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Went to see the Canadian come down the Don Valley but it just sat up the line waiting for GO Richmond Hill trains to go north for 90 minutes and it was getting dark. Complain all you want about CN Rail, but Metrolinx is a terrible host to VIA Rail trains. Anyways, while I was there, I flew the...

In June, 2003, a special train (CP 2816 aka the "Empress") went over the bridge pulling a GO consist. I caught this view from our condo at Don Mills and Eglinton. I still miss those views...we moved out in 2007. Maybe someday we'll get GO service across midtown although I doubt it.

Yesterday (Oct 22).

They were not windows. Just openings. And IIRC the panels were installed partly for noise, but mostly to keep the elements out and reduce maintenance.

September 30, 2024.

My running crew ran over to the park from downtown this morning. What a great addition to the area. Never thought to look up when we were in the lookout...next time! The water fountain, bottle filler and the bike tools are much appreciated in that area too. Well worth the wait for this little...

Nice juxtaposition with the TTC buses that clearly inspired the cladding colurs for this one.

Steady progress...shot today August 31, 2024.

Don Cherry's Sports Grill? I'm only half joking.

The road east from Victoria Park is well under construction. It's been a traffic mess since they've closed the entrance to the FreshCo plaza for the last week and a bit. Looks like a match for the renderings with Musgrave being extended through the traffic lights and then an entrance to the...

Boaters most certainly do care about the western end. With the marine exclusion zone that extends out even further, it significantly narrows the space at the western end of the western channel between the island and Ontario Place.

Not a whole lot of change to report, but I put the drone up and snapped a couple of shots for reference. Hopefully things start to get underway soon. Roadbed going in off Gerrard, just east of the Shell station. Smarter place to access the site instead of off Vic Park. Same old same old.

They will likely just back up the Don Valley rather than go to all the trouble to run a train out to Oakville to turn it around. Much easier to keep things the same as every other train (for boarding, etc.) and then just back the train up to Doncaster, do the turn around there and head north.

The elevators in the tunnel on both the north and south sides have been out of service for quite some time. Hopefully they actually come back in service in the spring as promised.

Is there a way to hide or ignore a thread? These threads for buildings that are hundreds of kilometres from Toronto in places like Kitchener, Ancaster, Brantford and Niagara Falls are decidedly out of place in an Urban Toronto forum.

Or close it and have Wickstead end at the tracks on both sides.

It's a cantilevered platform for bringing stuff onto (or off of) that floor via crane. It's easier to stick that thing there, which extends inside and is fixed in place at the other end, and then there is a nice platform to put stuff on rather than having to swing it in somehow. This one is cool...

Because for the last few years moderation has become less and less apparent and things are getting more and more messy. We have threads for building projects in Hamilton, Guelph, Oshawa, Niagara Falls and more in the Buildings forum despite there being separate forums for Vaughan and Mississauga...

Taken today (Nov 23, 2022) Second floor windows actually went up a month or two ago, then were removed and now it's back. Not sure what the issue was. Real brick is nice. The inset windows look pretty good. More brick happening on the west side.

We have a crane!