Railpictures.ca - Canadian Railway Photography - photographie ferroviaire Canadienne. » MrDan 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 mrdanno4050 http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2 http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname#comments Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:38:53 +0000 MrDan
Heading eastbound into the city after dipping under the <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=36009><b>Queen Elizabeth Way</b></a> overpass, GO Transit GP40TC 500 speeds through the Swansea area of Toronto with a 7 bilevel Lakeshore West train bound for Union Station. One can see the water tower for the <a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=47105><b>Mr. Christie Lakeshore Bakery</b></a> in the background, and part of the Oshawa Group warehouse (next to the Ontario Food Terminal) on the right. The signals for the <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=43270><b>Mimico East</b></a> interlocking are visible in the distance. <br><br> <i>Original photographer unknown, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>
Name: Unknown, Dan Dell'U…
Railway: GO Transit
Date: Circa September 1984
Location: Toronto (Swansea)
Province: Ontario
Comments | 2 Favourites
Back in the era of long passenger trains with the power to match, CN 4103, one of the passenger GP9's with high-speed gearing, leads an A-B-A set of FPA4 6770, a 6600-series F9B and 6500-series FP9 on an eastbound passenger train, at least 12 cars long, leaving London Station (the black office tower of which is visible in the distance). The units have just crossing Colbourne Street, with two pedestrians leasurely strolling into view alongside the track.<br><br><i>Gord Taylor photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>
Name: Gord Taylor photo, …
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 03/18/1974
Location: London
Province: Ontario
Comments | 15 Favourites
Power for both Montreal and Toronto sections of Canadian Pacific's eastbound Canadian sits waiting under the bridge at Paris Street, as CP S2 7091 shuffles passenger cars east of the station in Sudbury. CP FP9 1406 and an F7B sit ahead, while CP FP7 1423, an F7B and FPA2 sit on the other side of the bridge by the fuel racks.<br><br>During CP operation, eastbound train <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6502><b>#2 "The Canadian"</b></a> from Vancouver split at <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=52322><b>Sudbury</b></a>, with one train heading east to <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=8230><b>Montreal as train #2</b></a>, and the other south to Toronto as <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=49537><b>train #12</b></a>. The reverse happened with westbound trains <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=31854><b>#11 from Toronto</b></a> and <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=4120><b>#1 from Montreal</b></a> combining at Sudbury into <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=41882><b>#1 for Vancouver</b></a>. Extra passenger cars would be kept at Sudbury, added or removed from consists as they were broken up or combined. Switching power was typically one of the locally-assigned <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=41125><b>7000-series</b></a> MLW S2 units.<br><br><i>J. Wollatt photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection print.</i>
Name: J. Wollatt photo, D…
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 1964
Location: Sudbury
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 16 Favourites
CN S3 8473 spots some cars behind CN's Belleville Roundhouse. Since they're both tank cars and the engine servicing facilities are alongside on the right, they might be spotted here for unloading diesel fuel into those large white tanks marked "FLAMMABLE, KEEP FLAMES AWAY, NO SMOKING" in big lettering (just a guess...). Some snowplows and boxcars can be seen near the turntable area in the distance. There looks to be a flanger or caboose visible inside the roundhouse (perhaps this was an indoor car repair track?). <br><br> <i>Keith Hansen photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>
Name: Keith Hansen photo,…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: Circa October 1970
Location: Belleville
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 12 Favourites
Another set of the diamonds, but not "the" diamonds: the rear truck of GO cab car 237 clatters over one of the diamonds for the <a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=59294><b>CP connecting track</b></a> at West Toronto, that connected the MacTier Sub to the North Toronto Sub. Our train, GO #252, has just cleared Old Weston Road crossing on the double track CN Weston Sub and is still crossing over the <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=15154><b>actual diamonds</b></a> with the double track CP North Toronto Sub (out of view to the south). CP's <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=29758><b>MacTier Sub</b></a> mainline can be seen on the far right. In the distance, both CN tracks become one at <a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=59199><b>CN Keele</b></a>.<br><br>Looking north, one can make out the old <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=41668><b>platforms </b></a>for the former <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=37086><b>CN West Toronto Station</b></a>, finally demolished only 8 years earlier. The fenced-in area where the station and express building once were was home to a compound lot used for storing snow removal equipment over the summer (the equipment was owned by Westridge Agriculture, which had one of the city snowplowing contracts, and they had rows and rows of old Champion and Wabco graders parked here). The building on the left was National Rubber Industries' Cawthra Ave plant. The <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=56951><b>Andrew Merrilees yard</b></a> was just out of view on the right. Judging by the machinery and pipes, there was some sewer or water main construction going on. Today, the old station grounds are gone, the connecting track is still there, but it now goes over both CN mainlines that have been grade separated into a giant trench below.
