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An extra freight behind CP 5695, 4505, 4207, 4218 shoves back into West Toronto yard, passing beneath the Weston Road bridge, and pounding over the diamonds with the CN Weston Sub mains and CP Mactier Sub connecting track. <br><br><i>Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.</i>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 05/1979
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
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CN S13 8516 switches a pair of Amfleet coaches around the Spadina coach yard, while another switcher takes a VIA consist through the wash racks in the distance. Note the Speno <a href=https://www.flickr.com/photos/chuckzeiler/27790786999>Rail Surface Analyzer car</a> tied down in the distance. <br><br><i>Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.</i>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/15/1984
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Comments | 21 Favourites
The rain is pouring down in Palmerston, where three RDCs, formerly trains 672 (Southampton), 668 (Owen Sound), and 662 (Kincardine), are lined up on the Newton Sub platform before their respective departures for Toronto and Stratford. <br><br>The official last runs of the RDC service to Owen Sound, Kincardine, Southampton, and Goderich was the evening before, on Friday, Oct 23, 1970. Though these services continued to operate to Toronto (and Stratford) as extras until the end of the month. Daylight saving time ended early Sunday morning, Oct 25, 1970, and CN and CP would bring out their winter timetables at this time change. <br><br><i>Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.</i> <br><br>More shots from this date: <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=45100>Extra 6101 arriving at Palmerston</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=55090>Extra 6101 spotted on the Newton Sub</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=59470>Extra 6354 arriving at Palmerston</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=48776>Extra 6354 pulling down the platform</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=56794>Waiting on the Newton Sub</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=50370>All three RDCs lined up at the station</a>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/24/1970
Location: Palmerston
Province: Ontario
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A westbound freight behind three of CP's GMD GP38ACs rumbles west near Yonge Street along the North Toronto Sub. <br><br><i>Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.</i>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 04/17/1973
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 11 Favourites
The weekend of September 13 - 15, 1963 marked a massive undertaking by the Upper Canada Railway Society, a 692.2 mile excursion from Toronto - Ottawa - North Bay - Temagami - Toronto, with seventeen coaches behind CNR 6167. With the train having run overnight from Toronto - Ottawa on the 13th, the train turned west and departed the nation's capital early on the 14th, running across northern Ontario to North Bay. 6167 would be removed at North Bay, with ONR FP7s handling the train to Temagami overnight. The consist returned to North Bay on the morning of the 15th, with 6167 taking over once again for the return to Toronto. Further information can also be found in the <a href=https://railwaypages.com/upper-canada-railway-society-ucrs-and-its-publications>December 1963 UCRS news letter.</a> <br><br>About 40 miles after <a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=59949>the previous runpast,</a> CNR 6167 has cut off from the excursion to take on coal and water, and is seen making a reverse move over the Muskrat River bridge. Below the bridge, and to the right of the tender, note the white milepost of the CNR Locksley Subdivision, which should be mile 20, as "National Junction" would be located at mile 20.2, off to the right closer to town. The Locksley Sub ran 21.1 miles from Golden Lake, and a connection to the CNR Renfrew Sub, north to Pembroke, ending at a downtown station. CNR was permitted to abandon the Locksley Sub from Golden Lake to mile 19.5 in 1960, and mile 19.5 - mile 20.01 in 1963. The remaining mile was used as an industrial spur. <br><br>Pembroke was served by another CNR station on the mainline, a bit east of this location. Del Rosamond shot <a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=34364>an eastbound there in 1958.</a> <br><br><i>Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.</i>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/14/1963
Location: Pembroke
Province: Ontario
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An Ontario Rail Association trip to Orangeville behind ex CPR D10 1057 departs West Toronto station, swinging through the Galt Sub curve approaching Lambton and West Toronto yards. <br><br><i>Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.</i>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/23/1973
Location: West Toronto
Province: Ontario
Comments | 12 Favourites
Departing West Toronto station, an Ontario Rail Association trip to Orangeville behind ex CPR D10 1057 swings through the Galt Sub curve at the Lambton mileboard. Local industries, a passing freight, and the Weston Road overpass complete the scene. <br><br><i>Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.</i>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/23/1973
Location: West Toronto
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 16 Favourites
