Caption:

A pair of MLW's finest enter the North Toronto Sub., no flags, this westbound is a regularly scheduled movement

CP Rail 4571, MLW 1969 built M-630

CP Rail 4716, MLW 1970 built M-636

The trailing GMD appears to be a 5000 series GP-35

And on the South Track that's a high green for an eastbound, at Leaside, March 2, 1980 Kodachrome, with a Nikkor 28mm f2.8 lens, by S.Danko

noteworthy

The original Leaside Junction consisted of one crossover to accommodate westbound north track access to the Don Branch

At extreme right is top end of The Don Branch, Belleville Sub mile 206.3 (the route to the Don station site mile 209.5)

Some of the final CP trains to use the Don Branch were the 2816 excursion train dead head movement with Go Transit equipment and the 2004 CP Holiday train.

The Don Branch is currently owned by Metrolinx and in a state of disrepair and partially removed. Apparently Metrolinx had an idea to speed up the Richmond Hill GO trains by using the CP Don Branch (3.2 miles) – CP Belleville Sub through Leaside (1.3 miles) – CN Leaside (ex CNoR) Branch (2.2 miles) route to CN Oriole on the Bala Sub as a replacement route for the slow 30 m.p.h., curvy Don Valley Bala Sub (miles 2.0 at CN Don to Mile 11.3 CN Oriole) – except CP had quite the price to allow so. So you and I own – purchased by Metrolinx from CP for a price we'll never know - a piece of derelict railway right-of-way that will likely never see a GO train.

At extreme left the six track Leaside yard - that stretched from near Wickstead to Bayview Ave - is gone, removed over the past ten years or so.

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Leaside - west end

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