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MrDan — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 07:02:03 +0000

head down the ramp into the St. Clair West Subway Station's underground bus and streetcar loop. Part of a newer CLRV streetcar is visible behind, heading westbound on St. Clair.

4546 was retired in 1990 and selected by the TTC to be rebuilt as part of the 23 4600-series PCC A15-class. But, the program was cancelled after only 19 cars, and unrebuilt 4546 was later sold for scrap to Future Enterprises in Hamilton.

Dennis Cowley photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Dennis Cowley photo…
Railway:	Toronto Transit Co…
Date:	08/20/1986
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

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John Eull photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	John Eull photo, Da…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	07/18/1993
Location:	Scarborough (Toron…
Province:	Ontario

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ore docks in Thunder Bay, CN kept a handful of its BB-trucked steam generator equipped GMD GMD-1 units in the Toronto area for passenger and freight service. Numbered CN 1900-1917, the first four were Winnipeg-assigned units, while the rest were based out of Spadina Roundhouse in downtown Toronto. The Toronto units were sent packing to Thunder Bay in 1971 (based out of the roundhouse at Neebing Yard) for transfer and switching duties, and had their steam generators deactivated at the same time.

In this undated late 1960's-ish shot, CN GMD-1's 1908 and 1915 head westbound on the Oakville Sub in the evening, cruising under the old Plains Road bridge on the approach to Bayview Junction (the old bridge here would be replaced by a new concrete structure in 1973). I'd hazard a guess this was likely an evening Toronto-Hamilton-Niagara Falls commuter train. Those red snowshields bolted to the front stanchions were a late 60's thing a few of the GMD-1's received (at least two, 1908-1909), likely to keep snow from building up around the front radiator shutters and freezing them up while leading passenger trains at speed in the winter months. Others had a roll-down winterization flap added to the top of the radiator grill.

Original photographer unknown, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide (duplicate).' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Unknown, Dan Dell'U…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	Circa late 1960's
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

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Bill McArthur photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Bill McArthur photo…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	07/13/1977
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

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Malport Yard.

On the left, out of view in the field next to the photographer, there was once a lumber yard back in the 70's called Lampton Lumber with a siding, that has since all but vanished. There were once about four lumber yards in this immediate area of Bramalea back in the more rural days (see aerials here and here), all with rail sidings: Lampton Lumber here, Weston Road Lumber on the other side of the tracks to the south (still present today as Weston Forest Products), Malton Lumber (ex-Reid & Co./Lauder Boake Lumber) off Bramalea Road immediately south of Halwest, and Cashway Lumber (L.W. Larkin) that used to be at the present Bramalea GO station site. The encroachment of one-stop-shop big box building improvement stores such as Aikenheads, Home Depot and Lowes in the 90's no doubt contributed to the decline of the local small-town lumber yards.

Original photographer unknown, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.

(This unlabeled slide (possibly taken by the late Keith Hansen) had no location given, but sometimes one just recognizes a spot).' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Unknown, Dan Dell'U…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	Circa June 1990
Location:	Brampton (Bramalea…
Province:	Ontario

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I had shot this train coming down through downtown Brampton down at the diamond, and beat it down to Streetsville just as it was arriving, nabbing it at Alpha Mills Road. Since the train was tying up Mississauga Road making its setoff, I remember I had to quickly loop around some of the side streets, swiftly park and bail out at the now-closed Streetsville Beer Store (there's a politician somewhere to blame for that), and then walk out into traffic for this quick "Don't get hit by a car today Dan" shot, as the Geep was just backing into the clear, I needed to be on the left side of the road, and oncoming traffic was getting impatient. After a few more photos here, it was back up to Brampton just in time for VIA #85 and the northbound OBRY run returning back to Orangeville (with no time for a quick stop at Credit Valley in downtown Streetsville for more Intermountain hoppers today).' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Dan Dell'Unto
Railway:	Orangeville-Brampt…
Date:	10/19/2007
Location:	Mississauga (Stree…
Province:	Ontario

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Peel and Brampton East interlockings and into downtown Brampton for its final stop.

