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Happy holidays????? Marry Christmas

Happy holidays!

Saw it by random at Pharmacy Ave. just north of Lawerence Ave.

HaPpY Holidays Steve

So cool

Cool, happy holidays ❄️

Its railway in canada not railroads dumby

You should do a video on union station

Breaks my heart.

Do a video on the Middle Rd Bridge (original route for QEW)

"his report was daming" LOLZ Well played, @notsmoothsteve , well played

hey steve, a friend and I are looking to make a 'rail bike' and travel on some abandoned rails. would you think this is a suitable candidate? if not, do you know of others in southern Ontario?

Beare Rd is pronounced Beer Rd! I used to haul ashes to Beare(bear/bare) Rd when I worked for Metro Works in the early 70’s. I never heard anyone call it Beer Rd. Thx for your video though,it’s informative.

As a kid i remember visiting Toronto and i remember train tracks crossing Bathurst north of Eg. 15 yesrs later i moved to Toronto on Roselawn. 2 yrs later Dad moved on Shallmar. Mum moved with her husband to Bathurst/Roslawn. All of us less than around 200 meters. The Beltline was a godsend to bike and walk. You could tell there were creeks. There were sewers just north of the north end of Chaplin Crescent, you could hear the water close to the surface

2:30 where is that place? I'd like to visit if I can. Looks like it gives you a nice view of the city.

Thanks for this video. You did not intend it, but besides Dundas Street history, you show what an ugly, mishmashed city, we live in.

New immigrants often adopt the 'Spadeena' version. I was one, but then I followed the crowd ...

Thanks for this fascinating history - I’ve seen videos in the US of ppl adapting their bikes to ride rails. That would be fun. What’s the longest stretch of unused rail in this system - Streetsville to Orangeville?

I was a combat engineer in the army in the 70's we would build these on the shore of a water crossing and the company would push these bridges to the other side with manpower alone, it was so much fun

Mudflood

was so happy to see this video on my feed from this amazing channel; been so interested in this topic for years

It shows up in Mississauga on Dundas Street at Mavis. There is a very low lying subrub here.

Thanks for video very informative. Although I’m on other side of the country I found this video good.

I wanted to watch the last train and bring my newborn nephew watch it with me as his first time ever seeing a train. Sadly I never got to do that biggest regrets of my life. At least he likes trains now since he’s rode the port Stanley one 3 times

Jackson creek of Etobicoke was a chunky one Now no creeks in Etobicoke from Etobicoke creek to mimico/humber

Abandon

Love this channel

And now there building lrt on hwy 10 Brampton to Mississauga

bro I watch these while im eating dinner cheers

Another of your videos that touches on the memories. We moved to Owen Sound from Toronto when I was 10. My grandmother didn't drive so until the rail service to Owen Sound ended, she would often take the train as it made fewer stops than the bus. I travelled with her a few times on this route. When we rode it, the service was Budd Rail-Diesel cars like the remaining VIA Rail Train 185 out of Sudbury. In hindsight it was easy to see why they cancelled it, on one winter trip, probably for her annual Christmas visit, we rode in the single RDC making up the "train" and as the only passengers for the last part of the trip, the conductor let us stand in the front door foyer area to see out the front and watch the snow swirling every time the RDC ploughed through a drift or road crossing snowbank.

wasteful spending.. by liberals.. history always repeats itself hahah

I was very proud to have been part of the Peel team that helped to acquire the rail corridor. I appreciate the comments suggesting the line should be used for some sort of transit way - however, residents should know that this option was studied extensively in the past and determined not to be viable. Keeping the entirety of the corridor in public ownership was vitally important to maintaining future options open. In the meantime I hope the public will support the current efforts to repurpose the corridor to a trail.

