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CP
van 434634 trails a westbound freight across a temporary structure at
Hyde Park Road in London, Ontario. It is a fine day in October of 1984,
and the conductor is surveying the construction activity from his
customary perch in the cupola.
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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.
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