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Caption: I wonder how many realize this structure still exists? John St tower, at the foot of John St down by the railroad corridor was built around the same time the 'new' Union Station came into being, back in the 1920s. From this building track was controlled between Union and Bathurst Yard.
The Tower still exists, looking a lot less like a tower, since its roof was shaved off in order to accommodate the walkway over the railroad to the Rogers Centre. So it is now hidden away right below the walkway.
In this photo you can see the first walkway, this to the CN Tower immediately to the east. Once upon a time John St was a neat little place to catch some passenger traffic. But that was 40 years ago.................
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The illuminated arrow points to the side for unloading passengers providing advance notice to train crew.
Thats one mystery solved. Thanks, Raymond.
Also known as Cabin “C”. Cabins A and B are east of Union Station and C, D, and E are to the west. Cabin D was always the best known and most photographed.
Anyone have an idea where Cabins A,B and E were located? I know where D was and I guess now C.
Cabin A was at Cherry Street, B was Scott Street, C was John Street (photos show there may have been different interlocking towers originally, later replaced with those three current structures in the 1930′s that housed the then-new signal and switch system for the TTR).
Cabin D was the wooden tower at Bathurst Street until that interlocking was automated in the early 1980′s and the tower removed (the location was then officially renamed “Bathurst Street”), and Cabin E was a small wooden tower along the Oakville Sub east of the current Exhibition GO station, at the diamond with the CP ex-TG&B “Wharf Spur” (this location was removed in the 1980′s, the plant rebuilt with crossovers for CP to cross, and renamed as CN “Fort York” interlocking).
Again, thank you, Encyclopedia MrDan.
) This is good information to look back on when needed.
Another neat thing in your shot Arnold is the “fence track” siding in front of the tower, running along the fence on top of the retaining wall (hence the name). It was popular for parking business and private cars while the execs and big-wigs stayed at the Royal York or went into town. I think it’s been turned into a through track for the corridor in recent years.