Today,
Hyde Park Road is a busy four lane thoroughfare in the northwest
quadrant of London, Ontario. It is lined with strip malls, restaurants,
and auto repair shops - establishments shared by every modern city. A
few years prior to the date of today's photo, however, it was an
entirely different story. Hyde Park Road was then a two lane road
passing through a bucolic setting with cornfields on one side and a
church and several private dwellings on the other. A prominent pinch
point occurred where the road squeezed under the tracks of CP's Windsor
Subdivision. As the city grew, the decision was eventually made to
replace this irritant with a new railway overpass spanning four lanes of
traffic. During construction, the rail line was rerouted past the new
structure by way of a shoo fly. In our photo, a westbound freight is
negotiating this temporary trestle.
Welcome, follow along with George Dutka in his journal which documents the additions and future thoughts for the HO scale White River Division model railroad and to his continuing historical New England railroad research. The White River Division is now in its 17th modeler's season. The "modeler's season" runs from November to April each year. Inspiration comes from the Boston and Maine, Rutland and Central Vermont Railway during the 1950's with additional posts by Don Janes and Peter Mumby.
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