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On track
On track

On track

Date9/4/1981
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Original Toronto Star caption: On track: That westbound VIA Rail passenger train is a bullet-nosed aggressive reminder of rail expansion in Metro. Close to 10;000 VIA passengers come and go to Union Station daily.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0012606F
Getting back on track. Firefighters clean up spilled diesel fuel yesterday after two train engines derailed shortly after noon when tracks gave way in(...)
Getting back on track. Firefighters clean up spilled diesel fuel yesterday after two train engines derailed shortly after noon when tracks gave way in(...)
5/19/1994
Pick-up sticks. Nine freight cars carrying lumber, auto parts and potatoes jumped the track under the Leaside bridge, tearing up 150 feet of track and(...)
Pick-up sticks. Nine freight cars carrying lumber, auto parts and potatoes jumped the track under the Leaside bridge, tearing up 150 feet of track and(...)
5/19/1980
CNR freight train carrying gravel went off the tracks just north of Highway 11 near Brandford during a heavy thunderstorm that lasted two hours last n(...)
CNR freight train carrying gravel went off the tracks just north of Highway 11 near Brandford during a heavy thunderstorm that lasted two hours last n(...)
5/22/1975
10 tons of beef spilled. Wreckage litters ravine after three flatcars carrying trucks loaded with beef jumped CN tracks just east of Don Valley Parkwa(...)
10 tons of beef spilled. Wreckage litters ravine after three flatcars carrying trucks loaded with beef jumped CN tracks just east of Don Valley Parkwa(...)
5/17/1976
Not on track
Not on track
5/2/1973
CNR freight train carrying gravel went off the tracks just north of Highway 11 near Bradford during a heavy thunderstorm that lasted two hours Wednesd(...)
CNR freight train carrying gravel went off the tracks just north of Highway 11 near Bradford during a heavy thunderstorm that lasted two hours Wednesd(...)
5/22/1975
Wreckage of TTC bus lies strewn along tracks after being hit by go train
Wreckage of TTC bus lies strewn along tracks after being hit by go train
12/2/1975
Derailed cars block tracks. A Canadian National freight train derailed at the Bayview extension just south of King St. yesterday afternoon. No one was(...)
Derailed cars block tracks. A Canadian National freight train derailed at the Bayview extension just south of King St. yesterday afternoon. No one was(...)
6/13/1991
Worried Mayor: Hazel McCallion, at the scene of the derailment last night, says the accident reinforces her conviction houses should not be so close to tracks
Worried Mayor: Hazel McCallion, at the scene of the derailment last night, says the accident reinforces her conviction houses should not be so close to tracks
1/2/1990
Man hit by train. A 51-year-old man was struck by a slow-moving freight train as he tried to cross the tracks at Osler St., north of Dupont St., last (...)
Man hit by train. A 51-year-old man was struck by a slow-moving freight train as he tried to cross the tracks at Osler St., north of Dupont St., last (...)
8/26/1991
Metro police and CN Rail officials search the tracks near Dupont and Huron Sts
Metro police and CN Rail officials search the tracks near Dupont and Huron Sts
6/5/1990
Kingston Road, looking north from Queen Street East, opposite Woodbine Park race track, at the junction of the Toronto Railway Company's King Street line on Queen Street East and the Toronto & Scarboro Railway's line on Kingston Road, Toronto, Ont.
Kingston Road, looking north from Queen Street East, opposite Woodbine Park race track, at the junction of the Toronto Railway Company's King Street line on Queen Street East and the Toronto & Scarboro Railway's line on Kingston Road, Toronto, Ont.
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