Outer Station hosts the LRC demo train

When VIA launched its Light Rapid Comfortable (LRC) train in August 1981, a demonstrator set made the rounds of Corridor cities. On August 12-13, the set visited Kingston's Outer Station. While up to this point I was more interested in the train itself, in looking at these pictures again, I'm drawn to the context. My Dad hikes over for a head-end view (top photo). Check out the OCS boxcar parked at the piggyback ramp, with power pole and Montreal Street houses, beyond. All of which I plan to model. Here's a general view of the now-quiet station and yard area (below):

Structures for my Hanley Spur Layout

As I complete structures for my HO scale Hanley Spur home layout, I'll post images here, along with links to the construction posts for each one!

So far, I have the Grand Trunk/CN Outer Station:

Added the breezeway connecting the original 1856 limestone station to the 1895 addition:

Millard & Lumb, at Wellington Street at Place d'Armes:

Revitalized signage:

Sowards' coal-unloading trestle:

 Anglin's coal, oil and lumber business at Bay & Wellington Streets and around Kingston:

The limestone Imperial Oil warehouse at North Street:

Gus' Railway Restaurant:

The GTR/CNR freight shed:

Quattrocchi's Specialty Foods: 

Structure flats - MacCosham Movers at left, Weston's Bakeries at right:

 Weston's Bakeries:

The River Street bridge: 

A typical Swamp Ward house (pre-layout) 

The Bailey Broom Factory:

The Davis Drydock: 

Wellington Street at Bay St - The Bajus Brewery:

Cataraqui Street - the National Grocers warehouse:

 Next-door neighbour - the Bailey broom factory:

Across the tracks on Cataraqui Street - reworked Woolen Mill structural flat:

C.E. Macpherson metal works: 

CN Express freight shed at the Outer Station:

Frontenac Floor & Wall Tile Co. Ltd. structural flat:

River Street fuel truck-loading rack:

Another typical Swamp Ward house:

The City (Steam) Laundry at 294 Wellington Street:

A Montreal Street garage - Provincial Tire: 

The Kingston Whig-Standard newsprint warehouse on Rideau Street just south of Cataraqui St: 

Ramshackle remnants - CN toolsheds at the top of the Hanley Spur just east of the Outer Station:

Dyeco at River and Orchard Streets. A little-known dye and chemical industry that's still operating!

A much-reduced footprint (bootprint?) for the Davis Tannery:

And a short time later, a re-do of the foreground tannery building

A deconstructed ex-industry, one of Kingston's modern-day brownfield sites:

K-D Manufacuring on Montreal Street:.

The so-called Commandant's House, overlooking the Inner Harbour:

The S. Anglin Co. office building - Bay and Wellington Streets.

Rideau Street School/King's Town School. This will probably end up as its circa 1970 Warren plumbing supply, as it was during my modelled era.

Structural flat representing Presland Iron and Steel, originally Reliance Moulding.