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20150601. This must be the safest place in town.
20150529. A siren stands sentinal over hoods near the Pickering Nulear Generating Station.
20150522. Doors Open on meters, pipes and levers at the Portlands Energy Centre.
20150518. Gawk at the 1909 steam engine that once powered the High Level Pumping Station at Doors Open Toronto.
20150505. Find beauty in pipes, conduits and valves during Doors Open at Toronto’s Portlands Energy Centre.
To find out more, visit http://goo.gl/O6dG6L.
20150502. When on foot which Gardiner Expressway exit do you take?
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.
20150421. A southbound night view of the Eglinton West subway station. Toronto.
20150420. Toronto’s very modern Eglinton West subway station really shines at night.
20150419. Above a dark TTC Eglinton West station flanked on both sides by an empty Allen Rd in Toronto.
20150418. 208 wheels move the boring machine digging Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown LRT tunnel.
20150417. The massive 2.4 Gigawatt NY State Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant (1961).
20150401. The stylish Bayview Westbound stop on VIVA’s Highway 7 East Rapidway.
20150326. Impressive train shed metalwork revealed by revitilization at Toronto’s Union Station.
20150308. The unique 1971 modernist Building T pumping station in Toronto’s Pump House Park.
The attributes that make this building unique include the circular plan, the engaged inverted engaged catenary arches on the lower wall and the taller engaged catenary arches on the upper wall with fins that extend beyond the original roofline. Unfortunately, the recently added metal penthouse (or cap on top) obscures these fins from view and diminishes the brilliant original design that you can see at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pumping_station_in_Ashbridges_Bay_Toronto.jpg. This pumping station is officially known as the Mid-Toronto Interceptor Pumping Station but being a part of the Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant, it goes by the name Building T.
20150305. “The next station is Yorkdale, Yorkdale Station.” Toronto’s TTC Line 1 runs north up the Allen Expy.
20150302. Toronto’s modern, functional, handsome yet understated St. George TTC Subway transformer station (1963).
20150301. The Brutalistic pre-cast concrete lines of Toronto’s TTC Kipling Station electrical substation.
20150213. Pipes and handrails follow stairwell contours in Toronto’s TTC Pape Subway station.
20150202. The curved concrete modernism of Toronto’s TTC Wilson Station waiting area and wind barriers
20150126. Toronto’s John Street Roundhouse (c.1929) is home to Toronto Railway Museum, SteamWhistle Brewing and Leons Furniture.
To learn more about the history of the John Street Roundhouse, come to a talk this Saturday: http://ow.ly/HZuho