Comments on: Toronto – North Bay Budd cars head through King City, cutting across the King Road and Keele Street crossings. Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.

By: railwayguy

railwayguy — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 01:43:40 +0000

Thanks for your comments, it was Boxing Day and the usual 2-car RDC train was increased to four RDC’s to handle the Christmas travellers. Stephen, to answer your question, the Newmarket Sub road bed and track was lowered into a “trench” to pass underneath King Rd and Keele St. One day, plan to visit this site and photograph a GO train passing the same location.

By: awmooney

awmooney — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:43:23 +0000

This is a GREAT old time scene.

By: Stephen C. Host

Stephen C. Host — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 13:28:17 +0000

Did they build the overpasses or was the rail line trenched to make room ?

It looks like the latter..

By: Aitch

Aitch — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 22:14:28 +0000

Wow; just a beautiful image !

By: Jacob Patterson

Jacob Patterson — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 21:56:37 +0000

This is a great scene, John.

By: MrDan

MrDan — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 21:03:45 +0000

Nice, before they built the overpasses separating the rail line.

Including the Toronto/Nobleton signs are a nice touch, note there was a zig-zag there along King Road – very common back in the day (and still today on rural roads) due to the very early practice of surveyors using chain lengths and other inaccurate measurement techniques when originally surveying all the lots and concessions, resulting in a lot of disjointed roads.