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Explore our gallery to see photos of Toronto's railway workers and learn more about their experiences through their own words.
Landscape vintage photograph shows approximately 50 men posing in front of and in a large steam locomotive. The number “3002” is visible on the locomotive and “Canadian Pacific” on the tender. Illegible script is visible in the bottom of the photograph.
Black and white vintage advertisement with drawing on top half of image and advertisement copy on bottom half. The image is a sketch of a railway worker lubricating the wheel of a large locomotive.
Black and white cityscape vintage photograph showing a large bridge over railway tracks.
Black and white vintage aerial photograph. The centre of the photograph shows many railway tracks. The right bottom corner shows a baseball stadium. The left side of the photograph shows many buildings.
Black and white vintage aerial photograph showing a roundhouse building and railway tracks. There is a highway in the background and two rectangular buildings in the foreground.
Modern colour aerial photograph showing a roundhouse building and railway tracks. There is a highway at the top of the photo and many rail cars and small buildings around the roundhouse. There is a park to the left of the roundhouse.
Black and white vintage photograph showing railway tracks. There is a steam locomotive on the left side with steam billowing upwards. The background is obscured by fog.
Black and white architectural drawing of railway facilities. There is a roundhouse in the bottom left corner and several railway tracks and buildings. A box labeled “Union Station” is drawn in the upper right corner.
Colour painting of the cityscape shows many small buildings in the foreground. There is a roundhouse and railway tracks in the centre of the painting. The background shows the cityscape with taller skyscrapers including the Royal York Hotel.
Black and white archival photograph of a smiling man stands wearing a hard hat and overalls in front of a steam locomotive, which is only partially visible, on the left side.
Black and white archival photograph of a smiling man in a hard hat standing on the front of a large steam locomotive. The locomotive is emerging from a roundhouse.
Black and white archival photograph of two men and two women stand in front of a large machine. The woman in the foreground is looking at the camera and holding a broom handle. The men and woman in the background are laughing and one is handing a piece of paper to the other. There is faded printing at the bottom left corner which reads “AS AN APPRENTICE/JOHN STREET 1941/MOTHER & DAUGHTER/VICTORY SAVINGS DRIVE”.
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