In 1910 the Pennsylvania Railroad was at the height of its power and was the world's largest privately-owned transportation company. Penn Station's Charles McKim-designed Beaux-Arts architecture was a significant influence on Toronto Union Station, completed ten years later. 3/3

Penn Station was arguably the most magnificent railway station ever built. With its Hudson and East River tunnels, it cost $160 million. If a similar project to Penn Station were built in Manhattan today, it would likely cost over $10 billion. 2/3

Despite early estimates that there were as many as ten dead, there were only two fatalities, both employees of the Pullman Company. The passenger train was climbing the grade east of York station and not going fast at the time, or the wreck could have been much worse. 2/2

Under pressure from all three levels of government, the GTR relented, although it would continue to create obstacles to CVR expansion. The Canadian Pacific Railway acquired the CVR in 1884, gaining immediate direct access to downtown Toronto and confirming the GTR's worst case scenario. 3/3

Credit Valley passenger trains had already begun using the Grand Trunk's Toronto Union Station on May 17, 1880. These agreements were a major concession by the Grand Trunk, which did all it could to block the CVR from entering downtown Toronto. 2/3

The truck driver was uninjured, having left the cab of the truck before the collision. One of the VIA engineers and a number of passengers were taken to hospital, fortunately with only minor injuries.

There were nine injuries on the VIA train. Rail traffic was disrupted for several days while the wreck was cleared and the track repaired; VIA passengers had to be bussed between Toronto and Kingston. 3/3

The VIA crew had been warned by the CN crew and had managed to slow the passenger train considerably, reducing the force of impact. Two locomotives and 11 cars of the freight train derailed, as did the VIA locomotive and all six passenger cars. 2/3

The Leslie Barns were built specifically to accommodate the TTC's new Flexity Outlook low floor streetcars. The 280,000 sq. ft. (26,000 m²) carhouse can hold thirty streetcars indoors with 100 more stored on outdoor tracks. The overall complex occupies 4.33 acres (1.75 ha). 2/2

In the 1860s Toronto was the largest exporter of grain to the United States, though most of it also originated in the U.S. midwest. Several huge elevators dominated the waterfront. Two of the largest were owned by the Northern and the Grand Trunk Railways—both gone by 1908. 3/3

A second elevator was soon built alongside the first. In 1961, the two elevators were acquired by Maple Leaf Mills Limited. Both structures would ultimately be demolished in 1982-83 as part of the $250 million Harbourfront redevelopment project. 2/3

Its first offices were at Place D'Armes, then Victoria Square and then Windsor Station in 1889, where they remained for over a century. CP sold Windsor Station in 2009. In 2013 it moved its head office out of downtown Calgary to its Ogden yard in the city’s southeast. 3/3

It was expected that 1,450 CP jobs would disappear across Canada as a result of the changes, including 640 jobs in Toronto. Canadian Pacific's corporate headquarters had been located in Montreal since the company's incorporation in 1881. 2/3