Continuing a series of caches celebrating everything to do with railways.
The History of the Station:
Cedarvale station (formerly known as Eglinton West until February 8th, 2026 with the opening of Line 5/the Eglinton Crosstown) originally opened on January 28th, 1978 as part of the Spadina line (Now the Yonge-University-Spadina Line, or Line 1) Designed by Arthur Erickson and Clifford & Lawrie in a striking modernist (some may argue it shares brutalist tendencies) design, this station has been an integral interchange between subway riders on the Spadina line, bus riders along the former 32 Eglinton bus and the myriad of other buses that utilize this station, and motorists driving onto or off the Allen Road Expressway which hems the station on both sides with generous rampways.
Eglinton West had been planned to be an interchange station as part of an earlier proposed subway line named the Eglinton West line. This was one of the three proposed subway lines in the Network 2011 plan created in 1985 by the Toronto Transit Commission. Construction started in 1994 but was halted a year later when the project was cancelled after the election of the Progressive Conservative government led by Mike Harris, and the excavation that had started for the lower station (dubbed "Allen") was backfilled.
The station features a pair of giant, opposing, 2-storey enamel murals by Gerald Zeldin, together entitled Summertime Streetcar.
In 2011, construction began once again at this station for a new transit line, the Eglinton Crosstown. In 2026, after 15 years of construction, the station became an interchange between Line 1 and the Eglinton Crosstown, and was renamed to Cedarvale station. 3 additional entrances were constructed which save riders (and drivers) the headache of crossing the Allen Road ramp to access Cedarvale station, and opened in November 2025, several weeks in advance of the Eglinton Crosstown finishing construction.
About SideTracked Caches
This cache belongs to the SideTracked series. It is not designed to take you to a magical place with a breath taking view. It's a distraction for the weary traveller, but anyone else can go and find it too. More Information can be found at the SideTracked Website
Please Bring your own Pen. The cache itself is a typical urban hide, and unorthodox for a DreamMachine cache.
Congratulations to Ninja Fairies for the quick FTF!