| Mimico | Lakeshore
(CNR Oakville) | Train | 6.7 | (43334) |
Original telegraph call MC" later moved to MIMICO YARD office when the new GTR Mimico yard opened in 1906 and from then on the station was known as MY until the Operator-switchtenders were moved to MIMICO EAST ca1952 and took they telegraph call to that locaton
City of Etobicoke was interested in trying to preserve the single-storey frame CN Mimico station under the provincial heritage act March 1993
The area around the creek mouth was called "Omimeca" meaning "The resting place of the wild pigeons". and from the First Nations were name developed or "Home of the passenger pigeon"
1965-7 GO Transit Yard and Shop named after the nearby Willowbrook Road.
Mimico Yard Office MC at 6th Street in 1906
A suburban station in 1899, probably closed with the construction of MIMICO YARD in 1906.
CNR Mimco Yard Offce MC Yard office at 18th Street later Kipling Avenue
Canpa Jct 8.44 MJ - New CNR tower opened May 1st 1952 and Junction with CP RAIL Obico Sub
Canpa Jct 8.5 MJ Old CPR tower closed May 1st 1952 and demolished later in 1952
old GTR/CNR Mimico stn mileage 6.8 used until 1968 for GO passengers until GO commuter station completed at mileage 6.7
GTR/CNR stn written up in local Etobicoke Guardian (Nov 2002) where sudden interest to save and designate but stn structurally beyond saving (stn has personal sentiment - my uncle once was here and he often complained that all he had to write train orders by was a 15 watt bulb)
See my Bay Window images of the Mimcio Yard Office |
