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No contest: There's usually not much left when a moving train hits a car or truck, as the driver of this wreck discovered last year when he left it stalled on a Scarborough railway line
No contest: There's usually not much left when a moving train hits a car or truck, as the driver of this wreck discovered last year when he left it stalled on a Scarborough railway line

No contest: There's usually not much left when a moving train hits a car or truck, as the driver of this wreck discovered last year when he left it stalled on a Scarborough railway line

Date7/19/1988
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Original Toronto Star caption: No contest: There's usually not much left when a moving train hits a car or truck; as the driver of this wreck discovered last year when he left it stalled on a Scarborough railway line.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0001149F
      Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
      Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
      Bull, Ron
      12/5/1973
      Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
      Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
      Bull, Ron
      12/5/1973
      Commuters delayed. A GO train tore apart a stalled car early today moments after its driver jumped out and ran from the tracks on Scarborough Golf Clu(...)
      Commuters delayed. A GO train tore apart a stalled car early today moments after its driver jumped out and ran from the tracks on Scarborough Golf Clu(...)
      Millar, Cal
      7/19/1988
      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 (...)
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      Stancu, Henry
      8/26/1991
      Strike hits food terminalL, Truck drivers and other employees of the Oshawa Group picketed the company warehouse at the Ontario Food Terminal today, d(...)
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      Eglinton, Rick
      5/1/1991
      Troubled family: Doug Connell, left, who suffered severe brain damage four years ago when a transport truck slammed into his car, can't understand why his parents, Mary and Ron, don't think he's able to handle his former job.
      Troubled family: Doug Connell, left, who suffered severe brain damage four years ago when a transport truck slammed into his car, can't understand why his parents, Mary and Ron, don't think he's able to handle his former job.
      Russell, Jim
      4/3/1984
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      McConnell, Colin
      1/10/1978
      Fatal path: A Whitby pedestrian yesterday heads for the illegal railway crossing where Stephen Buker, inset, died Tuesday when he was hit by a train
      Fatal path: A Whitby pedestrian yesterday heads for the illegal railway crossing where Stephen Buker, inset, died Tuesday when he was hit by a train
      Millar, Cal
      9/4/1991
      Train hits silo, silo crushes car
      Train hits silo, silo crushes car
      Faught, Ken
      8/17/1986
      Race with time: Emergency crews work to retrieve the leg and arms severed from 13-year-old Eddie Whitall of Port Credit yesterday when he fell under the wheels of a slow-moving CN freight train
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      Stuparyk, Michael
      4/20/1987
      Capt. Bill Bristow tried out retirement in Florida when he officially left Air Canada four years ago. But the active former airline pilot soon discovered that the lazy life was not for him, so now he runs a business which gives badly needed advice to people heading out on holidays. Now Bristow is where the action is
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      Loek, Dick
      10/24/1973
      When the Coho hits, it hits hard and breaks water
      When the Coho hits, it hits hard and breaks water
      Bull, Ron
      9/16/1979