On the Rails: The Experiences of Toronto’s Railway Workers On the Rails: The Experiences of Toronto’s Railway Workers Toronto Railway Museum
This is the third of Toronto’s Union Stations. It was opened in 1927 to replace an early station built in 1873.
On May 21, 1971, for the first time in eleven years, a Canadian Pacific steam locomotive was fired up at the John Street Roundhouse. Privately-owned CP No. 1057, […]
In 1930, the John Street Roundhouse operated with 28 stalls. Four more stalls were added in 1931, bringing the total to 32 stalls. This image also shows the […]
The John Street Roundhouse was part of an extensive complex of over forty buildings devoted to railway maintenance. The Roundhouse and the machine shop, visible just to the […]
“RESTORED BY J.CLARK LOCO. FOREMAN TORONTO 1971” is stamped on the bottom of the photograph. John Clarke on the pilot of No. 1057 at stall 19 of the […]
With the popularity of cars in the 1950s and 1960s, the prominence of railways declined. This photograph shows how Toronto’s landscape changed with the railways and later, the […]
The railways brought industry to Toronto. While this meant jobs for railway workers, it also meant smoke from the trains’ coal-powered engines in their locomotives.
On the right side of this image, you can see Toronto’s second Union Station. Today, Union Station is the largest railway station in Canada and occupies the entire […]
