Original C-Train Line Construction Photos
 

I've been crawling through the Glenbow and CPL archives all morning trying to find photos from spots along the original C-Train line pre-construction and during construction, and I've come up pretty much empty. Specifically, I'm looking for photos of 7th avenue, downtown west, and into the Sunnyside/north line area before construction and while it was being built. Does anyone have photos like these, or know where I could find them?

(And if this is more appropriate for the photos/videos section, my bad. Just thought it was more relevant here, perhaps.)

Dang, I thought I would come in here and see a bunch of cool LRT construction photos.

My bad. (Or strategy?)

Can a mod please update the thread title to add "Request"?

Have you tried here?
http://www.albertaonrecord.ca/search?query=lrt&repos=
Clicking on photos will give you a bit more information, perhaps more spots to look...

Unfortunately, looks like this is the only one of the NW line:

http://i.imgur.com/HvCXJfb.jpg

That's a great resource though. I could get lost for hours in searching it.

those LRT editorial cartoons are fantastic haha

reminds me of the bike lane discussion these days

There's a photo around, I think I saw it on Flickr, of the line on 7th Ave under construction by the library. Can't find it now though...

^ That would be super cool to find. I'll do some digging.

Ideally, I'm looking for photos along 9th street SW, where the street and LRT do a bit of a wiggle because they were built around pre-existing buildings. I'd love to see what it looked like before (I know – just straight, but I haven't seen it that way).

Not at ground level, but here is an aerial view, if that is any help. from 1949.
http://contentdm.ucalgary.ca/cgi-bin/get...DMY=0&DMTEXT=&REC=1&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0
http://contentdm.ucalgary.ca/cdm4/item_v...=&DMTHUMB=1&REC=1&DMROTATE=0&x=514&y=535

It's crazy how quickly downtown went from low to high density...

Also interesting how the low rise residential/medium rise downtown switched so that the old downtown/Stephen Ave is now the lower rise portion, with the sfh being the high rises.

Hey, that's a pretty cool image.

http://i.imgur.com/TIZO5DP.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/z3SwNrh.jpg

Here are some photos from ~1982 showing areas shortly before NW and NE lines:

http://i.imgur.com/0QvTiMr.jpg
Expanded/full size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/photosbybobv/8596251236/

http://i.imgur.com/EFXcAhWh.jpg
Expanded/full size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/photosbybobv/8595145873/

http://i.imgur.com/eRjNBWKl.png
Expanded/full size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/photosbybobv/8595147881/

Photo credit photos by Bob V on Flickr

Here's a 1980 Construction photo - doesn't show much of the system though..... Wonder if they still think it's a mistake.


http://i58.tinypic.com/302tlyd.png

Ha ha! The "your neighbourhood could be next sign" . .. people these days are thinking "we could only be so lucky!"

Also made me think of the bike lanes...

Those aerials show how much our pathway system has changed. The seventies were red shale everything!

This is totally what we'll be laughing about in 10 years

Also a classic case of "Haters gonna hate". No matter what someone does in this life there will always been stupid, jealous and backwards trolls LITERALLY sitting on the sidelines waiting for you to fail. These people are called losers and pay them no mind...