Name: Dan Dell'Unto
Railway: GO Transit
Date: 09/17/2007
Location: Toronto (West Toro…
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 13 Favourites
Right place, right time: during our GO train's wait at CN Keele (St. Clair Ave. W underpass) for the light at West Toronto to proceed south, CP train #116 shows up heading down the MacTier Sub with ES44AC 8764 in the lead, and a nice cut of green Canadian Armed Forces military vehicles on the head end (possibly bound for CFB Petawawa). The train is just passing the switch for the connecting track between the CN Weston Sub and CP MacTier Sub (allowing CN trains to enter CP's West Toronto/Lambton Yards to interchange traffic). In the foreground, the double-track CN Weston Sub turns into single track.<br><br>A few minutes later, GO #251 put in an appearance, snaking around our train on its trip north to Bramalea: <a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=59199><b>https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=59199</b></a>.<br><br>There was one GO passenger today not complaining about all the delays on his train ride in!
Name: Dan Dell'Unto
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 11/26/2007
Location: Toronto (West Toro…
Province: Ontario
Comments | 11 Favourites
CP GP9u 8226, probably on one of the Emery Turns, heads south on the MacTier Sub connection track enroute the West Toronto/Lambton Yards, crossing Old Weston Road and passing railway employees and demolition crews with their Hitachi excavator in the process of tearing down the old CN West Toronto Station.<br><br>The demolition of <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=14408><b>CP's West Toronto station</b></a> has been well-covered in the past, but demolition of <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=14213><b>CN's West Toronto Station</b></a> to the north has received little attention. It continued to see passenger use into the 1980's under VIA Rail, but by 1990 any passenger stops were gone (possibly a victim of the 1990 VIA cuts). Its importance also likely diminished when GO Transit started Georgetown line operations in 1974 and opted for their own new GO station at Bloor Street, closer to the TTC's Bloor-Danforth subway, rather than using CN's existing station here. According to notes by the late Toronto railway historian Derek Boles, both the CN station and express shed were severely damaged by a three-alarm fire on October 21st 1993, after being vacant/out of use for a number of years prior. <a href=https://flickr.com/photos/collations/4275529230/><b>Photos after</b></a> show it boarded up in a state of decay (the roof on the north end was much more damaged, and falling in). A bit more digging shows the station was eventually demolished years later around August 1999, after suffering from the aforementioned fire and years of vandalism. The vacant CN property in the middle of both CN and CP rail lines then became a compound yard for storing City of Toronto contractor snow removal equipment (with parts of the old station platform still visible), but was eventually all obliterated for the Metrolinx/GO West Toronto grade separation trench.<br><br><i>Original photographer unknown, Dan Dell'Unto collection print.</i><br><br>Note: this photo was a scan of an old print purchased from a train show back in the early 2000's, probably at one of the large annual CARM ones held at the Toronto Congress Centre every year. Unfortunately, no photographer or description was noted on the print, but from research I was able to narrow the demolition down to 1999.
