Recent content by SkylineHorizons

All correct, but it sure feels arbitrary. Especially when the thing looks almost exactly like the pole on top of Commerce Court West with the only differences in appearance being trivial in nature; It's placed in the exact center of the building rather than being offset and lines up with some...

This man gets it. MX hates their whistle blowers and will go out of their way to try to figure out who they are and while I'm retired from the place some of my old colleagues aren't.

Just got my hands on a video of Monday's derailment, check this out; Couldn't quite tell for sure because of the vid quality but it doesn't appear that any of the coaches derailed prior to when the rear truck of the last coach impacted the switch. But the loco could very well have already been...

Not sure that's entirely true as all the switches used to be thrown manually by large levers. There was a story one of the "older timers" told me long ago who used to work in the TTR in the 80's. Apparently they had very peculiar system in place that involved the use of bean or soup cans which...

To quote myself, I was wondering if any more recent projects in Toronto ever surpassing Scotia Plaza in this respect? I'm bumping this because I just came across this video about 1515 Alberni in Vancouver: The video was just released 4 weeks ago though apparently this excavation happened one...

Maybe one day... 😔 For now:

Mississauga the green closer

Love that park, it's such a great vantage point to take photos of the city from. Here's a bunch I took from earlier in the year that I didn't get around to posting

Thanks 👍 I was actually just over there earlier in the year myself-there's not too many complexes of it's size in Ontario anymore, always found such industrial facilities interesting; The remaining stack is still the tallest structure in Oakville for now, with stamping facility seen right behind it

Fixed that for you 😏

It was dropped in 2012 in what was just about the most anti-climatic explosive demolition ever for outside spectators as they couldn't see anything because of the early morning fog. Someone did take a video of the event from inside the grounds though which was actually somewhat dramatic...

Western Skylines

"Opening soon..." You sure you didn't take that picture 5 years ago?

Sunrise horizon.

The crane is there I swear!