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Great scene, John. How often was CN going down the branch to service Leaside by this time?
Very Neat.
The Duncan / Oriole cut off, ex CNoR trackage. Leaside was the location of the CNoR locomotive and car shops. Locomotive shop building is now a grocery store.
CN Leaside serviced daily Monday to Friday, sometimes Saturday through the eighties. A major customer, Canada Wire and Cable (Noranda Inc.) was acquired by Alcatel (French) in 1996 and moved operations to Markam. CN Leaside spur pulled up 1999.
I have witnessed CN power in the CP Leaside yard as far west as the Leaside crossovers, and I was told that CN (through CNoR running rights) has running rights on the CP Belleville and North Toronto Subs north track Donlands to CP North Toronto station site.
sdfourty
When attending University of Toronto in the late 1950’s, in nice weather, I would walk down Avenue Rd to lectures and would see now and again a CNR 0-8-0 with freight cars shuffling along on the north side of CPR North Toronto Sub. It was my understanding that CN had acquired the CNorR running rights to operate over the CPR North Toronto Sub as far west as TTC’s Hillcrest Shops on the west side of Bathurst St. Am not sure, but believe CNorR had an overnight passenger train that departed from CPR’s Yonge-Summerhill Station for Ottawa and then on to Montreal up to 1921.