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This imposing design, proposed for Montreal’s Windsor terminal in 1928, was – rather pompously – entitled “Heavenly City”. The 40-storey building would have housed 34 railway tracks. Then the\u00a0Depression struck and the city decided to make do with the old 1889 building, which is still standing today.<\/p>\n

source: Derek Boles collection via\u00a0Old Time Trains<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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