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Railpictures.ca - Canadian Railway Photography - photographie ferroviaire Canadienne. » Doug Page http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:06:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Images by doug-page http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=1809 http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname#comments Thu, 07 May 2026 16:32:49 +0000 Doug Page

Likely charging the air after doubling the outbound train together, the Starlight prepares to depart for Toronto Yard behind Penn Central GP7 5820, GP9 7429, and fairly new CP M636 4722. It looks like they weren't able to wye the power and had to change ends, since the CP unit likely led the train to Hamilton (which was normally the case when a CP unit was added to assist PC power).

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	07/ /1970
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

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F40PH-2 6411 leads VIA No. 73 away from its stop at Aldershot early in 1995. The former CN "blue cars" and steam generator are rolling off some of their final miles; within a year, head end power ("HEP-2") stainless steel will replace them on Toronto-Windsor trains. (At the time of the photo, HEP-1 cars were normally used on the Niagara Falls trains.)

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/ /1995
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

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GP40-2LWs 9620 and 9411 along with GP9 4527 lead train 463, the "pulp train" (MacMillan Yard-Fort Erie), past Aldershot Yard and the Cold Storage building on a nice day in the spring of 1977. Note the dimensional load behind the power, where the crew can keep an eye on it.

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	4/ /1977
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

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CN GP9 4511 and QNSL SD40 204 roll past the future site of the Aldershot GO station on a nice spring evening in 1969. As you can see, the lot used to be occupied by the large J Cooke Concrete Blocks business with a small CN yard (built in the 1960s) opposite.

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	5/ /1969
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

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A CP westbound rolls past the Cold Storage building at Aldershot on a beautiful spring 1995 evening. Power is former SOO Line SD40-2 762 in CP Rail System paint, HATX GP40-2 508 (originally built as Boston & Maine 315 in 1977; later acquired by CP and numbered 4654), and PNC SD 3107.

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	5/ /1995
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

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By the mid-1970s, the London built GP9s and GP7s which had held down the CP-TH&B-NYC/PC run-through trains for years were showing their age and often supplemented by Penn Central second generation 4-axle units. Today the Starlight has GP38 7834, U25B 2605, and GP9 7429 leading the train up the grade into Aldershot on their way back to CP's Toronto Yard ("Agincourt"). Hard to believe it's been over 50 years since this shot was taken...

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	4/21/1974
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

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Who doesn't like new engines? Recently built SD40 5082 leads sister 5044, GP9 4478, SW1200R 123?, and another SW1200RS westbound through Aldershot on a lovely April evening. Note the CN ice cooled reefer sitting on the cold storage track.

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	04/ /1969
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

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Aldershot used to be a wonderful place to watch trains. You could drive down to the tracks, park near the old "cold storage" and take photos to your heart's content or just watch the action, undisturbed. On a bright January afternoon in 1997, a CN westbound rolls through behind new SD75I 5636, GTW GP38-2 5707 (soon to be renumbered 4907, formerly MP 2027), GTW SD40-2 5934 (formerly UP 4180), a 7200 series GP9RM and a slug (the latter two units likely bound for Sarnia).

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1/ /1997
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

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On one of those dreary southern Ontario winter days, a CN freight eases past the old cold storage building at Aldershot and prepares to work Aldershot yard. CN is still leasing GO Transit power on weekends, with a pair of GP40TCs and GP40-2LWs powering this eastbound. More GP40-2Ws and M420Ws are due from GMD and MLW later this year, which will soon make such scenes much less common.

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	2/ /1976
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

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Ontario Northland's TEE trains arrived in Toronto in the spring of 1977 and made their first run on their Toronto-Timmins route June 9, 1977 (source: TRHA web site). These novel trains were promoted in varous ways, including display in Belleville which was followed by a UCRS sponsored excursion from Belleville to Toronto over "the back route" (Campbellford and Uxbridge subs) on May 27, 1978--shown here at Lindsay. The original 1957 Werkspoor locomotives were replaced by FP7s in 1980.

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	5/27/1978
Location:	Lindsay
Province:	Ontario

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Throughout their careers, VIA's LRC locomotives were plagued by reliability problems--especially in the early years. In fact, many were removed from service as VIAs F40PH-2D units became available to cover corridor schedules in the late 1980s and early 1990s. (A few hung on until the P42s were delivered in 2001.) On this January day in 1983, CN GP9 4120 has come to the rescue assisting Toronto-Windsor train 72 through Hamilton West as it passes an eastbound CN freight led by GP40-2LW 9405, M420W 2548 and M420W 2536. Also note the Tempo passenger cars.