I played along the Orangeville Brampton railline as a child back in the '50s close to where the old Dales greenhouses grew so many beautiful roses. I do remember seeing then Prime Minister John Deifenbacher campaigning off the rear of a train at the Brampton station on that line. If my memory is correct the station was just off Queen St. W and this would have been around 1958 give or take a year or two. I left Brampton in the early '60s so my memory iof that era s a bit hazy.

Enjoyed your video. Would you think about doing a video on Guelph Junction?

It was a sad day when I realized they were ripping out all of the tracks here in town. I know it had been a long time since I'd last seen a train, but a good passenger train from Orangeville to Toronto would have been huge.

I was so happy finding out the rail line closed before i moved up here. It was losing 400,000 dollars a year that taxpayers had to pay for. Lets hope it never becomes rail again.

It is insane that railways are private companies. Should be a public utility.

I know exactly where you are standing. I had no idea those tracks were THAT old. I didn't know the original station was moved to the Mount Pleasant location. Assumed it was its original location and always wondered about that.

About 50 years ago, I took a steam excursion train from Union station, in Toronto, up to Orangeville and back, which would have passed over this track. I recall 2 water stops. One had the fire department out to connect to a hydrant, but the other was at a still working water tower.

Much like the many homes which were needed post war. And hurricaine hazel was weather event 70 forgotten years ago. By current premiere.

People should realize Metrolinx isn’t necessarily stupid or shortsighted. Metrolinx doesn’t want this right of way because it meanders and the route has speed limiting curves and grades. Think 50 km/h… not good for passenger traffic. No ridership now or in the future. It’s dead. Metrolinx is correct to have no interest in this line. Losing this line means letting go of something obsolete. When we build a rail line to Orangeville someday it will be on a more suitable alignment.

Rest in Peace Mark Nichols Hobo Shoestring

I loved watching the train come by, i coudnt watch the last one but i want to walk down the whole 50km to orangeville soon

Thanks!

NO Lets just use basic common sense Its just old concession land division lines if that. I doubt that There was any road road there called finch there to begin with. The naming and alignment of streets in Toronto became an inane obsession of retardation and only engineers can come up with such namings. After the rural / suburban townships became Metro Toronto, a two tiered municipal federation for sharing municipal services came about and engineers started to stitch roads that never met or existed to create arterial roads across the new metro toronto. It was an obsession when you look at the 100 small streets that was stitched together to create the parts two parts of Dundas street that never met or lost due to farming or devlopment How does a street continue across a 1/2 mile across a valley and have the same name? You know its made up retardation if you look at St.Clair Avenue in Scarborough. St.Clair was just a small local road in the far west end of Toronto the what was York township

Often wonder that rail line that used to go from FT Erie to Windsor through Hagersvile and ST Thomas are any of those tracks still down there and are any in use i remember back in the early 70. S they would run a lot of train's between Buffalo and Detroit as a short cut

Well, in my humble opinion, that was pretty smooth, Steve. I, as do many others, feel that MetroSTINX has missed an opportunity to establish GO Train service up to Orangeville. There would be some obvious issues to work out right off the hop, but I honestly think it would be worth the effort. Furthermore, if GO were to "get on board" (pardon the pun) with service on a rail line, it might give some of the industries some comfort, knowing that rail service will be possible for quite some time to come. If they think that the line is doomed, nobody is going to plan for or build sidings, loading and unloading infrastructure for their business, and they will most certainly plan to receive and ship by truck, or even search out other potential places to establish their business ventures close(er) to active rail lines. From a movie a few decades ago, came a saying. "If you build it, they will come." Well, in this instance, if you don't build it, they certainly aren't going to be bothered.

Good information there! You might be interested in doing a piece on the London & Port Stanley Railway and how the line was electrified by Sir Adam Beck (Hydro) as a prototype for mass transit. Unfortunately the automotive lobby messed up everything. Funny how things sometimes come full circle. But imagine if Beck was successful. We would have had a very impressive electrified mass transit system.

Why the need to build railways during a long recession?

Good video. I was sad with the demise of OBRY but money makes the world go around.