This particular consist kept itself busy all day: it would enter service in the morning as southbound train #830 on the Richmond Hill line, do a stint on the Lakeshore line as train #908 from Burlington to Oshawa, deadhead to Bramalea, then spend all afternoon running the afternoon Bramalea trains back and forth from Toronto (#251, 254, 257, 260, 263, 266) before a final run as #281 punching through into downtown Brampton, and deadheading back to Toronto for its last assignment as #864 up the Stouffville line.' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Dan Dell'Unto
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	10/26/2007
Location:	Brampton (Bramalea…
Province:	Ontario

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Keith Hansen photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Keith Hansen photo,…
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	Circa July 1984
Location:	Cobourg
Province:	Ontario

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self-powered Hawker Siddeley cars (D100-D108, later 9825-9833) to cover those runs. Unfortunately, those cars were late to be delivered, and since they were a new design of unknown reliability, had to be tested and troubleshot before being put into service (and according to the old "Building GO Transit" article there were problems, notably with the English-made Rolls-Royce engines constantly shutting down). So as an interim measure, the Ontario government borrowed two sets of conventional trains from Ontario Northland, composed of an FP7 at each end of 5 or so older coaches.

GO experimented with various configurations, including both FP7's at one end, and one FP7 per end but only one powering the train in each direction, and determined both units had to be online and providing power to maintain the tight commuter schedules. The solution reached was an FP7 at both ends connected with long MU cables running along the coaches, enabling both units to be online and respond as one. The two Ontario Northland consists operated in GO service during 1967-1968. Two "Progressive" paint scheme units (1517 and 1521) were among the ONR FP7's that did time on these trains. The self-powered cars coming online and a follow-up order for 14 more unpowered coaches in 1968 seemed to alleviate the equipment shortage, and the ONR consists were returned.

The self-powered cars proved to be more troublesome than they were worth, and GO neutered them by depowering all nine and converting them into regular cab cars. Some of those Ontario Northland F's would come back in the 70's as unpowered control cab/generator cars (APCU's), rebuilt for GO by Ontario Northland.

This photo spot is around the northeast end of the old Willowbrook Yard shop buildings (the former CN Mimico Yard car repair shop that GO originally took over) just east of present-day Islington Avenue, where the UPX servicing shop is today. The blue pickup truck in the background sits by a CN service track that ran along the north end of the yard, formerly CN's Oakville Sub mainline right-of-way until it was relocated to the middle of the yards concurrent with GO establishing facilities here. In the far distance are the old Ontario Ministry of Transport buildings that were used for ambulance upfitting for sale to municipalities across the province for many decades.

Original photographer unknown, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide (duplicate).' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Unknown, Dan Dell'U…
Railway:	Ontario Northland
Date:	Circa September 1968
Location:	Toronto (Mimico)
Province:	Ontario

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the return trip onto a cut of cars in the yard. Conductor Steve Bradley is diligently riding the end of the hopper to make the joint, while engineer Wayne leans out of the cab window and works the controls of his 1957 London-built steed. A fuel truck from the local fuel dealer would soon show up to fill the Geep, and after some light servicing by the crew, 1000 would be put away for the day. In the background, ex-VIA Rail RDC-9 6006 sits on the station track coupled to the rest of the Credit Valley Explorer consist, that was receiving some attention from a few individuals before its next upcoming tourist excursion.' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Dan Dell'Unto
Railway:	Orangeville-Brampt…
Date:	04/20/2007
Location:	Orangeville
Province:	Ontario

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CCGX GP9 1000 leading its consist full of excursion riders through the rolling hills of the Osprey Valley Golf Course and Caledon countryside, heading southbound from Orangeville to Inglewood and back. The consist is the usual three cars used at the time: 1978, 2003 and 3247, all former CN/VIA passenger cars.

On this muggy morning there was a surprise CP GP9u up in the yard at Orangeville (8248!) but it appeared that whatever issue there might have been before with CCGX 1000 had been fixed, and it lead the CVE on this day while the borrowed 8248 slumbered in the yard, waiting to be returned to CP the next week. ' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Dan Dell'Unto
Railway:	Orangeville-Brampt…
Date:	06/02/2007
Location:	Caledon (Alton)
Province:	Ontario

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yesterday, so that was nice.