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	1/27/1983
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

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For many years, RDCs held down the Niagara Falls trains. Checking old passenger timetables, this seems to have started with the October 1961 "change of card" where RDCs from the Falls would connect with through trains which ran into/backed out of Hamilton. (Fun fact--until that time, the evening conventional train carried a Niagara Falls-Montreal sleeper, "open for occupancy at Niagara Falls 6:45 pm"! There was also a Montreal-Niagara Falls sleeper on the morning train.) At the spring 1962 timetable change, CN moved the connection out of Hamilton by extending three RDCs each way to Dundas--a practice which only lasted until the fall of 1962 when RDCs protected two of three Toronto-Hamilton-Niagara Falls trains (the third schedule was a conventional train). By the late 1960s, RDCs had become the norm (typically three Budd car sets, but often four cars on holiday weekends). By the 1980s, VIA was still running three trains per day but generally with two RDCs on the two Niagara Falls return trips (with Amtrak equipment on the Maple Leaf to and from New York starting in April 1981). On 16 November 1986, something clearly has gone wrong since we have CN GP9 4590 leading the usual pair of RDCs on the afternoon train from Niagara Falls.
P.S. RDCs would last on these trains until the great January 1990 VIA cutback when they were retired and replaced by conventional equipment. Service was reduced to one VIA consist and one Amtrak consist in each direction. Today, only the Maple Leaf runs--the second train having been cancelled at the end of October 2012.

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	11/16/1986
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

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Here's another shot from early 1964 when CN was leasing B&LE F units due to a traffic surge. The train will continue on into Hamilton and down to Niagara behind its ABBA consist of F7s. (For those not familiar with the setting, I'm standing below the old Snake Road bridge and that is the old Plains Road bridge in the background.)

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1/ /1964
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

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As the shadows move in, CN 6060 heads east through Bayview. The 1970s were pretty good years for steam locomotives in Ontario between Canadian National (6218 then 6060), Ontario Rail (136 and 1057), and Bytown Railway Society (1057 and 1201).

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	8/ /1974
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

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For many years, Dofasco's Internal Transportation Department performed its own industrial switching. Jacksonville Terminal NW2 30 (renumbered Dofasco 415)s shown in Hamilton shortly after its March 1965 acquisition. This locomotive was sold in 2005--see this article on the Old Time Trains web site:http://trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/industrial/ont/dofasco.htm

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Dofasco
Date:	5/ /1965
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

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With lots of smoke, a CP westbound throttles up, taking "a run at the hill" to Orrs Lake. The train is still occupying the Dundas Street crossing (protected by a watchman in the distant tower) and will soon cross the Grand River as the operator at the Galt station--no doubt on the platform--inspects the train. Power is Western Lines GP9 8535, SGU-equipped RS10 8559, and an unidentified FPA2 or FA2. "OS Galt..."

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/ /1974
Location:	Galt
Province:	Ontario

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Under threatening skies, four passenger units (CN FPA4 6773, F9Bs 6632 and 6624, and borrowed GTW GP9 4921) move an eastbound train with a dimensional load through Milton as 1972 draws to a close.

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	12/ /1972
Location:	Milton
Province:	Ontario

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Having originated as Pool Train No. 5 in Montreal this morning (departure from Central Station at 8:45 AM), and scheduled to arrive in Toronto at 4:35 PM, the La Salle slows for its station stop in Burlington. Scheduled to depart Toronto at 5:15 and Burlington at 5:55 PM--all going well--No. 5 should cross the border a little after 9:00 tonight and be in Chicago by 6:00 AM (Central Time) tomorrow. The GTW GP9s (4910 and 4913) took over the train at Toronto, probably having brought the International Limited in this morning.

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	8/ /1964
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

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I'm not sure of the reason for this..but on a nice clear morning in March 1972, I found CP RS3 8439 accompanied by TH&B GP7s 77, 73, and 75 at the TH&B's Chatham Street roundhouse. While RS3s where commonly used on the Goderich sub train in the mid-late 1970s, pairs of SW1200RS units were more common in the early 1970s and this would be an odd way to pick up or leave a unit at the roundhouse. Perhaps a delayed Kinnear?

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Toronto Hamilton a…
Date:	3/ /1972
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

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Passenger units 6763 and 6871 lead a short eastbound towards Tansley in the spring of 1970. "High and Wide" loads and auto cars make up most of this short train (8 cars and the van).

Name:	Doug Page
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	4/ /1970
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

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