Operating Montreal – New York, Delaware & Hudson train 34, <i>The Laurentian,</i> pauses in front of the <a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=26582>Napierville Junction Railway</a> station at Lacolle, Quebec. Built in 1930, this structure served as a station and customs office for the NJR and later the D&H. <br><br>The D&H had operated passenger service into Montreal since 1923 with both its Laurentian by day and Montreal Limited overnight. These operated into Canada over D&H subsidiary, Napierville Junction Railway, running 27 miles from Rouses Point, New York - Delson and into Montreal via CPR trackage rights. Endangered by declining ridership by the 1960s, new management in the D&H's passenger department sought to revitalize the operation after negative public response to the potential cancellation. To do so, the D&H acquired four ALCO PA-1 locomotives in 1967, <a href=https://www.railpictures.net/photo/484399>numbered 16 - 19, from the ATSF.</a> Wearing a modified ATSF Warbonnet scheme, with D&H blue replacing the red, they would handle the trains of second hand equipment until their final runs on April 30, 1971, as neither The Laurentian or Montreal Limited were included in Amtrak's start up. In 1974, passenger service over the D&H was to be resurrected by Amtrak as The Adirondack, funded by the New York Department of Transportation. With limited equipment available to Amtrak at the time, the D&H, then led by Carl Sterzing, provided its PAs and passenger equipment for the runs. For their return to passenger operation the PAs would be rebuilt from their original ALCO 244 prime mover to ALCO 251s in 1974 by Morrison-Knudsen, and designated ALCO PA-4s. The rebuilt units served until 1977 when Amtrak replaced the D&H equipment with <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=45337>Rohr Turboliners.</a> It is also noted, the D&H had acquired a fifth PA for parts in the 1960s, <a href=https://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=481754>former New Haven 0783.</a> It was scraped in 1972. <br><br>The last passenger train to stop at Lacolle would be in April 1985, when Amtrak’s Adirondak was rerouted from CP Windsor Station to CN/VIA Rail Gare Centrale, taking CN’s Rouses Point Subdivision through Cantic a few miles to the east. Lacolle station <a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=46773>still stands today,</a> designated a heritage railway station in 1991. <br><br>More D&H PA Canadian action: <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10875>D&H 16 near Montreal West</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10874>D&H 18 at Montreal West</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=12195>D&H 18 at Westmount</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=49629>Windsor Station 1975</a> <br><br><i>Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.</i>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Delaware and Hudso…
Date: 04/1971
Location: Lacolle
Province: Quebec
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Cut off from their train, Extra B&O 4487 (class lights lit) moves through the east end of the yard near Finch Avenue. Taken in mid-late February, the lease of B&O F units began only just before this <a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=29413>on February 10, 1972.</a> More information on the lease of B&O F units <a href=https://www.waterlooregionmodelrailwayclub.ca/2022/10/bo-f-units-in-twilight/>can be found here.</a> <br><br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=58946>Extra 4487 approaching Agincourt station</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=59471>Extra 4487 passing through Agincourt station</a> <br><br><i>Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.</i>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 02/1972
Location: Agincourt
Province: Ontario
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Looking back from the rear of CN passenger extra 3151, a view of Waterloo's 1910 Grand Trunk Railway station at Regina Street, today the home of Paul Puncher Men's Clothier. Towering over the scene at right is the Marsland Centre building, having opened a few years earlier in 1971. Likely operated by the Ontario Rail Association, the extra is slowly returning to the Guelph Sub and ultimately Toronto Union Station after paying a visit to the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival.<br><br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=55371>Tempo units at Elmira (1)</a><br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=58887>Tempo units at Elmira (2)</a><br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=59801>Uptown Waterloo</a><br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=47842>Waterloo station, 1982</a><br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=51050>CN 1530 Job, 1993</a><br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44046>CN 1530 Job, 1997</a><br><br><i>Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.</i>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 04/1977
Location: Waterloo
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 17 Favourites
Rolling out of Mac Yard onto York three, CN M420 2572 takes charge of a short freight, throttling up by Keele Street. Shortly after 2572 clears, <a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=56821>a special move</a> to Allandale and Beeton will depart with equipment for the <a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=57017>startup of the South Simcoe Railway.</a><br><br><i>Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.</i>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 08/01/1986
Location: Vaughan
Province: Ontario
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MLW RSC-14 1776 runs down towards the throat of Halifax yard during switching moves. <br><br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=56893>Halifax morning</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=59800>Switching the yard</a> <br><br><i>Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.</i>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 08/1985
Location: Halifax
Province: Nova Scotia
1 Comments | 22 Favourites
Ontario Rail Association's ex CPR D10 1057 is shown at Cataract, a bit north of the junction switch with the Elora Sub, as fans disembark for a runpast along the Credit River. <br><br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=59790>Pausing in Mississauga</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=59439>Mississauga runpast</a> <br><br><i>Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.</i>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/23/1973
Location: Cataract
