Facetiousness aside, I was siding with Marc and A. H., as to the location.
Cote St. Luc and Westminster with an elderly-style Bell Telephone cable supported in hand-cut and bent support rings transversing the photo.
It looks like the CPR Right of Way from Ballantyne Tower by the Wentworth Golf Course to St. Luc Jct. at Rosedale crossing left to right in the background, and the Westminster level crossing would be to the left out-of-frame.
When they built the underpass on WM., a temporary level crossing was constructed on Wolseley to handle traffic.
The 101 turned back just East of Smart Ave.
The underpass had to be offset to the West as the houses above on the North and East side had just been built and had to have road access.
We watched Miron et Freres do the excavation as CPR Transfers to Angus Shops passed by, some handling steam engines for scrap, spaced in the train.
The last TRAINS to use steam locomotives out of St. Luc operated in late June 1960. We used to race down to the tracks on our bikes after school to watch the Transfers parade by after 1600.
Then they were GONE! Just like that!
Others were used as steam heaters for passenger cars at the Glen/Westmount in the fall of 1960 as the boiler plant there was upgraded, but did not handle trains, running back and for to St. Luc for boiler washes and maintenance.
The last steam locomotive I saw operating was in February 1961, running alone, towards Montreal West and Westmount, it passing over the crossing at West Broadway.
Galardo's of the good french fries would be to the left on the N.W. corner.
The City Hall would have been on the S.W. corner, in later years all braced up as ready to fall down, it was said.
One of the farms still fronting on Cote St. Luc visible to the Right/East in the old view.
The gaggle of apartments on the North side of CSL thru to Ashdale being built 1962 and on.
Some of those apartments just West of Ashdale on CSL were connected underground by tunnels years ago.
Adalbert area was built up c. 1959, inside the CPR loop doubling around towards North and South Junctions and on to LaSalle and Farnham.
I understand the CPR loop was constructed in 1949/50 concomitant with the construction of the St. Luc hump yard at the top of Westminster.
The New Hump yard took over for Yards at Sortin and Outremont, and at Hochelaga below Angus Shops.
Heavy steam and Diesel locomotives were needed for the steep climb out of Place Viger and Hochelaga up to Angus Shops above Sherbrooke and thru to Hampstead Tower and St. Luc.
In the Fifties and Sixties Sortin Yard across from the Wentworth Golf Course was used to store rolling stock pending repairs at Angus Shops or destined to be scrapped.
In the Sixties, when 'The Dominion' passenger train was removed, and the CPR Toronto Trains, passenger rolling stock was sent to Sortin and forwarded on freights to a siding down near Farnham where they were burned, like streetcars at Youville, for the scrap metal.
We drove down there one day, and the cars had been burnt, all grey and twisted and rusty, swaybacked from the heat. A locomotive tender was there for water.
Ugly to see, like scrapping steam locomotives and canallers.
I checked on Google and there is a view of a black SUV turning on to CSL just West of where Galardo's once was.
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I'm guessing Cote St. Luc Road.
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ReplyDeleteLooks like the corner of Westminster and Cote St. Luc Road. Wow!
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Could be anywhere. Much too vague, sorry.
ReplyDeleteFacetiousness aside, I was siding with Marc and A. H., as to the location.
ReplyDeleteCote St. Luc and Westminster with an elderly-style Bell Telephone cable supported in hand-cut and bent support rings transversing the photo.
It looks like the CPR Right of Way from Ballantyne Tower by the Wentworth Golf Course to St. Luc Jct. at Rosedale crossing left to right in the background, and the Westminster level crossing would be to the left out-of-frame.
When they built the underpass on WM., a temporary level crossing was constructed on Wolseley to handle traffic.
The 101 turned back just East of Smart Ave.
The underpass had to be offset to the West as the houses above on the North and East side had just been built and had to have road access.
We watched Miron et Freres do the excavation as CPR Transfers to Angus Shops passed by, some handling steam engines for scrap, spaced in the train.
The last TRAINS to use steam locomotives out of St. Luc operated in late June 1960. We used to race down to the tracks on our bikes after school to watch the Transfers parade by after 1600.
Then they were GONE! Just like that!
Others were used as steam heaters for passenger cars at the Glen/Westmount in the fall of 1960 as the boiler plant there was upgraded, but did not handle trains, running back and for to St. Luc for boiler washes and maintenance.
The last steam locomotive I saw operating was in February 1961, running alone, towards Montreal West and Westmount, it passing over the crossing at West Broadway.
Galardo's of the good french fries would be to the left on the N.W. corner.
The City Hall would have been on the S.W. corner, in later years all braced up as ready to fall down, it was said.
One of the farms still fronting on Cote St. Luc visible to the Right/East in the old view.
The gaggle of apartments on the North side of CSL thru to Ashdale being built 1962 and on.
Some of those apartments just West of Ashdale on CSL were connected underground by tunnels years ago.
Adalbert area was built up c. 1959, inside the CPR loop doubling around towards North and South Junctions and on to LaSalle and Farnham.
I understand the CPR loop was constructed in 1949/50 concomitant with the construction of the St. Luc hump yard at the top of Westminster.
The New Hump yard took over for Yards at Sortin and Outremont, and at Hochelaga below Angus Shops.
Heavy steam and Diesel locomotives were needed for the steep climb out of Place Viger and Hochelaga up to Angus Shops above Sherbrooke and thru to Hampstead Tower and St. Luc.
In the Fifties and Sixties Sortin Yard across from the Wentworth Golf Course was used to store rolling stock pending repairs at Angus Shops or destined to be scrapped.
In the Sixties, when 'The Dominion' passenger train was removed, and the CPR Toronto Trains, passenger rolling stock was sent to Sortin and forwarded on freights to a siding down near Farnham where they were burned, like streetcars at Youville, for the scrap metal.
We drove down there one day, and the cars had been burnt, all grey and twisted and rusty, swaybacked from the heat. A locomotive tender was there for water.
Ugly to see, like scrapping steam locomotives and canallers.
I checked on Google and there is a view of a black SUV turning on to CSL just West of where Galardo's once was.
Thank You.
Great work, MP&I!
ReplyDeleteLike they say: you hadda BE there!