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Caption: After coming down the Don Branch from Leaside, Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 1260 (G5c-class, built 1946 by CLC Kingston) stops at Don Station on a westbound passenger train on its final leg downtown to Toronto's Union Station. A TTC bus (probably a 1900-series Can-Car) heads west on the Queen Street bridge spanning the rail corridor and nearby Don River.
With the decline of passenger service in the 1960's, the CPR's Don Station (opened in 1896) was closed in 1968, and moved to Todmorden Mills a year later for preservation. It has since been moved downtown and is now one of the centerpieces at the Toronto Railway Museum's "Roundhouse Park".
Original photographer unknown (duplicate slide), Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.
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Beautiful, look at the shine on 1260’s boiler, the white walled pony truck and driving wheels, the colourful flower beds and neatly trimmed green grass beside the wooden platform and the fresh white paint on the concrete supports for the platform railing, all indicative of the pride that railway workers had in their work in the 1950’s. Even the small, lightly patronized station Don Station looked classy with its beautiful lawn and flowers – no trash lying around, no rubble, no graffiti, how refreshing. Thank you for posting
John