Caption: The CN engineer in charge of GO Transit cab car 242 keeps her speed down and the bell ringing as we pass by the TTR's John Street Interlocking Tower, having just departed Toronto Union Station on train #257 (one of the afternoon Toronto-Bramalea "Bramalea Flip" trains, this one departing at 11:30am off Track 1, on-time). The click-click-click of the throttle would soon bring the train up to a slightly faster speed departing the USRC at Strachan Ave.

Back in 2005-ish there were no new cab cars (that have an enclosed cab and no see-through windows for passengers to watch out the front), little security concerns, and the cab car door was open more often than not. It was fun sitting there looking out the front "railfan seat" window the whole trip, while glancing across and watching the speedometer hover around 80 miles-an-hour (about 130 km/h) on the stretch past Woodbine Racetrack between Etobicoke North and Malton, and after Malton on the approach to Halwest, with bell ringing for any crossings and the wind whistling through the engineers' open cab window.

IIRC, the beginning of the end of the GO cab car "railfan seat" was in the late 2000's or early 2010's when GO switched to having two crewmembers in the cab, and started installing pull-down blinds on the conductor's side of the cab partition because of this.