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     Through Mississauga, most of the Toronto Suburban Railway’s Guelph Division has disappeared. Residents live in homes unaware that 60 years ago, interurban trolleys passed through their living room at 60 km/h. Farmers still till soil, oblivious to the rail line that once angled across their fields.

     Just north of the TSR/CPR Cooksville station, the streets of the Mississauga Valley housing development are set into the landscape without regard for the old TSR main. Indeed, the TSR main was already "old" when the housing development was built. The tracks were ripped up in 1935 leaving Mother Nature to reclaim the land. By 1973, healthy trees had obscured much of the path of the interurban.

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