Caption: Over 7 decades ago...

A warm spring day finds a 6-pack of TTC subway cars heading eastbound along the Bloor-Danforth line's eastern section open cut, between Victoria Park and Warden subway stations. 20 minutes later, the same train will be heading back west after turning at Kennedy Station. People enjoying a leisurely stroll at the nearby Prairie Drive Park pay no attention, likely used to the rumbling of the subway through Oakridge (Scarborough).

While a hydro corridor and subway line inhabit this open stretch in the photo, nearly 80 years before a railway line ran through here: the old Canadian Northern Railways (CNoR) Trenton Subdivision (later renamed the Orono Sub) from Todmorden (in the Don Valley) to Ottawa. Once Canadian National (CN) took over the Grand Trunk and CNoR in 1923, much of this line was eventually abandoned due to duplicate rail lines in the area (the current CNR Kingston Sub to the south being the main one). It would be another 40 years until construction of a subway line in the 1960's began and rail returned.