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ShonTron
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Yeah, there was a proper fully mixed train – The Little Bear – but it was changed so that PBX ran year round. PBX has express freight and has dedicated flat cars for personal vehicles and equipment, but yeah, there’s a dedicated freight train these days.
KevinT
Active Member
Meanwhile, CN has unnecessarily hobbled VIA saying that it only has the public's best interests at heart...
www.tomshardware.com
Security vulnerability on U.S. trains that let anyone activate the brakes on the rear car, was known for 13 years — operators refused to fix the issue until now
Wireless hardware to seriously disrupt rail transport costs less than $500.
just east of the creek
Senior Member
Staying in North Vancouver, the Shipyards Area, for a few days and kept hearing train noises at odd times. So when I had a break I went walking and then consulted the CN atlas after barely seeing cargo moving through the area. The line originates in Prince George and swings through West Van, then North Van on its way to crossing the inner harbour closer to Burnaby. I am sure this has a name and someone will educate me.
What I found interesting is that the line proceeds through a tunnel of buildings etc as it closes the ‘Shipyards’ and reappears somewhere. Urban railroading. So I took a couple of photos from Chesterfield Place.
The balance of the tunnel apparently dates to the 1920’s / 1930’s and these sections are a little more recent.
There appear to be three tracks, used with consistency I would say, that feed into a single track through the tunnel, and then immediately into a yard to the east.
And above - condos, restaurants, hotels.
What I found interesting is that the line proceeds through a tunnel of buildings etc as it closes the ‘Shipyards’ and reappears somewhere. Urban railroading. So I took a couple of photos from Chesterfield Place.
The balance of the tunnel apparently dates to the 1920’s / 1930’s and these sections are a little more recent.
There appear to be three tracks, used with consistency I would say, that feed into a single track through the tunnel, and then immediately into a yard to the east.
And above - condos, restaurants, hotels.
micheal_can
Senior Member
Northern Light
Superstar
Not exactly railways, see as there is no track here anymore, but for lack of a better thread, Orillia out today announcing they have reacquired their old train station:
www.orillia.ca
From the above:
Accompanying photo:
City reacquires 150 Front Street South, Orillia
www.orillia.ca
From the above:
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Towered
Superstar
Handsome station - is it downtown?
Northern Light
Superstar
Close'ish.
Parking/big boxes right there, but a ~400m walk to the old shopping district.
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ShonTron
Moderator
Ontario Northland continued to use it as a bus terminal until the mid 2010s. It later moved to a motel near Highway 12, but now, it stops downtown at the local transit transfer point. It wasn't a pleasant walk downtown from the CN station; the nearby warehouses and big box stores were built on the old rail lands and associated industries that congregated around it.
The old CP station, which is downtown, is heavily modified but still recognizable; it is now part of a legion hall.
lenaitch
Senior Member
Very 'ish'. The only large retail in the area is a Home Hardware building centre a Ford dealership and a Giant Tiger. Anything really 'big box' is across the other side of Hwy 11.
I guess the private purchaser who bought it from the City in the first place fell through. Nobody was even quite sure what they were going to do with it.
Cue the calls to have rail re-laid to Orillia!
crs1026
Superstar
That is, of course, the old British Columbia Railway, previously Pacific Great Eastern. Home for many years of the 2860 steam excursions. As North/West Van have urbanized, the tracks have been built over. Very valuable real estate. Not much to do but coexist with the railway.
Back circa 1999, it was also very active as a movie lot. There is life after Line 2, after all.
- Paul
Northern Light
Superstar
Let me show the audience what wisdom you're sharing:
That poor building, so disrespectfully molested.
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I never thought of CP in Orillia, this caused me to consult a brilliant resource from someone you know well: (Thank you, by the way)
ArcGIS Web Application
walkitect.maps.arcgis.com
When I consult this resource, it shows all the abandoned trackage as being CN. (blue)
Just thought I'd let you unconfuse me. LOL
ShonTron
Moderator
Let me show the audience what wisdom you're sharing:
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That poor building, so disrespectfully molested.
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I never thought of CP in Orillia, this caused me to consult a brilliant resource from someone you know well: (Thank you, by the way)
ArcGIS Web Application
When I consult this resource, it shows all the abandoned trackage as being CN. (blue)
Just thought I'd let you unconfuse me. LOL
I mapped passenger services only. CP never really had much passenger service on its line that connected Port McNicoll, Orillia, Lindsay, and Draneol, with the exception of seasonal excursion trains to Lake Huron steamers. The section between Orillia and Lindsay was gone by the late 1930s.
lenaitch
Senior Member
That is a very good Legion. I suspect that if it wasn't for them the building would have be razed.
Originally built as the Georgian Bay and Seaboard.
Northern Light
Superstar
I don't doubt you.
Look at the picture though, it might as well have been. It looks terrible.
What's the point of 'saving' it like that?