Caption: What is this and where? this is the Waterloo Central Railway, operating a steam special on Remembrance day to transport Veterans to a ceremony in downtown Waterloo. One time permission was granted for this move, the train dodging oodles of crews busily finishing the right of way work on the Waterloo "ION" LRT. This track was and still is the GEXR Waterloo spur, but it's quickly taking shape as something completely different. In the background, the ION maintenance facility, soon to be filled with more tracks and blue Bombardier Flexity trainsets, you'll hardly recognize this place come the Spring.. it's already quite different than what it once was.



Interestingly enough, just around the curve there was the site of the most notorious train wreck on this line on September 7 1902. (Source: Rambles of the Dutch Mail, George Roth, August 2011)