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Glen Yards
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This location has been labeled as Demolished, and therefore can be viewed by anyone.
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Large 17 Hectares place with railroad switching yards And old train station. The yards contain a total of 76 tracks , almost all of them are abandonned.
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Type: Outdoors
Status: Demolished
Accessibility: Easy
Recommendation: not very exciting
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Lots of abandonned Tracks and loading docks
Old foundations in the Woody part
Maintenance tools
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The coming of the railway in the late 1880s brought major changes to the area. Windsor Station was built downtown in 1889. Canadian Pacific had started in the years prior to acquire land for the tracks to the terminal and a portion of the Decarie farmland was expropriated in 1888. Both the Decaries and the neighbouring Prud'homme family fought in court to save their orchards. The tracks did go through and Westmount Station was relocated in 1907 to the foot of Victoria.
Only a portion of farm land was used for the tracks at the time, but eventually progress won out, and the Decaries negotiated a larger sale that included their beautiful ancestral home. That sale provided the CPR with the land they needed to complete their rail yards and the house was demolished in 1912 to make way for the roundhouse. The yards contained a total of 76 tracks, a turntable and a variety of shops.
During its peak years, the Glen Yards received and dispatched as many as 86 passenger trains a day. However, passenger-train travel has declined substantially in recent years, and the tracks now accommodate only commuter trains. No longer requiring the space, CP demolished all the shop buildings and abandoned much of the yards.
Few traces remain of the area's early beginnings. Except for the streets named after the first settlers, all notion of its rural past has been lost. Yet, passing through the Vendome metro station, observant travelers might notice a plaque there in honour of the Decarie family.
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Mcgill Reporter
The westmount Examiner
The Gazette
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Cp Rail sold the space to Qc Crown corporation for 1.2 Billion to use it to build the new Super-hospital, is it worth it ?
Update: the CUSM, the university hospital of McGill will be built there.
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The moderator rating is a neutral rating of the content quality, photography, and coolness of this location.
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7 / 10 |
| Coolness |
6 / 10 |
| Content Quality |
6 / 10 |
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This location's validation is current. It was last validated by
Emperor Wang on 6/20/2009 3:45 AM.
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on Jun 20 09 at 3:45, Emperor Wang validated this location
on Jun 20 09 at 3:44, Emperor Wang changed the following: Notes for Mods, Status
on Apr 20 06 at 19:52, Agent Skelly validated this location
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on May 14 05 at 23:03, The Great Bear updated basic gallery info
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