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20160422. Toronto’s Union Pearson Express, busier and cheaper than ever, is ready to take off from downtown.
20160421. The spectacular skylight and ceiling of the remarkable rotunda at Pittsburgh Union Station, now the Pennsylvanian residences.
20160413. A bird’s eye view of a smokestack perch at TTC’s Davisville Yard.
20160412. Under Pittsburgh’s Interstate 579, a younger and cleaner elevated expressway than Toronto’s Gardiner.
20160411. A man puts a highway overpass into scale (showing just how much space fast moving vehicles need).
20160407. A platform with a view.
20160313. A discounted UP Express train races below Toronto’s Bathurst Street bridge.
20160310. The cavernous Leslie station on the underused Sheppard Line.
20160302. Toronto’s modern classical 1953 decommissioned Commissioners St Incinerator building.
An excellent example of Modern Classical design with stone detailing and varied fenestration, the incinerator opened in 1955 with the capacity to burn 900 Imperial tons per day. It was closed in 1988 after a Department of Public Health reported that it generated dioxin and other carcinogenic chemicals. It now functions as a waste transfer station.
20160226. A reflection of two generations of power plants in Toronto’s Port Lands.
On the left is the Portland Energy Centr, a natural gas powered power plant that opened in 2008 and on the right is the Hearn Generating Station, a decommissioned coal-fired plant that opened in 1951 and closed in 1983.
20160223. A transmission tower that changes the direction of power.
20160127. 20 refueled GO trains get ready to go!
20160111. A matrix of scaffolding floats above the stairs in Toronto’s Union Station Great Hall.
20160109. Approaching the bright Dufferin Street underpass at night.
20160106. An east-facing GO train races westbound on the Lakeshore corridor.
20160103. Peering through steel bridge piers across the West Don River.
20151208. Up on the catwalk II.
20151206. An “under deck polygonal warren through truss with alternating verticals” bridge has complex joints.
20151205. Gauging the thickness of the steel under one of Toronto’s most massive bridges.
20151202. Under an under deck truss bridge.
20151129. Up on the catwalk.
20151128. A Green GO Bus pulls into Oshawa’s grey concrete bus terminal.
20151116. Contrary to the sign, Lower Bay Station has been closed 49 years.
20151115. Lower Bay station. Open 6 months, closed 49 years.
