Lone Red Cap
![Black and white archival photograph of a man in railway uniform pulling an empty baggage cart in front of Toronto’s Union Station. He is walking away from the camera.](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/experiences-railway-workers-toronto_personnel-ferroviaire/wp-content/uploads/sites/162/2022/10/106561.jpg)
Source: Toronto Star Archives, TSPA_0015967F
Date: August 1966
On August 26, 1966, a national rail strike shut down train services across the country. Red caps at Union Station had little work to do without any passenger trains coming into the station.