"WILL VISIT JAIL FARMS IN SEARCH OF POINTERS," Toronto Star. August 12, 1912. Page 2.
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Officials to Get Ideas in the StatesMen Set Free Have to Walk Home.
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The rails and ties for the new C. N. R. switch into the Industrial Farm on Yonge street are on the ground. The switch will be laid shortly, and will facilitate the receipt of lumber for improvements to the barns and buildings at the farm.
Property Commissioner Chisholm has asked Superintendent Findlay to set a date for a trip through several American cities to inspect jail farms. Plans will then be prepared for the first unit of the new dormitory buildings. It is expected that the foundations of the new structure will be excavated this winter by prison labor.
Weekly batches of prisoners continue to be sent to the farm via the Rosedale Station of the C. N. R. They are carried directly to the farm where they are taken in charge. When discharged they must find their own way back to the city.
"Do they have to walk?" the commissioner was asked.
"I am afraid they do if they haven't the money to purchase a ticket," was his reply.
What a relief it was to finally reach Delhi after about two days of journey!
First the Rajdhani, we were supposed to travel in, got cancelled. Then, we booked tatkal tickets on another train, but it got delayed for 12 hours. When we reached Cuttack station to board that train, we found out the train hadn't even started from Puri, its destination station. We had to wait for another 4 hours before we could actually board the train and start our journey. And after spending about 36 hours on the train, we reached our destination.
But our journey didn't end there, as we had to travel to my sister's house in Panipat. After spending 3 more hours on the bus, we finally reached the warmth of home.
“If you think this is the end of steel at Churchill or something, you’re wrong. It’s a blizzard scene from North Dakota. The train shown here was delayed by huge snowdrifts which had to be cleared away.
- from the Toronto Star, October 25, 1932. Page 21.
the appearance of trains and train stations in media is being used to show the start, the end and the journey simultaneously because characters have been shown to start off in trains (beginning), travel in trains (growth) and then getting off the train at their stops (grown up/matured). Due to the number of people who uses trains to commute, in this essay I will-