Name: Unknown, Dan Dell'U…
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: Circa August 1999
Location: Toronto (West Toro…
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 16 Favourites
A brand new GMD GP38-2 in flashy blue and yellow chevron paint brightens up a gloomy day down at CP's Quebec Street yard in London: Ontario Northland 1808, freshly outshopped from the nearby GMD London plant, sits awaiting forwarding to its owner in northern Ontario. It was part of a two unit order built in 1984 (units 1808-1809), numbered above ONR's existing eight units 1800-1807. These two were later production units featuring Q-fans, corrugated radiator grills, and angled "laundry chute" blower housings, on top of most of the usual "Canadian" spotting features such as nose headlight, tri-colour class lights, numberboard-mounted bell, vertical Canadian steps/handrails, and showshields behind the cab.<br><br><i>Gord Taylor photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>
Name: Gord Taylor photo, …
Railway: Ontario Northland
Date: 10/03/1984
Location: London
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 16 Favourites
General Motors of Canada Ltd SW900 47074 sits inside the grounds of GM's former McKinnon Industries <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=38658><b>St. Catharines plant</b></a> (foundry/casting work), looking clean and near spotless on this wet day. This yellow switcher was originally built by GMD London in 1966 for McKinnon Industries, later acquired by GM of Canada. It was eventually sold to Dofasco in Hamilton and became their <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=47792><b>416</b></a>.<br><br>The 900hp single stack SW900 model, powered by an 8-cylinder 567C, was part of EMD/GMD's common switcher platform line at the time and was in the middle range of their product offering: less powerful than the 12 cylinder 1200hp SW9/SW1200 model, but more powerful than the 6-cylinder 600hp SW1/SW600. It (and its 800hp predecessor SW8) were popular for light switching and industrial use.<br><br><i>Roger Heed photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>
Name: Roger Heed photo, D…
Railway: Industrial
Date: 09/14/1974
Location: St. Catharines
Province: Ontario
Comments | 17 Favourites
CN RDC-1's 6120 and 6119 cross the bridge over <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=21024><b>Trout Creek</b></a> in St. Mary's on a gloomy rainy day, operating on a fantrip around Southern Ontario. Some attendees are visible aboard during this photo stop/run-by, including one bearing a camera. Photo stops included Lucan Crossing, Forest, St. Mary's Junction, St. Thomas, and a visit to Port Stanley. <br><br> <i>Harold E. Brouse photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>
Name: H.E.Brouse photo, D…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/19/1975
Location: St. Mary's
Province: Ontario
Comments | 15 Favourites
CN GP40-2LW 9616 and GP38-2W 5571 handle train #547 eastbound on the Oakville Sub above the Desjardin Canal in Hamilton.<br><br>This photo, as well as being a nice view of the canal, provides a good study between the more powerful 3000 horsepower turbocharged GP40-2LW model, and the less powerful non-turbo 2000 horsepower GP38-2W model: note the difference in fans (3 vs 2), radiator sizes (larger vs shorter), and exhaust stacks (single for turbo vs a pair for non-turbo plus a paper air filter box).<br><br>This view also shows the difference in overall height between the taller, lighter "L" frame CN ordered on most of its early widecab GP40-2LW units (taller frame members caused the unit to ride higher), versus the normal frame on the GP38-2W model. This was apparently to allow the GP40's to maintain the correct overall weight, with the added weight of a Canadian Safety Cab and larger 3000 gallon fuel tanks for road service, versus the standard frame GP38-2W (and later GP40-2W) units ordered with a smaller 2300 gallon fuel tank for roadswitcher service.<br><br><i>Reg Button photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>
Name: Reg Button photo, D…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 02/20/1976
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 25 Favourites
