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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

GO heats up switch maintenance in Toronto's bitter cold

At one time, on bitterly cold days it would have looked like there was a series of bonfires running down the tracks from Union Station. As recently as the 1980s, crews would douse the track switches with kerosene and set them ablaze, heating the metal to prevent the moving parts of the switches from seizing or…

2 comments:

Bicky said...

Ain't no heated shelters in Whitby... but many people crowd the top of the stairs. Maybe they all should do a penguin huddle.

George said...

Shelters are heated in Ajax. Not much but enough to keep you from getting like an extra in The Shining.