal – soon to be a memory.
This is where the tunnel boring machines that have completed tunneling the western leg of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT will be extracted.
20160422. Toronto’s Union Pearson Express, busier and cheaper than ever, is ready to take off from downtown.
20160127. 20 refueled GO trains get ready to go!
20160106. An east-facing GO train races westbound on the Lakeshore corridor.
20150929. Metrolinx has expropriated this old Oshawa Knob Hill Farms for a future GO station.
20150812. A conduit for commuters and an empty gangway of lights at Toronto’s closing GO Transit Bay Concourse.
20150811. The fancy drop ceilings and old school way-finding signage are history at Toronto’s Union Station GO Transit Bay Concourse.
20150810. Fluorescent lights span Toronto’s Union Station GO Transit Bay Concourse, closing for renovations after 37 years.
20150712. Pickering GO station’s new walkway snakes between a new parkade and the Hwy 401 pedestrian bridge.
20150427. Stripes of light greet pedestrians inside GO Transit’s new York East Teamway.
20150422. A full-length track-side shot of Toronto’s almost ready UP Express Union Station.
20150326. Impressive train shed metalwork revealed by revitilization at Toronto’s Union Station.
20141231. This grade-separated track replaces the railway junction after which Toronto’s Junction hood is named.
Now that trains no longer need to wait to cross the junction, GO Transit regional commuter trains as well as the soon to be implemented Union Station – Pearson International Airport Express train will run faster with more efficient scheduling.