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Railway Lands is an area in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Originally a large railway switching yard near the Toronto waterfront , including the CNR Spadina Roundhouse and the CPR John Roundhouse , it has since been redeveloped and today is home to mostly mixed-used development, including the CN Tower and Rogers Centre .
The Ontario Northland Railway (reporting mark ONT) is a Canadian railway operated by the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission, a provincial Crown agency of the government of Ontario. Originally built to develop the Lake Timiskaming and Lake Nipissing areas, the railway soon became a major factor in the economic growth of the province.
Pages in category "Rail yards in Ontario" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Railway Lands; V. CPKC Vaughan Intermodal; W. Whitby Rail ...
Ottawa Central Railway: Ontario and Ottawa Railway: CNor: 1910 1914 Canadian Northern Railway: Ontario Pacific Railway: NYC: 1882 1897 Ottawa and New York Railway: Ontario and Quebec Railway: CP: 1871 1998 St. Lawrence and Hudson Railway: Ontario and Rainy River Railway: CNor: 1886 1900 Canadian Northern Railway: Ontario, Simcoe and Huron ...
The Ashbridge streetcar line was an early public transit service in the Port Lands. It opened on November 5, 1917 to serve workers employed at munitions factories in the Port Lands during World War I. The City of Toronto constructed and owned the line but had the Toronto Railway Company (TRC) operate it. [5]: 30 [6]
Roundhouse Park is a 17-acre (6.9 ha) park in the downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.It is in the former Railway Lands.It features the John Street Roundhouse, a preserved locomotive roundhouse that houses the Toronto Railway Museum, Steam Whistle Brewing, and the Rec Room restaurant and entertainment complex.
The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, or OA&PS, is a historic railway that operated in central and eastern Ontario, Canada, from 1897 to 1959.It was for a time the busiest railway route in Canada, [1] carrying both timber and wood products from today's Algonquin Provincial Park areas, as well as up to 40% of the grain traffic from the Canadian west from Depot Harbour at Parry Sound ...
The Ontario and Quebec Railway (O&Q) was a railway located in southern and eastern Ontario, Canada. [1] It was initially chartered in March 1881 by managers of the Canadian Pacific Railway to run between Toronto and Perth, where it would connect, via a short branch line, to the CPR-controlled Brockville and Ottawa Railway. Construction began in ...