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Been a long time rail fan taken slides since about 1973

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Before and after. The daily Laser train crosses over Plains Road in Burlington, approaching the junction with the Halton Sub at Burlington West. Up front is patched GT 6418 wearing it’s old Detroit, Toledo & Ironton colours, while trailing GT 6414 wears the full blue scheme.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Grand Trunk Wester…
Date: 08/1986
Location: Burlington
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
Aldershot bound, GO 247 leads a westbound through Burlington West.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: GO Transit
Date: Circa 2010
Location: Burlington West
Province: Ontario
Comments | 4 Favourites
Turbo equipped train 66 seems to have run into some mechanical problems, needing help from FP9A 6525 on the approach to Danforth, about to duck under Main Street. The scene is very different compared to <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44970>what Doug Page shot</a> almost 20 years earlier.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: Circa 1980
Location: Danforth
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 15 Favourites
TH&B 54 sits in Aberdeen Yard.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Toronto Hamilton a…
Date: 05/1976
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
Comments | 14 Favourites
The engineer on VIA Rail 189 poses in front of his pair of Budd RDCs at Havelock before departing on the second last run to Toronto. The final westbound run would take place the following day, Monday, September 6, 1982. In a few years time, the Havelock train will be reinstated on June 3, 1985, before being cut for good in January 1990.<br><br>More of the “Havelock Budds”:<br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=39310>Havelock, July 1976, Arnold Mooney</a><br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=25461>Burketon, July 1976, Doug Hately</a><br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=43382>Havelock, August 1977, Arnold Mooney</a><br>A series of shots by Steve Danko, showing the second last run, September 5, 1982:<br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=7752>Arriving Peterborough</a><br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44354>Pulling down the shoe fly</a><br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44008>The platform scene at Peterborough</a><br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=7694>Toronto-bound through Pontypool</a><br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44395>Last Day at Peterborough, Eric May</a><br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=46428>Havelock after the return, August 1986, Steve Danko</a>
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 09/05/1982
Location: Havelock
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 16 Favourites
Headed for the connection with the Canpa Sub, a pair of SOO SD60s take an intermodal eastbound along the Oakville Sub by Burlington West station.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: SOO Line
Date: 1990s
Location: Burlington West
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 14 Favourites
A pair of standard cab SD40-2s sit on the point of an eastbound at London East near the elevator. 5038 would be destroyed in a collision at Mont-Saint-Hilaire, QC in December 1999, while 5024 was sold to the BNSF in 1999 and rebuilt as BNSF 7327, <a href=http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1439002>renumbered BNSF 6987</a> around 2007, and finally to Webb Asset Management <a href=http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2740713>as WAMX 4165.</a>
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 1990s
Location: London
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 14 Favourites
An SD75i and a pair zebra geeps lead a string of tanks westbound on the Halton at mile 30. Of these three, only the 9650 has left the CN roster, now working as <a href=http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5374840>Vermont Railway 310.</a>
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: Circa 2000
Location: Scotch Block
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
A westbound CP freight passes through Guelph Junction with some intermodal traffic on the head end, including a CP Rail International Freight Systems trailer.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 1990s
Location: Guelph Junction
Province: Ontario
Comments | 16 Favourites
Turbo equipped 66 departs Toronto, passing over Jarvis Street bound for Montreal with VIA 154 bringing up the rear. Note the two near tracks are to old <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=21341>high line freight bypass.</a>
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: Circa 1981
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 22 Favourites
CN/GTW Trailer On Flat Car aka "Laser" train 238 is eastbound along the Oakville Sub approaching Lemonville Road, bound for Brampton Intermodal Terminal. Power today includes a trio of former Detroit Toledo & Ironton GP40-2 locomotives, renumbered into the Grand Trunk Western 6400-series after the DT&I came under GTW control in the early 1980s. 6415/6412 were originally DT&I 415/412.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Grand Trunk Wester…
Date: 06/1986
Location: Aldershot
Province: Ontario
Comments | 18 Favourites
TH&B SW9 58 rests at Chatham Street Roundhouse. Built at GMD London in January 1951, the 58 would be <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=39299>sold to Atlas Steel for scrap</a> in May 1988, but would avoid the torch, being sold to the Brandywine Valley Railroad in Pennsylvania <a href=http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/thb/BVRY%208206-1.jpg>as BVRY 8206.</a> It would be transferred to the nearby Upper Merion & Plymouth Railroad as UMP 9007 in 1991, where it was operating as <a href=http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/thb/UMP_9007_9009.JPG>recently as 2017.</a>
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Toronto Hamilton a…
Date: 01/1986
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 15 Favourites
Trailing a westbound CP freight is SOO caboose 76 passing through Guelph Junction. GO Transit F59s 528 and 548 can just be seen on the storage tracks behind.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: SOO Line
Date: 06/1993
Location: Guelph Junction
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 12 Favourites
A shot probably taken at one of our LLL, Leaside Loco League, meet ups of eastbound SD's through Leaside with a pair of SOOs up front. Lots of CAST containers bringing up the head end.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 05/1986
Location: Leaside
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 16 Favourites
CN SW1200RSu 7308 sits near the shop at Mac Yard coupled to M420 3522. Built in 1960 as CNR 1373, the pup was rebuilt in 1987 to 7308 and retired in March 2000. From CN, the unit was sold to Canac and later to Savage Services, receiving their paintjob around 2013 <a href=https://train-orders.com/RFN/ETC/014.jpg>becoming SVGX 7308.</a> Barely in frame, 3522 originally CN 2522, would be retired in March 1998 and sold a few months later to National Railway Equipment in Silvis, Illinois. It would be picked up by the <a href=http://capecodrails.railfan.net/cccx/ccc2000s.jpg>Cape Cod Central Railroad becoming their 2000</a> for a couple of years before returning to Canada and heading for the prairies as <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=25117>Great Western Railway 2000.</a> The GWR retired it’s MLW fleet in recent years, with the 2000 moving east to Manitoba, now operating on the Keewatin Railway as their 2404.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 1990s
Location: Concord
Province: Ontario
Comments | 16 Favourites
VIA 73 is seen making it's station stop at Burlington West. Looks like it's a weekend with the lengthened consist.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: Late 1982
Location: Burlington West
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 16 Favourites
A set of SOO power leads what is likely a rock train headed for Aberdeen Yard southbound on the Hamilton sub crossing over Bronte Creek/Progreston Pond.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: SOO Line
Date: 07/1993
Location: Progreston
Province: Ontario
Comments | 12 Favourites
The sun now dipped below the horizon, it's time for a final shot of 431 at Guelph. Note the nose of CNR 6167 at far left. I had shot this train earlier <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=48133>at Limehouse</a> and just <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=48173>west of Acton.</a>
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/1998
Location: Guelph
Province: Ontario
Comments | 12 Favourites
Continuing west <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=48133>from Limehouse,</a> 431 crests the grade at Dublin Line just west of Acton.
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/1998
Location: Acton
Province: Ontario
Comments | 10 Favourites
Headed into the evening sun, CN 431 climbs through Limehouse about a month or so before operation of the Guelph Sub is handed over to the Goderich - Exeter Railway. GE Dash 9-44CW 2563 on the point is just over a year old, emerging from the factory in July 1997, and 25 years later is still seen <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44627>plying the rails.</a>
Name: Bruce Acheson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/1998
Location: Limehouse
Province: Ontario
5 Comments | 9 Favourites
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