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Lone Red Cap

Black and white archival photograph of a man in railway uniform pulling an empty baggage cart in front of Toronto’s Union Station. He is walking away from the camera.

Source: Toronto Star Archives, TSPA_0015967F

Date: August 1966

On August 26, 1966, a national rail strike shut down train services across the country. Red caps at Union Station had little work to do without any passenger trains coming into the station.