02-01-2018, 03:41 PM
(02-01-2018, 01:48 PM)KevinT Wrote: Wow, Ontario St used to be called Foundry, and the train track down Charles went all the way to it.
There's a 1919 aerial photo series with a few views of the area, including this and this. You could be forgiven for not realizing Charles Street is a street.
Quote: I had vague childhood memories of seeing old track on Charles by the Tannery building, but never could figure out how it would have connected to the track that used to run through Victoria park. I see now that it didn't! Thanks!
Both railways ran along the edge of Victoria Park, and crossed there — CN (Grand Trunk) which is the remaining one, and CP (Preston & Berlin / Grand River Railway / IHT) which had the tighter curve over to their freight yard on Linden (where the newish townhouses are) and (briefly) ran on Wilmot/Victoria itself to serve Kaufman Rubber. If you look at property boundaries in the city or region GIS, the western edges of Victoria Park are ‘inexplicably’ made of separate narrow curved parcels.