CP Rail RDC-3 9021 trails an RDC-2 (likely 9112) departing Toronto Union Station on train #321 (the CP-TH&B-CR Budd run) to Buffalo. This view is looking northwest from near the foot of the CN Tower (note the yellow CN Tower pedestrian bridge), by the old CN Express building on the right (today part of the Skywalk). The downtown Toronto skyline looks quite bare compared to today. Also note the grey fence along the edge of the rail corridor, where "the fence track" got its name. The shadow of TTR's John Street interlocking tower can be seen on the far left. <br><br> <i>Harold E. Brouse photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i> <br><br> At Fort Erie in 1974: <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=53884><b>http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=53884</b></a>
Name: H.E.Brouse photo, D…
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 09/09/1978
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Comments | 15 Favourites
CN Dental Car 15095 sits at the end of track 27 at the southeast corner of CN's Spadina Coachyard, among a few old baggage cars (I get the impression a few of the out-of-the-way tracks here were used for storing old equipment retired, out of use, or for parts). The car had been converted from an old heavyweight sleeping car in the early 1950's to provide dental service to children across Northern Ontario. It was retired in 1977 and sold to the Toronto & York division of the Canadian Railway Historical Association, and was later moved to the CRHA's Harbourfront museum nearby at Bathurst and Queen's Quay for display. When the museum was dispersed in the mid-late 1980's, it was sent to Smith Falls to be part of the railway museum there (today the Railway Museum of Eastern Ontario). <br><br> Visible in the background is Front Street, CN's Bathurst Street freight yards (before conversion to store GO equipment), many, many, many VIA/CN passenger cars, and a CN FP9, GP9 and HEP baggage set. CN/VIA's Spadina Coachyard closed in the mid-1980's when VIA's Toronto Maintenance Centre opened in Mimico, the yard was cleared and became a largely vacant parcel of land known as the "railway lands" for many years (it even hosted a downtown golf course), until condo development began west of Spadina Avenue around the early 2000's. <br><br> <i>Original photographer unknown, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</>
Name: Unknown, Dan Dell'U…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/09/1978
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 20 Favourites
After finishing its morning run into downtown Toronto from Niagara Falls, VIA train #90 with F40PH-2D 6419 and 4 LRC cars backs its consist from Union Station to the Toronto Maintenance Centre in Mimico, passing GO bilevels laying over at Bathurst North Yard, and new Cityplace condos under construction on the former "railway lands" between Spadina and Bathurst Street (once home to the <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=38600><b>Spadina Coachyards</b></a>, that the VIA TMC replaced in the mid-80's).
Name: Dan Dell'Unto
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 03/07/2008
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 12 Favourites
Most people seem to shoot The Canadian at <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=14678><b>Bathurst Street</b></a> or up at <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=52620><b>Snider</b></a>, catching it departing Union Station isn't as photogenic due to all the pedestrian bridges, the tight corridor, and limited spots to shoot the entire train. However, since we were in the area one afternoon, a late departing #1 offered the opportunity to quickly catch it departing Union Station on its cross-country trip to Vancouver, roughly an hour and a half late (regular departure time 9am).<br><br>Today's consist was lead by VIA F40PH-2D units 6412 and 6404, followed by baggage-dorm 8606, coaches 8103 and 8139, Skyline dome 8517, sleepers Stuart Manor, Craig Manor, Osler Manor, Skyline dome 8500, diner Palliser, sleepers Brant Manor, Lorne Manor, Bell Manor, and dome-observation Waterton Park on the tail end, still under the train shed.
Name: Dan Dell'Unto
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 03/04/2008
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Comments | 14 Favourites
TTC H5 5737 pauses at Eglinton Subway Station, trailing a southbound train on the Yonge portion of the Yonge-University-Spadina line (Line 1 today). Eglinton Subway Station is the only station on the original 1954 Yonge Subway line that retained most of its Vitrolite glass tiles, original to the station's construction. This photo was also shot before the TTC started removing the roof slats above the track area, due to the new TR trains' rooftop HVAC systems blowing all the built-up grime out (the stations looked better with the full roof slats though, the <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=9746><b>unfinished roof look</b></a> left much to be desired).
