Water Tower: (3D Satellite)
Original Coaling Tower: (Satellite, "corner of Lower Simcoe Street and Bremner Boulevard")
Current Coaling Tower: (3D Satellite)
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| Old Toronto Series posted and DigitalArchive The view of downtown from close to the present day location of the Skydome in 1930. D Eric Davis shared |
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| Max Izod commented on the above post Here's a 1939 aerial photo showing all the same landscape, but I've added an overlay of a 2022 placement of where the Skydome now sits, as well as an arrow pointing from where I think the photo was taken - the top of the silos on the waterfront. |
The tall concrete monolith is the base of the CN tower.
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| Street View, Sep 2022 |
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| Toronto Railway Museum posted #OTD [Feb 27]: No. 6213 was chosen for preservation and presentation to the City of Toronto! Discover 6213’s journey to the museum from when it was retired from service in 1959 to its arrival at the museum in 2009. http://ow.ly/a44z50MWgWw Brian R. Wroblewski shared It's too bad that the museum is cut off from active tracks. TO is such a big city, with big $ that I'd think they could support an operational train ride of some sort there. [According to some comments, Steam Whistle is a brewery.] Carl Skompinski: Museum co-founder Jim Sandoro bought a section of track from CSX to run a short train near Buffalo's Transportation Museum. https://buffalonews.com/.../article_47477e83-c750-59be... [paywall] |
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| Jerry Lepsch posted the view from the top of the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada look down below at the former Canadian National Railroad Roundhouse. John Vincent: That's actually CPR's John St round house, now the Toronto Railway Museum. John Wood: When was the second roundhouse removed? John Vincent: John Wood When the Skydome was built, 1986. Rob Sterne: John Wood The CNR Spadina roundhouse was in the lower right of the photo. The white roof is the Rogers Centre, aka SkyDome. |
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It looks like they moved some other railroad buildings to this location. The building with the dome was obviously a rural depot at a junction.
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| Street View, Jan 2018 |
This is what brought the depot to my attention.
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| Emmanuel Lugo, Jul 2021 |
Obviously, this used to be the coaling tower.
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| Brad Waldo, Feb 2023 |
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| 3D Satellite |
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| Jack Gerien posted I really enjoy this group and find it fascinating. But, I never post. I thought my FB memory from 8 years would be appreciated by the group. Abandoned, but repurposed: the Toronto roundhouse museum, restaurant, event space. Rolando Maggi shared |
The coaling tower was moved 600' (183m) to its current location.
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CN Tower
"CN Tower, broadcast and telecommunications tower in Toronto. Standing at a height of 1,815 feet (553 metres), it was the world’s tallest freestanding structure until 2007, when it was surpassed by the Burj Dubai building in Dubayy (Dubai), U.A.E....The tower was completed in February 1974, and the attachment of its antenna was finished in April 1975." It first opened to the public on Jun 26, 1976. [britannica]
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| Old Toronto Series posted A Sikorsky Skycrane helicopter hovers over the CN Tower and prepares to lift the crane from atop the tower March 8, 1975. credit: Globe & Mail Robert C. Taylor: Olga The Helicopter. I lived at Spadina and Dundas ( Vanauley Walk )... watched the tower grow... Carl Dimitriou: There is a story behind that. Apparently when the helicopter was trying to position the top, it got stuck, they couldn't go up or down ,for awhile they weren't sure how to free it up. Luckily they were able to free it up and finish installing it. I was driving by that day in my Camaro,unaware of the crisis. Gregory Glenn: That is not the top of the CN tower Alan Mackenzie: I was arriving to start my new life in Canada saw this out of the airplane window ……June 15 1975. Peter Hirsch: I remember my dad trying to explain what slip forming was and then being able to watch it being done on the tower was cool Grant Gillespie: I watched the final portion of the radio mast being installed. We were in the rail yard beside the tower. The last piece was lifted into place while some guys guided it into place. Then one of them climbed up the unsecured piece and down the outside of it to attach the bolts. |
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| William Mancini commented on the above post That photo looks like it could have been taken by one of the many helicopters buzzing around the tower that day. I took this from the top of the TD Tower. |
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| Old Toronto Series posted The CN Tower under construction in January 1975. credit: Globe & Mail |
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