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Aerial view of downtown Vancouver yards 1953
Detailed description of facilities.
Impressive! “Gateway To The Pacific” all right!
CP’s Drake Street Roundhouse is now a community centre:
http://roundhouse.ca/about-us/round-house-history/
With CP 374 on display:
Drake Street.
Was there 50 years ago.
Steeple cabs still under the Georgia Viaduct. Passenger Torpedo Geeps in from ’ The Canadian ’ more Baldwins running than you could shake a stick at, Shays on North Shore. Travelled by GM New Look bus w chiming fare recorder box. Tons of CCF Brills Diesel and Electric.
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Drake Street.
Was there 50 years ago.
Steeple cabs still under the Georgia Viaduct. Passenger Torpedo Geeps in from ’ The Canadian ’ more Baldwins running than you could shake a stick at, Shays on North Shore. Travelled by GM New Look bus w chiming fare recorder box. Tons of CCF Brills Diesel and Electric.
SD70Dude states-- "Amazing how such a heavily industrialized area has been transformed into a downtown urban hipster paradise (it’s scary, but I would fit right in!). "
A familiar story throughout all of North America. What are the now and future generations supposed to do? … do they all sell insurance to each other?.. code?? … live off da fatta da lan?
In Vancouver they chew granola and vape many different things, all of which are legal now!
In Edmonton much of the old CN City Yard is now occupied by the Grant MacEwan University and Rogers Place, new home of the NHL’s Oilers.
Just west of the Grant MacEwan campus the foundations of the Canadian Northern roundhouse and turntable were briefly rediscovered during a construction project several years ago.
You said it Miningman! One day we’re (rhetorically speaking) going to miss all that industry, mark my words.
You and I probably won’t live to see that day, but as far as I’m concerned it’s going to come, sooner or later.