Yard art - CPR Outremont

After I photographed a Bixi station yesterday, I continued walking up Hutchison Street until I hit the CPR tracks north of Van Horne Avenue. I slipped through an opening in the fence - I trespassed, in other words - and spent time walking through the eastern edge of the Outremont train yard.

The area used to be a marshalling yard for CPR trains but most of the land has been sold to the University of Montreal. Now trains only pass through going to and from other places.

The buildings that ring the yard provide prime surfaces for graffiti artists. There's also plenty of discarded metal and dug up ashphalt scattered throughout the yard. Tall grass has sprung up in several places, evidence of nature taking over where humans have departed.