Canadian Pacific Railway
Toronto Division Downtown Toronto R.L.Kennedy
Map 1945 entire TTR, CNR Spadina. CPR John Street etc.
Passenger trains arriving and leaving the Union Station. Most people think in terms of
one Union Station, the present one on Front Street West covering all
850 feet between York and Bay Streets. Actually, this is the third
Union Station, the second one having been located just to the west,
on Esplanade West between York and Simcoe Streets, and opened July
1,1873; it too was shared by the GTR and CPR as the result of an agreement
dated July 26, 1892. It was expanded in 1895, but increasing passenger
traffic out grew this elegant stone building and another station was
deemed necessary. The first Union Station of 1855 was shared by the
Great Western and Grand Trunk Railways and was before the CPR's time. CP Express building was built (opened January 1930) onto Union Station at its northeast end located between Bay and Yonge Streets. A three-storey office building had a street address of 141 Bay Street and included the CPR Purchasing Department. A large cavernous underground shed beneath the tracks with 18 truck dock doors served a track level area of 3 tracks holding about 6 cars each. There was an exterior shed dock extension as well. The building was sold to CP September 12, 1957. It was closed after CPX stopped using passenger trains. A public parking garage operated in the underground area until it was all demolished in 2001. It was redeveloped as an intermodal GO Bus terminal partially opening on Saturday August 31, 2002 and fully in April of 2003.
Aerial view John Street
and Union Station 1930's. Aerial view slightly
to right (west) of above view. NEW Aerial view John Street and Union Station 1953 Bill Thomson
John Street roundhouse
and Coach Yard, also Union Station. Aerial c. 1973 This view from the CN Tower looking west towards Bathurst Street bridge, former Cabin D area, with Parkdale IMS yard in the distance. Foreground shows construction underway on site of former CNR Spadina Coach Yard, Flyunder with train exiting, GO Bathurst North yard at right. May 1987 Eugene D. Burles 8921 running long hood forward on the Day Transfer eastbound at
Bathurst Street July 1970 Jim Parker Same location as above photo of 8921 looking the other way. At left is King Street Shed lead (Front Street West at far left). Spadina Avenue bridge in background. Near foreground of above photo west end of CNR Bathurst Street Yard from Front Street West just east of Bathurst Street. 7064 westbound to Parkdale Yard. Last of 55 (7010-7064) Alco S-2
75547 11/1947. Lots of track work visibile in these two scenes of two local jobs
making their way through the TTR at Bathurst Street. Very little local industry in the downtown area remained by this time, mostly in Ashbridges Bay and soon that too would all but disappear with the closing of Lever Brothers plant next to TTR Keating Yard and others including Redpath Sugar which was the last industry on a long lead beside Queens Quay choosing to go all truck in the face of growing distaste for industry being in the way of condo development. CN took over what little remained, their own having also declined drastically as industry got squeezed out. Private industrial sidings are a thing of the past with about 1-2% remaining compared to 30-40 years ago. 1243 (ex 8157 rebuilt Weston 10/1982) GMD A1903 8/1960 8152 with a pig transfer that is actually handling only containers
for the temporary Pier 35 terminal in Ashbridges Bay due to overflow
traffic. Eastbound approaching Bathurst Street. 7/30/1987 Robert
Farkas
This article includes extensive
photographs showing construction of the Map 1945 entire TTR, CNR Spadina. CPR John Street etc.
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