Railway diagonals
Former and current rail corridors run at angles to the street grid, a legacy of the lines that made St. Thomas an important junction in the nineteenth century.
Minimalist map poster · Canada
42.7736° N / 81.1804° W
A southwestern Ontario railway town, its grid crossed by old rail lines and cut by the valley of Kettle Creek





One city, five moods
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The map
St. Thomas sits in Elgin County, a short drive north of Lake Erie and south of London, Ontario. From above, its core is a straightforward North American grid, with Talbot Street running through as the historic main street. What breaks the order is Kettle Creek, whose wooded valley winds along the western side of the city and forces bridges and bends into the otherwise regular blocks.
The city calls itself the Railway Capital of Canada, and the map explains why: several railway lines once converged here, and their rights of way still slice diagonally through the streets. St. Thomas is also remembered as the place where Jumbo, the famous circus elephant, was killed by a train in 1885, an event marked by a life-size statue at the edge of town.
A St. Thomas map poster shows a town built around movement: straight streets for settlement, long diagonals for trains, and a creek valley that nobody could quite straighten. In black and white the old railway corridors become the most expressive lines on the sheet, cutting confidently across the grid as they must have once cut across the farmland around it.
Former and current rail corridors run at angles to the street grid, a legacy of the lines that made St. Thomas an important junction in the nineteenth century.
The creek's winding, wooded valley forms a soft green edge to the city, interrupting the grid and giving the western side of the map its shape.
The historic main street runs through the centre and links the downtown blocks, an easy line for anyone who knows the town to find at once.
Make it yours
Add a date, a name or a line of your own, switch style, size or orientation.
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Why St. Thomas
For railway enthusiasts, people who grew up in Elgin County or anyone with a soft spot for Jumbo, St. Thomas makes a thoughtful wall piece. The mix of grid and diagonal lines reads well in any room.
Personalise the title, subtitle and coordinates, then choose from five styles, from Classic black & white to Blueprint, which suits the railway theme. Get six print sizes as $9 digital files, including 18×24″ and 24×36″, or order a framed print.
Oder poster St. Thomas| Print size | Resolution | Files |
|---|---|---|
| 30 × 40 cm11.8 × 15.7″ | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3)11.7 × 16.5″ | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2)16.5 × 23.4″ | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm18 × 24″ | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm19.7 × 27.6″ | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm24 × 36″ | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
For comparison, the free preview is 900 px wide, watermarked and meant for screens. The HD files have up to 8× the resolution in each direction and print cleanly at full poster size.
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