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Last train

Last train

Date1/14/1990
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Original Toronto Star caption: Last train: One of the last of cancelled VIA trains is shown leaving Union Station early this year. A total of 2;700 VIA workers were Idled because of the cutbacks.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0012672F
A close call. Eastbound GO train passengers were shaken last night when the engine of their train sideswiped one of eight derailed freight cars near W(...)
A close call. Eastbound GO train passengers were shaken last night when the engine of their train sideswiped one of eight derailed freight cars near W(...)
1/9/1979
Man hit by train. A 51-year-old man was struck by a slow-moving freight train as he tried to cross the tracks at Osler St., north of Dupont St., last (...)
Man hit by train. A 51-year-old man was struck by a slow-moving freight train as he tried to cross the tracks at Osler St., north of Dupont St., last (...)
8/26/1991
Last-second leap as a freight train roars down is the object of boys aged 10 to 15 who play a deadly game of chicken on a trestle 25 feet above a rese(...)
Last-second leap as a freight train roars down is the object of boys aged 10 to 15 who play a deadly game of chicken on a trestle 25 feet above a rese(...)
7/31/1972
Last-second leap as a freight train roars down is the object of boys aged 10 to 15 who play a deadly game of chicken on a railway trestle north of Mal(...)
Last-second leap as a freight train roars down is the object of boys aged 10 to 15 who play a deadly game of chicken on a railway trestle north of Mal(...)
7/31/1972
Three CNR train cars were derailed last night in Weston and 15 persons were injured - one when her abdomen was impaled on a fence post. The cars, on a(...)
Three CNR train cars were derailed last night in Weston and 15 persons were injured - one when her abdomen was impaled on a fence post. The cars, on a(...)
1/7/1970
CNR freight train carrying gravel went off the tracks just north of Highway 11 near Brandford during a heavy thunderstorm that lasted two hours last n(...)
CNR freight train carrying gravel went off the tracks just north of Highway 11 near Brandford during a heavy thunderstorm that lasted two hours last n(...)
5/22/1975
No contest: There's usually not much left when a moving train hits a car or truck, as the driver of this wreck discovered last year when he left it stalled on a Scarborough railway line
No contest: There's usually not much left when a moving train hits a car or truck, as the driver of this wreck discovered last year when he left it stalled on a Scarborough railway line
7/19/1988
Keeping watch: A security guard joins passengers on the Oakville-to-Toronto GO train last night after a sex assault on a train Tuesday
Keeping watch: A security guard joins passengers on the Oakville-to-Toronto GO train last night after a sex assault on a train Tuesday
10/24/1991
Two CN trains collided in York borough today, injuring the engineer of one train and derailing six cars of another
Two CN trains collided in York borough today, injuring the engineer of one train and derailing six cars of another
7/15/1975
Death scene: The broom and safety hat of the railway worker killed by a train this morning lie in the snow 150 feet from where the train came to a stop
Death scene: The broom and safety hat of the railway worker killed by a train this morning lie in the snow 150 feet from where the train came to a stop
1/20/1982
Train derails in west end. CP Rail workers police wait for a crane to lift a boxcar, part of a freight train that derailed after being sideswiped by a(...)
Train derails in west end. CP Rail workers police wait for a crane to lift a boxcar, part of a freight train that derailed after being sideswiped by a(...)
5/10/1990
Chopped Enough? The bitter coast-to-coast protests following passenger-train cuts last year make Via Rail an unlikely target
Chopped Enough? The bitter coast-to-coast protests following passenger-train cuts last year make Via Rail an unlikely target
1/18/1990