Province: Ontario
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Algoma Central Railway train 2, running Hearst - Sault St. Marie, pauses at Wabatong near mile 207. Passengers are seen gathering their belongings from beneath the shelter on the shore of Wabatongushi Lake, passing them to the baggage handler before climbing aboard. <br><br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=54251>Pausing at Oba</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=59048>The head end</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=59651>ACR meets CN</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=60063>New GP35s</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=60069>South of Mosher</a> <br><br><i>Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.</i>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Algoma Central
Date: 09/16/1964
Location: Wabatong
Province: Ontario
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Sitting outside the Pacific Great Eastern diesel shop at North Vancouver is MLW S13 1002, built in 1959. After service on the PGE and <a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=30256>BC Rail,</a> 1002 would become <a href=https://rrpicturearchives.net/pictures/4640957>Vancouver Wharves 827,</a> before heading east to Ontario as <a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=1883>OSR 502.</a> Today, it survives on the Waterloo Central, as <a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=49806>WCR 1002.</a>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Pacific Great East…
Date: 05/15/1967
Location: Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
1 Comments | 14 Favourites
CN train 674 from Southampton arrives at Palmerston with conventional passenger equipment trailing RSC13 1708. While typically equipped with RDCs, conventional equipment would return to the branchlines during the Christmas season, while the Budd cars were added to Niagara-bound trains. Several UCRS members made the trip to Palmerston on Boxing Day, 1962, to ride the wayfreight to Kincardine. The train, which ran as an extra, was not using a van for the tailend crew due to a shortage, but rather an old combine, giving the train the appearance of a mixed train. Regular passenger service on the Kincardine Sub still remained in 1962 in the form of one RDC trip. With releases signed, UCRS members were permitted to ride the "mixed," and with two at a time permitted to ride the flanger which departed for Listowel behind a pair of MLW RSC-13s; 1709 and 1732.Further details can be found in the <a href=https://railwaypages.com/upper-canada-railway-society-ucrs-and-its-publications>February 1963 UCRS newsletter.</a> <br><br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=55777>672 arrives from Owen Sound</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=54310>Later that day, Extra CNR 1732 at Brussels</a> <br><br><i>Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.</i>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 12/26/1962
Location: Palmerston
Province: Ontario
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Shortly after departing Oba, ACR train 2 approaches the trestle over Lake Oba at roughly mile 212.5, a few miles south of Mosher. <br><br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=54251>Pausing at Oba</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=59048>The head end</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=59651>ACR meets CN</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=60063>New GP35s</a> <br><br><i>Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.</i>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Algoma Central
Date: 09/16/1964
Location: Mosher
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 13 Favourites
Canadian National's only two GP35 units, recently released from GMD London, lead a westbound train over the diamond with the Algoma Central at Oba, meeting southbound ACR train 2, out of view at left.<br><br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=54251>Pausing at the station</a><br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=59048>The head end</a><br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=59651>The ACR/CN meet</a><br><br><i>Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.</i>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/16/1964
Location: Oba
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 26 Favourites
CP's Guelph Junction roadswitcher negotiates the crossovers at the east end of Guelph Junction, returning from work at Barnes Environmental International at Waterdown North. <br><br>Earlier that morning: <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=58788>CP and GO tied down</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=56684>Making up their train</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=59530>A busy yard</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=56795>Departing for Waterdown North</a> <br><br><i>Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.</i>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/1985
Location: Guelph Junction
Province: Ontario
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The weekend of October 23 & 24, 1965 saw the Upper Canada Railway Society run an excursion on each of the class one railways. The Sunday trip running on the Canadian National behind CNR CPA-16-5 6704 and FPA-4 6774 departed Toronto Union station for Georgetown via the Weston and Halton Subs, before heading up to Allandale along the Beeton Sub returning to Union Station via the Newmarket. Here, the train passes beneath CPR's Mactier Sub just south of Beeton. <br><br>More of this excursion: <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=58467>Approaching Inglewood</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=60003>Inglewood diamond</a> <br><a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=55179>Tottenham pond</a> <br><br><i>Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.</i>
Name: John Freyseng
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/24/1965
Location: Beeton
Province: Ontario
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