They may not be as well remembered as Veronica Foster or the Bomb Girls, but Edmonton’s streetcar conductorettes helped the war-effort and broke down barriers all the same.

It may be small, but 124th Street’s “stalwart brick castle” is one of the only reminders of Edmonton’s long-abandoned streetcar system.

Building a make-work road over the sandy hoodoos of Dawson Park sounded simple enough. Instead it resulted in Council in-fighting, five years of unending construction, and political suicide.

A beautifully functional piece of Retro-Futurism, Bay Station is a potent reminder to the lost optimism surrounding LRT expansion in the early ‘80s.