Name: Dan Dell'Unto
Railway: Toronto Transit Co…
Date: 04/14/2011
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 6 Favourites
Operating on a fantrip to Peterborough, CNR "Bullet-Nose Beatty" 6060 pauses at Scarborough Junction for a photo-op, before leaving the CN Kingston Sub for the Uxbridge Sub and points east.<br><br><i>Mike Mastin photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>
Name: Mike Mastin photo, …
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/18/1976
Location: Toronto (Scarborou…
Province: Ontario
Comments | 16 Favourites
We're bouncing around in speeding cab car 201 of GO Transit train #252 (Bramalea-Union) after crossing the Humber River bridge over its namesake river and the Weston Golf & Country Club, soon to arrive at Weston station. The stretch in the distance from whence we came is the climb to Etobicoke North GO Station at the top of the hill, with overpasses for Islington Avenue and Highway 401 faintly visible. The CN McGill sign goes whizzing by on the right (Mile 9.6 CN Halton Sub), and concrete whistleposts stamped "CNR" by the bridge bear signs warning against trespassing (it's a looooong way down, with no side handrails and only a few of those old water barrel platforms to seek refuge). The golf club also has a private crossing beyond the bridge, so golfers could cross easily from one part of the course to the other.<br><br>The sleepy branchine feel here is gone today, as Metrolinx has since added a few tracks (4 total now) and extra spans to widen the bridge in the early-mid 2010's. The McGill name is also gone, as the new interlocking plant added to the west was named Humberview instead. The private golf crossing has also been replaced with a tunnel under the tracks.<br><br>For a 1970's view near the bridge, see: <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=42775<b>http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=42775</b></a>
Name: Dan Dell'Unto
Railway: GO Transit
Date: 11/26/2007
Location: Toronto (Weston)
Province: Ontario
Comments | 11 Favourites
A double-dose of GE Dash-8's greets us on a somewhat overcast winter's day in downtown Brampton: CN train #393 lead by CN C40-8M 2431 and IC "Blue Devil" C40-8W 2455 approach the interlocking at Peel, on the climb up from Bramalea/Halwest to the now-short single track section in downtown Brampton (double-tracking still not completely finished).<br><br>This exact spot was the "old Peel" location behind The Brick near Kennedy Road and Clarence, as CN had recently moved the interlocking plant a few blocks to the west at Centre Street underpass during the Halton Sub double- and triple-tracking project (but everything still fed through a tiny single track section over the underpass, as the new #1 track to the east was not yet complete). The old yard on the right was once full of autoracks and boxcars for the old AMC Brampton Assembly plant at the south end of the <a href=https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=15922><b>Peel Village Industrial Lead</b></a>, once located at Steeles and Kennedy (built early 1960's, closed 1992). The busy Highway 410 overpass is visible in the distance.
Name: Dan Dell'Unto
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 03/15/2008
Location: Brampton
Province: Ontario
Comments | 9 Favourites
The credentials of VIA F40PH-2D 6449 are visible for all to see on its builder's plate, captured during a station stop at Brampton Station downtown. At the time, the higher-numbered F40 units were western-assigned (out of Vancouver) for The Canadian, and rare to see on corridor trains in the east. <br><br> This "F40PH-2" is serial number A-4850, class GPA-30C (VIA's adoption of CN's diesel classification system), built 6-89 at London (Ontario), Canada. The logos visible are for EMD (Electro-Motive Division), GM (General Motors, parent company), and the Diesel Division of General Motors Canada Ltd (EMD/GM's Canadian branch, sometimes called General Motors Diesel Division - GMDD or DDGM - originally known as General Motors Diesel Ltd (GMD) for many years after the London, Ontario plant opened in 1950). All part of the "GM Locomotive Group" (GMLG - confused yet? All this became EMD when GM sold their locomotive business to Greenbrier). The exact model listed is F40PH-2, but I understand the D was either officially or unofficially added due to its desktop controls (sort of like all the widecab GMD units on CN where the W is not an official GMD or CN designation). All rebuilds became "F40PH-3D". <br><br> There was a well-known roster fellow (who shall not be named) on one of the Locomotive groups online a number of years back that, during a discussion about what VIA's units were actually called, kept rebuking everyone and insisting that the actual designation of VIA's units was just "F40PH". One day I had had enough and posted this photo of 6449's builder's plate clearly showing "F40PH-2", and he got quiet real quick. I guess nobody behind the keyboards bothered to check the builder's plates on them.
Name: Dan Dell'Unto
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 03/15/2008
Location: Brampton
Province: Ontario
Comments | 9 Favourites
12345…►last
]]> http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname/feed 0