Upper Canada Railway Society
INCORPORATED 1952 NUMBER 478 AUGUST 1989 TT\ Cr^uvjit : t ^ i>T. • \ ' , • ^ yd ;'.:-t-;"^ ' ( UPPER CANADA RAILWAY SOCIETY BOX 122 STATION "A" TORONTO, ONTARIO Former CPR business car 2, still in its original maroon paint and gold lettering, is pictured near the site of Leaside Station, Toronto, on July 15, 1989. It rests on a section of new track, slightly over two car lengths long, laid beside the main line but not connected. The car will be available for rent for meetings and other gatherings. It will be repainted in its CPR colours. Thompson The first TTC PCC, .A-1 class 4000, is loaded aboard a truck at Hillcrest Yard on June 21, 1989, for its return to the Rockwood streetcar museum. The car was in the Harvey Shop after being-displayed at the 1988 CNE for the 50th anniversary of PCCs in Toronto. p Thomp.son On July 31, 1989, TTC track crews were busy laying track on Spadina Ave. north from Lakeshore Rd., leading up to the new bridge over the railway tracks. The tracks will be in a raised concrete reservation, similar to the one on Oueens Quay. This view looks northwest from the abandoned CNR High Line embankment . , , „ „, --John D. Thompson , August 1989 UGRS Newsletter 3 Observations from a former Montreal commuter By Bob Sandusky . Vacationing near Dorion, Quebec for a few days in July cartwheel past my eyes. A teen-aged commuter had disembarked provided an opportunity to revisit a few haunts from my CP before his time, with spectacular results but no injury except to ', Lakeshore commuting days of 1965 to 1973.
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