A Fathers Day Gift

Matthyro

Will always be re-membered
I was very lucky to get a 17 minute helicopter ride over Toronto to help celebrate Fathrs Day.
The fist photo shows the helicopter. The lady was another passenger. I was lucky enough to sit in the left seat next to the pilot so could see what he had to do to fly this machine. I also had a view almost straight down through the nose. We took off from Toronto Island Airport.
The second photo shows taken as we were climbing is of Toronto Union Station.
 

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Matthyro

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Next photo shows the tracks leading into the station from the east end.

The second photo shows Toronto east
 

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Matthyro

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Another east photo the we turned and the second photo shows us approaching the CN tower.
 

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Great shots, and what a great fathers day gift! From up there it looks like one heck of a layout. You just want to scoop it up and take it home with you. What a view!

Happy fathers day!

Freelancer

Oops! Sorry, I didn't realize you weren't finished. Keep em coming!
 

Matthyro

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The first photo shows some track running east to west in the middle of the city.
I took the second photo while we were turning so got it tilted but it shows the city well looking south.
 

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Matthyro

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The first photo is looking west. The second photo looks east.
 

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Matthyro

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The final photo shows us on our landing approach back to Toronto Island Airport.
 

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Matthyro

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Thanks freelancer. It was a great day to fly. I had hoped we could of gone a bit further north to get to see some CN yard tracks but that would have taken us into the commercial corridor for Toronto's Pearson Airport
 

ezdays

Out AZ way
Wow Robin, what a great way to celebrate Father's Day. Those are some tariffic shots, I'm sure you'd have spent the day up there if you could.:D
 

Tileguy

Member
King for a Day, very thoughtful gift.Looks like you had alot of fun.Nice photos Robin. Looks alot like a really well done Urban N scale layout that was built at about 30-32 inches off the floor in a stadium sized room ;)

I was hoping for a Time machine ride back to about 1912 . No such luck, maybe next year :D
I did get one railroady gift however.
TrainZ simulator.Of course it was late,but it will be here tomorow :)
 

Matthyro

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Yup Tileguy we would all hope to get a time machine ride.

The Trainz simulator is excellent and hope you enjoy it.

This photo taken by the helitours group was put up on their website.

It shows my son-in-law Buddy and myself just befor boarding.
 

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petepuma

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What a great gift! I would have loved that! (If I wasn't such a white knuckled flyer that is...):eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: You should have seen me flying to Atlanta last week...Xanax is my friend! :D :D
 

N Gauger

1:20.3 Train Addict
petepuma said:
What a great gift! I would have loved that! (If I wasn't such a white knuckled flyer that is...):eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: You should have seen me flying to Atlanta last week...Xanax is my friend! :D :D
:D :D :D :D You & me Both!! Went up once ina plane.... got the T-Shirt..... not going up again, if I can help it!! :D :D :D

Great Pics Robin!! What a cool Railfanning trip too!! :) :) :)
 

Matthyro

Will always be re-membered
Dick. That is Lake Ontario you see in the photos. For those who haven't tried it yet, I found the ride very smooth and comfortable. At times you can look straight down so I imagine that wouldn't suite everyone.
 

ezdays

Out AZ way
Matthyro said:
Dick. That is Lake Ontario you see in the photos. For those who haven't tried it yet, I found the ride very smooth and comfortable. At times you can look straight down so I imagine that wouldn't suite everyone.
I used to have a severe case of acrophobia years ago, but it never stopped me from going on a plane, even heliocopters and I never could figure out why not. I would imagin that even now that I'm over it, looking straight down would be a bit unnearving and hard to take.:eek::eek:
 
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