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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.