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Old Posted Aug 23, 2014, 5:21 AM
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It was built by the Guinness Family, as in the beer, and the proper pronunciation is like "Elden".

I lived about a block away from Elveden when I was 5-6.
Indeed the third tower is named Guinness House, and the rear of the building is decorated with the Guinness harp logo and other Irish symbols (if memory serves). Can't seem to find any pictures.

Here's the full story on Elveden House if anyone is curious:

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Amazing Ottawa shots. Easier now for me to imagine what it was like to have central station downtown !

And Hull was so small back then !
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Old Posted Aug 24, 2014, 5:19 AM
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Calgary in the mid/late 80's. Caption reads "Looking Southwest along Memorial Drive showing Calgary's modern Light Rail Transit System in the foreground."



Source Calgary Public Library, http://cdm280501.cdmhost.com/cdm/sin...d/1384/rec/146
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On a transportation theme...

Vancouver ~1983


"The certificate given out for riding the prebuild, Main Street SkyTrain demonstration line! Scan kindly provided by Rob Chew." The demonstration line opened in 1983 according to Wikipedia (link).

Source http://buzzer.translink.ca/category/skytrain/page/3/

Edmonton 1969


CP Rail passenger train crossing the High Level Bridge on its way to (or from?) Calgary. The Edmonton terminus was changed to Strathcona Station on the south side (no more bridge crossings) in 1972.

Credit Weston Langford, source and full size image at http://www.westonlangford.com/images/photo/110268/

Calgary 1985


VIA Rail Dayliner heading to Edmonton, July 1985. Calgary-Edmonton service was discontinued in September of that year.

Credit Massey F. Jones, source http://yourrailwaypictures.com/OldDi...railiners.html

More information on Calgary-Edmonton passenger rail: http://tracksidetreasure.blogspot.ca...cs-part-1.html

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Old Posted Aug 24, 2014, 5:27 PM
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Amazing Ottawa shots. Easier now for me to imagine what it was like to have central station downtown !

And Hull was so small back then !
Here's some pics of when Union station was in operation:


Source:http://www.bytown.net/railways.htm


Source:http://www.nccwatch.org/blunders/unionstation.htm

Interior:

http://www.nccwatch.org/blunders/unionstation.htm
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Old Posted Aug 25, 2014, 12:29 AM
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Grand !
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On a transportation theme...

Vancouver ~1983


"The certificate given out for riding the prebuild, Main Street SkyTrain demonstration line! Scan kindly provided by Rob Chew." The demonstration line opened in 1983 according to Wikipedia (link).

Source http://buzzer.translink.ca/category/skytrain/page/3/
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^how quaint. i remember these extreme-80s sky train images well
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Kewl pics all around..I never realized Van's sky train went back to the 80's..Thought it was newer.
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Interesting comparison posted elsewhere by trueviking of same WPG view, turn of 20th century and today:



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I was born in Ottawa, so following the Union Station link ☝ here's an early article about Union Station in Winnipeg (originally Fort Garry Station, the Union depot) + a shot of it today with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and Esplanade Riel behind at the Forks leading to St.-Boniface:




- Sheena Fraser McGoogan


https://www.flickr.com/photos/morrismulvey/11166424965/

Constructed between 1908 and 1911, the station was built as a joint venture between the Canadian Northern Railway, National Transcontinental, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and the Dominion government. The first train to enter the station did so on 7 August 1911, with the official opening the following year on 24 June 1912.

Union Station was designed by Warren and Wetmore, the architects responsible for Grand Central Terminal in New York City. Designed in the Beaux-Arts style and constructed from local Tyndall limestone, Union Station was one of Western Canada’s largest railway stations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Station_(Winnipeg)

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Old Posted Aug 27, 2014, 5:32 PM
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Kewl pics all around..I never realized Van's sky train went back to the 80's..Thought it was newer.
Remember seeing it as a kid at Expo 86...


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Man was 'Union Station' ever a popular name for central train stations.
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Old Posted Aug 27, 2014, 7:22 PM
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Man was 'Union Station' ever a popular name for central train stations.
Unlike with airports which are generally common use, each railway generally used to operate their own station. It was therefore not uncommon for there to be multiple railway stations in a single city... a union station is simply a common name for a railway station that served more than one railway, although not every union station is actually known as such.

