Railpictures.ca - Barry Schroeder photo, Dan Dell'Unto coll. Photo: CP Rail train #11, “The Canadian”, heads through downtown Woodbridge during the final months of CP operation (before CP handed most of its passenger operations over to VIA in September 1978). CP FP7 4067 leads a short Toronto-Sudbury consist solo, only 5 stainless steel cars long (baggage-dorm, coach, Skyline dome, diner & sleeper) and run without a Park car in its last CP years. The train has just passed Kipling Avenue (8th Line) and is passing the sectionman’s shack by the private crossing to Woodbridge Foam. In the foreground is the south end of the Woodbridge siding/passing track. CP 8107, one of the local Toronto-assigned SW1200RS units, works a local wayfreight on the former Toronto, Grey & Bruce (TG&B) spur, that was once the mainline through town (until CP realigned the line around 1907-ish, shifting the mainline track to the east through downtown Woodbridge on a new alignment). The north section of the old TG&B alignment here remained as a short spur serving a few local Woodbridge industries, including Woodbridge Foam (ex-Robson’s Cotton Mill), Woodbridge Lumber, a team track and ramp, fuel dealer, grain elevator, and a farm supply co-op operating out of the original TG&B Woodbridge Station, that still existed (!) into the mid-1970′s until it was demolished for a new fire station and the Woodbridge Avenue road extension west of Kipling. By this time the CPR’s own Woodbridge Station, that once stood near the end of the train to the right, had been demolished a number of years prior (officially closed May 1968), so the next station stop for #11 after departing Toronto Union Station would be Bolton. Kleinburg Station in the hamlet of Nashville, the next stop north, had also been closed by this time (but was saved from demolition and moved into Kleinburg proper for preservation). Many changes have occurred here since: the TG&B Spur is no more (the last remains behind Nino D’Aversa bakery removed around 2025 for a new townhouse complex), the lumberyard is now townhouses, and The Canadian left CP’s rails not long into the VIA era. Woodbridge Foam still exists here, as do many of the old heritage houses in the background along Kipling (that one house in the background, located right next to the grade crossing, is now home to Condello Trucking/Condor Float Service). Barry Schroeder photo, Dan Dell’Unto slide collection. | Railpictures.ca – Canadian Railway Photography

CP Rail train #11, "The Canadian", heads through downtown Woodbridge during the final months of CP operation (before CP handed most of its passenger operations over to VIA in September 1978). CP FP7 4067 leads a short Toronto-Sudbury consist solo, only 5 stainless steel cars long (baggage-dorm, coach, Skyline dome, diner & sleeper) and run without a Park car in its last CP years. The train has just passed Kipling Avenue (8th Line) and is passing the sectionman's shack by the private crossing to Woodbridge Foam.

In the foreground is the south end of the Woodbridge siding/passing track. CP 8107, one of the local Toronto-assigned SW1200RS units, works a local wayfreight on the former Toronto, Grey & Bruce (TG&B) spur, that was once the mainline through town (until CP realigned the line around 1907-ish, shifting the mainline track to the east through downtown Woodbridge on a new alignment). The north section of the old TG&B alignment here remained as a short spur serving a few local Woodbridge industries, including Woodbridge Foam (ex-Robson's Cotton Mill), Woodbridge Lumber, a team track and ramp, fuel dealer, grain elevator, and a farm supply co-op operating out of the original TG&B Woodbridge Station, that still existed (!) into the mid-1970's until it was demolished for a new fire station and the Woodbridge Avenue road extension west of Kipling.

By this time the CPR's own Woodbridge Station, that once stood near the end of the train to the right, had been demolished a number of years prior (officially closed May 1968), so the next station stop for #11 after departing Toronto Union Station would be Bolton. Kleinburg Station in the hamlet of Nashville, the next stop north, had also been closed by this time (but was saved from demolition and moved into Kleinburg proper for preservation).

Many changes have occurred here since: the TG&B Spur is no more (the last remains behind Nino D'Aversa bakery removed around 2025 for a new townhouse complex), the lumberyard is now townhouses, and The Canadian left CP's rails not long into the VIA era. Woodbridge Foam still exists here, as do many of the old heritage houses in the background along Kipling (that one house in the background, located right next to the grade crossing, is now home to Condello Trucking/Condor Float Service).

Barry Schroeder photo, Dan Dell'Unto slide collection.

Caption: CP Rail train #11, "The Canadian", highballs through downtown Woodbridge during the final months of CP operation (before CP handed most of its passenger operations over to VIA in September 1978). Former AM Road "Silver Streak" Hollywood star CP FP7 4067 leads a short Toronto-Sudbury consist solo, only 5 stainless steel cars long (baggage-dorm, coach, Skyline dome, diner & sleeper) and run without a Park car in its last CP years. The train has just passed Kipling Avenue (8th Line) and is passing the sectionman's shack by the private crossing to Woodbridge Foam.

In the foreground is the south end of the Woodbridge siding/passing track. CP 8107, one of the local Toronto-assigned SW1200RS units, works a wayfreight on the former Toronto, Grey & Bruce (TG&B) spur, that was once the mainline through town (until CP realigned the line in 1907-08, shifting the mainline track to the east through downtown Woodbridge on a new alignment). The north section of the old TG&B alignment here remained as a short spur serving a few local Woodbridge industries, including Woodbridge Foam (ex-Robson's Cotton Mill), Woodbridge Lumber, a team track and ramp, fuel dealer, grain elevator, and a farm supply co-op operating out of the original TG&B Woodbridge Station, that still existed (!) into the mid-1970's until it was demolished for a new fire station and the Woodbridge Avenue road extension west of Kipling.

By this time the CPR's own Woodbridge Station, that once stood near the end of the train to the right, had been demolished a number of years prior (officially closed May 1968, no more passenger service for Woodbridge), so the next station stop for #11 after departing Toronto Union Station would be Bolton. Kleinburg Station in the hamlet of Nashville, the next stop north, had also been closed by this time (but was saved from demolition and moved into Kleinburg proper for preservation).

Many changes have occurred here since: the TG&B Spur is no more (the last remains behind Nino D'Aversa bakery removed around 2025 for a new townhouse complex), the lumberyard is now townhouses, and The Canadian left CP's rails not long into the VIA era. Woodbridge Foam still exists here, as do many of the old heritage houses in the background along Kipling (that one house in the background, located right next to the grade crossing, is now home to Condello Trucking/Condor Float Service).

Barry Schroeder photo, Dan Dell'Unto slide collection.

More of The Canadian in Woodbridge:
CP #11 crossing the Highway 7 bridge: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=42540
CP #12 past the Humber River bridge: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=25984
CP #11 at Langstaff Ave underpass: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=47972
CP #12 heading south past Highway 7: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=36502
CP #11 at Highway 27 underpass: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=1644

Photographer:	Barry Schroeder photo, Dan Dell'Unto coll. [1158] (more) (contact)
Date:	Circa May 1978 (search)
Railway:	Canadian Pacific (search)
Reporting Marks:	CP 4067, 8107 (search)
Train Symbol:	CP 11 - The Canadian (search)
Subdivision/SNS:	Woodbridge - CP MacTier Sub (search)
City/Town:	Vaughan (Woodbridge) (search)
Province:	Ontario (search)
Share Link:	http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=59174

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