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Originally Posted by Dwils01
Ramako bet me to it but I'll add a little bit to it.
That's Roundhouse Park, there was a big rail yard before this area was developed and the only thing that remained is the roundhouse.
Those small station building were probably built when they created the park.
There is a miniature railway that circles the park for kids and their parents to ride which is why there is railway crossings in the park.
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Just to add to what you wrote, the old railway buildings and railway cars at the bottom are from various parts of Toronto and gathered together (relocated) to Roundhouse Park (the roundhouse was always located in Southcore) by the Toronto Railway Museum society. That ticket booth at the bottom there is over a hundred years old and was moved from the Junction or thereabouts in order to protect it from demolition. This will all be part of the future Toronto railway museum that's under construction along with the new transmission station. The Roundhouse had a historic role in building our country, when Toronto was the Western terminus of the national railway, as many of the trains sending immigrants and soldiers to the West used this Roundhouse to service and reroute the railcars.
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