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1972 and still a traffic jam on the Gardiner!
Love the view, thanks for sharing.
Now that as got to be a ‘rare’ view. Nice!!!
Guess you didn’t get very far AWM….
Flat tire. Annoyed.
…and still studying what to do with it. Brilliant history lesson BTW; all that open space and mostly friendly rail staff everywhere.
In the foreground with the boxcars and platforms is a small team track area. Hendrie Cartage (a transport company that
was part of CN, IIRC) was noted as working out of a platform or two. A few tracks also went down to the CN Express building out of frame to the left. This area eventually became a parking lot off Front St. for the CN Tower.
AMAZING shot Frank. Interestingly 10 years later not much would have changed in this shot. 1981 the year I hired on CN , North Bathurst yard was no longer used. The freight shed was still standing I remember they made me carry a knuckle from the building in the foreground to one of the tracks, where and old CN reefer was parked and we had to climb the reefer and put on a handbrake. Heady stuff for a young “foamer” like me.
Thanks for the memories
It is also interesting to see the Canadian National Exhibition in the background. The permanent roller coaster, the Shell Tower and the Grandstand are all gone now.
Very interesting image…neat little detail about the time – it is displayed on the sign in the background – digital too.