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Great photo! 6060 was one of my favourite steam engines when I was a kid. Never saw it in action on any excursion sadly.
As for Scarborough Junction, a grand structure used to stand and serve as the station here. Sadly, this burned down early to mid 60′s I believe. A smaller, more modern ‘bus station’ building was built in it’s place. I think this too was removed when GO built it’s Guildwood station? Not sure. Maybe another station guy could confirm this.
A little bit of digging turned up this, from the late Derek Boles’ old TORY Heritage mailing list:
“December 18, 1960:
The Canadian National Railways Scarboro station is destroyed by fire, along with a large number of Christmas parcels awaiting delivery. The frame structure nine miles east of Union Station had been built by the Grand Trunk Railway in 1871 as “Scarboro Junction,” since the Toronto & Nipissing Railway branched off to the north just west of the depot. The narrow gauge T&N used Grand Trunk track to reach its Toronto terminal by laying a third rail from Scarboro Junction to Berkeley Street. In 1881, the T&N was bought by the Midland Railway, after which nearby Midland Avenue was named. In 1967, GO Transit built a new Scarborough station south of St. Clair Avenue E. The Stouffville GO trains still branch north from the CN Kingston Sub. at Scarborough.”
A bit more digging: it took a few years to build a new station, as aerial imagery and a 1962 photo shows an old wooden OCS boxcar turned into a temporary train order office for the junction. CN built a new small mid-century modern style station on the site around 1964, which lasted until the Midland Ave. grade separation and was removed around 1977-1981 (it wasn’t used by GO, who opted for their own station).