Restoration of 1919 engine shop begins

Work has begun to restore the Canadian Northern Railway Eastern Lines Locomotive Shop on Laird Drive. It will be a centrepiece of the new Leaside Village shopping complex when it opens next year. Tuesday there were as many as six large scissor lifts with masons and others checking and repairing brickwork on the 1919 engine repair building. Left, for the first time in a long time the wooden shutters are down on some of the graceful windows of the old shop. Right, a scissor lift and bricklayers at the northeast corner on Esandar Drive.
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