So for example in Winnipeg, the CP Station was simply called the CP Station, while the joint CNoR/NTR/GTP Station was the "Union Station".

Just to keep this vaguely on topic, here's a vintage photo of the CP Station, Winnipeg's "other" station. It's still around but it hasn't been used by passenger trains since 1978:

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Old Posted Aug 27, 2014, 8:16 PM
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I'm really impressed with Winnipeg's station. For some reason I thought they'd closed their grand station and moved out to the burbs.

Here's Quebec City's station, built in 1916 (Gare du Palais)


Credit Wm. Notman & Son, Musee McCord, http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/scrip...imageID=163914

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Old Posted Aug 27, 2014, 8:27 PM
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I'm really impressed with Winnipeg's station. For some reason I thought they'd closed their grand station and moved out to the burbs.
A couple of western Canadian cities did that... Edmonton got what amounts to an Amshack out by the Yellowhead Highway in the late 90s, and Saskatoon built a station way out on the fringes of town in the 60s. Vancouver and Winnipeg have always had stations downtown, although passenger rail in these parts barely rates as an afterthought with very low passenger counts across the board.

In case anyone is interested, Via is just finishing up a renovation job at Union Station. They got rid of a lot of ugly 80s and 90s design elements... it looks as good now as it ever has in my lifetime, although it is not very busy these days... down to 8 trains a week in the winter (10 in the summer). There used to be that many trains each day when I was a kid!

Great shots of Gare du Palais, BTW. It is a really spectacular station inside... they did a beautiful job restoring it back in the 80s. (For a while, Quebec's station was relegated to the suburbs too)
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^ Ah I knew about Edmonton, just figured it happened in Winnipeg too.

Edmonton had a handful of classic railway stations (no Union Station as discussed above), CN being the last to offer passenger service moved theirs to the base of the CN Tower when it was built in 1966.

Late 60s-early 70s, with City Hall on the right-

CN TOWER CITY HALL EDMONTON ALBERTA by Tikiville43, on Flickr

Views from the top of Edmonton's CN Tower, ~1969
Photographer K. Kaesekamp, Provincial Archives of Alberta


^ https://hermis.alberta.ca/paa/PhotoG...bjectID=A1086e

^ https://hermis.alberta.ca/paa/PhotoG...bjectID=A1087c

^ https://hermis.alberta.ca/paa/PhotoG...bjectID=A1084c

^ https://hermis.alberta.ca/paa/PhotoG...bjectID=A1085d

^ https://hermis.alberta.ca/paa/PhotoG...bjectID=A1085E

Date of 1969 is based on Telus (AGT) tower topped out, with the second taller tower completed in 1981 1971.


And finally, Edmonton skyline in 1984 (or is it 2005?)


& https://hermis.alberta.ca/paa/PhotoG...bjectID=A12948

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A couple of western Canadian cities did that... Edmonton got what amounts to an Amshack out by the Yellowhead Highway in the late 90s, and Saskatoon built a station way out on the fringes of town in the 60s. Vancouver and Winnipeg have always had stations downtown, although passenger rail in these parts barely rates as an afterthought with very low passenger counts across the board.

In case anyone is interested, Via is just finishing up a renovation job at Union Station. They got rid of a lot of ugly 80s and 90s design elements... it looks as good now as it ever has in my lifetime, although it is not very busy these days... down to 8 trains a week in the winter (10 in the summer). There used to be that many trains each day when I was a kid!

Great shots of Gare du Palais, BTW. It is a really spectacular station inside... they did a beautiful job restoring it back in the 80s. (For a while, Quebec's station was relegated to the suburbs too)
This is true for Pacific Central, which is likely visited much more by tourists than residents, but Waterfront Station is metro-Vancouver's largest transit hub now. 3 skytrain lines, the sea bus, and the WCE commuter rail all meet at Waterfront. It is an amazing renaissance for a classic train station that at one point in the mid 20th century was going to be torn down.
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