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20171023. Descending into the pedestrian tunnel at the 50-year-old Scarborough GO Station.
The 73,000 kg 35-tonne 12 m tall overhead crane supports construction at the Eglinton Crosstown’s Oakwood 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.
20170905. Etobicoke Creek Station on the Mississauga Transitway at night.
20170703. Shadows of trench-spanning struts at the Strachan Avenue railway underpass.
20170607. The striking west pavilion exterior at TTC’s new Downsview Park station.
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.
20170223. The billboard towers of the Ordnance Triangle apex mark the tip of the future Garrison Point development.
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.
20161007. Sneaking a peek at the UP Express train through the concrete that supports its elevated track.
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.
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.
