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An armchair ride on the rails through Toronto Transit history
An armchair ride on the rails through Toronto Transit history

An armchair ride on the rails through Toronto Transit history

Date10/10/1970
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  • An armchair ride on the rails through Toronto Transit history
  • An armchair ride on the rails through Toronto Transit history
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Original Toronto Star caption: An armchair ride on the rails through Toronto Transit history
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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_0115604F
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      No money: Rails lie empty but main reason why grand transit ideas stay dreams is shortage of money, says Metro Chairman Alan Tonks
      No money: Rails lie empty but main reason why grand transit ideas stay dreams is shortage of money, says Metro Chairman Alan Tonks
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      3/7/1978
      Riding the rails. Metro police Constable Garry Harrison rides Prince on patrol along the Bloor subway line near Kipling station as the police bomb ale(...)
      Riding the rails. Metro police Constable Garry Harrison rides Prince on patrol along the Bloor subway line near Kipling station as the police bomb ale(...)
      Bock, Tony
      4/2/1985
      Rail Relaxation: Bob Macdonald of Burlington puts his feet up and settles down to read his newspaper as Via Rail's Transcontinental train rolls through Muskoka
      Rail Relaxation: Bob Macdonald of Burlington puts his feet up and settles down to read his newspaper as Via Rail's Transcontinental train rolls through Muskoka
      Spremo, Boris
      11/29/1989
      Rail Relaxation: Bob Macdonald of Burlington puts his feet up and settles down to read his newspaper as VIA Rail's Transcontinental train rolls through Muskoka
      Rail Relaxation: Bob Macdonald of Burlington puts his feet up and settles down to read his newspaper as VIA Rail's Transcontinental train rolls through Muskoka
      Spremo, Boris
      3/29/1989
      Some of the crowd of curious persons Which gathered outside the iron fence of Osgoode Hall to see the various personalities, gazing through the iron rails
      Some of the crowd of curious persons Which gathered outside the iron fence of Osgoode Hall to see the various personalities, gazing through the iron rails
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      11/6/1936
      Way of life: Engineer Joe Tiernay has been riding the rails for 42 years and thinks showers on trains might be a good way of encouraging travel by rail
      Way of life: Engineer Joe Tiernay has been riding the rails for 42 years and thinks showers on trains might be a good way of encouraging travel by rail
      Spremo, Boris
      3/29/1989
      Long night: Pickets at CP Rail's Agincourt yard warm themselves around a barrel fire last night as they prepare for a long strike by 48,000 CN and CP rail workers across the country
      Long night: Pickets at CP Rail's Agincourt yard warm themselves around a barrel fire last night as they prepare for a long strike by 48,000 CN and CP rail workers across the country
      Dunlop, Al
      8/23/1987
      The Toronto Brass Manufacturing Company : manufacturers of window display fixtures : artistic builders' and cabinet hardware, brass rails, signs, etc.
      The Toronto Brass Manufacturing Company : manufacturers of window display fixtures : artistic builders' and cabinet hardware, brass rails, signs, etc.
      Toronto Brass Manufacturing Company
      1901
      Toronto and York Radial Railroad, Mimico Division, remains of rails crossing Parkside Drive, north of Lakeshore Boulevard (on old Lakeshore Road.), looking east
      Toronto and York Radial Railroad, Mimico Division, remains of rails crossing Parkside Drive, north of Lakeshore Boulevard (on old Lakeshore Road.), looking east
      Salmon, James V. (James Victor)
      1953
      King-size mess. A repair crew works on the streetcar rails on King St. W. near Ossington Ave. yesterday. Riders and motorists can expect delays on Kin(...)
      King-size mess. A repair crew works on the streetcar rails on King St. W. near Ossington Ave. yesterday. Riders and motorists can expect delays on Kin(...)
      Bock, Tony
      10/20/1992
      Angry clash: Union member Tom North, left, argues with Fred Malashewski, general chairman of CN Rail's Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, after a rowdy union meeting last night at a Keele St
      Angry clash: Union member Tom North, left, argues with Fred Malashewski, general chairman of CN Rail's Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, after a rowdy union meeting last night at a Keele St
      Spremo, Boris
      8/20/1987
      Car crash victim Cora Davies learns to walk again using arm rails at the new Lyndhurst Hospital, which was officially yesterday. The hospital, which r(...)
      Car crash victim Cora Davies learns to walk again using arm rails at the new Lyndhurst Hospital, which was officially yesterday. The hospital, which r(...)
      Bakerly, Harold
      11/6/1974