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Long Island Mike
Guest
Everyone: I would like to know if GO TRANSIT is planning any kind of special celebration for its 40th anniversary on May 23rd. I work with ephemera here at the National Railway Historical Society here in Philadelphia,PA and I decided to pull out and look at our filed GO TRANSIT ephemera and schedules-we have on file: The original GO TRANSIT schedule effective May 23rd as well as later issues as June 26th and October 29,1967;April 28th and October 27,1968 as examples of those original issues.
As for the ephemera we have: GO TRANSIT: A NEW APPROACH TO URBAN TRANSPORTATION soft cover booklet dated April 1968;Twenty Five Years on the GO-soft cover booklet from 1992;an original brochure from Hawker-Siddeley from the mid 70s showing artist's renderings of the GO double-deck car and a pamphlet out of my own personal collection about the then-new GO section of Toronto Union Station dated August 2,1979 that came out of my own rail collection-I was visiting Toronto for the first time and I was there for that opening day. From the GO TRANSIT rail service beginnings as just an experimental operation it has grown into a major commuter rail system that was a success almost from the start.
GO TRANSIT RAIL-40 years of service for TORONTO!
LI MIKE
As for the ephemera we have: GO TRANSIT: A NEW APPROACH TO URBAN TRANSPORTATION soft cover booklet dated April 1968;Twenty Five Years on the GO-soft cover booklet from 1992;an original brochure from Hawker-Siddeley from the mid 70s showing artist's renderings of the GO double-deck car and a pamphlet out of my own personal collection about the then-new GO section of Toronto Union Station dated August 2,1979 that came out of my own rail collection-I was visiting Toronto for the first time and I was there for that opening day. From the GO TRANSIT rail service beginnings as just an experimental operation it has grown into a major commuter rail system that was a success almost from the start.
GO TRANSIT RAIL-40 years of service for TORONTO!
LI MIKE