Since there weren't that many wide-open spots downtown, we perched ourselves on our favourite little hill near the Centre St. underpass by the "new" CN Peel interlocking, decently wide-open and right across from the emergency department entrance behind the old Peel Memorial Hospital (established in stuffy 1925, just freshly closed at the end of October 2007), not far from Ardglen Drive (that had a reputation I didn't stick around to find out) and Trueman Street (also unsavoury). Lighting around 2:40pm in late November was "be happy this is what you get, it could be snowing".

After the CN RTC squeezed an unremarkable CN #398 through Peel, right on his tail were three of GEXR's best stray dogs of the pack, RLK GP35 2211 (ex-CP 5010), GP40 4096 (ex-CN 9306) and LLPX GP38-2 2236 (ex-LIRR 262) doing the honours of hauling the #432 "export special", made up of five shiny blue and white EMD GT36HCW units for Algerian National Railways/SNTF, and four white GT42CWRM "Class 66" units for Euro Cargo Rail in the UK (I shot so many of those back then that they became somewhat boring), plus EMD idler flats. My notes indicate the exact units today were SNTF 060DS02, 060DS03, 060DS04, 060DS05, 060DS06, EWS (ECR) 077006, 077007, 077008, and 077009 (the ECR's were lettered but unnumbered, so their order may be scrambled for confusion). It still wasn't wide-open enough here to get the whole train, but we did get individual shots of all the units.

After 432's passing, we made our way to the VIA/GO station downtown on foot for a CN #399 and #148, before dining on Brampton's finest pizza west of the 410 (Gusto's, tell them Dan sent you) and made our way back home.' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Dan Dell'Unto
Railway:	Goderich-Exeter
Date:	11/25/2007
Location:	Brampton
Province:	Ontario

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GO's nine self-propelled single-level cars (D700-D708, later 9825-9833) were intended for covering regular and off-peak service, with the idea that the rest of the Hawker Siddeley fleet could be converted to self-propelled cars if they proved to be reliable. But, due to ongoing reliability issues with the Rolls-Royce engines, they were eventually all depowered in the mid-70's and used as regular cab cars. 9826 (built as D701) was one of two built with a cab at each end, designated RTC-85SPD. It was sold to Ontario Northland in 1985 and converted into lunch-counter coach 701.

Original photographer unknown, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Unknown, Dan Dell'U…
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	Circa June 1975
Location:	Toronto (Scarborou…
Province:	Ontario

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diamond. The old station had previously been under threat of demolition by CP, but was disassembled and removed off-site for future preservation in 1981 by the local historical society. Despite the station's absence, the station grounds here still had a passing track, back track, and ramp/team track. There once was a ramp just north of the station with its own siding, but at some point the old freight shed and loading platform on the right had been knocked down and converted to a ramp, and remained so into the OBRY era (as did some of the siding tracks).

The three empty flatcars behind the power were likely bound for the Brampton Caterpillar plant at Sandalwood Parkway near the Heart Lake community. The new Cat plant had opened two years prior in 1983 (its manufacturing operations had been moved from Cat's old Mississauga plant in the Dixie area) for the assembly of small rubber-tired loaders and logging skidders (often shipped out of the plant on flatcars), but would close in 1992 during a round of plant consolidations due to the economic slump.

The 80's and 90's were a time for the C424's to shine in branchline service, as part of CP's 10 Year Locomotive Program, they were modified from Diesel Road Freight (DRF) to Diesel Road Switcher (DRS) in the early 80's for service on branchlines as roadswitchers (along with the GP30 and GP35 units), to replace some of CP's aging 4-axle 1st generation GMD and MLW power either being rebuilt as yard units, or retired (brand new GP38-2 units were also acquired to help with the displacement). The final C424 units were retired in 1998.

Flowerlea Dairy, in business at 6 Park Street on the left, was established in 1962 when a group of local milk producers purchased the old Pocock Dairy operations (est. 1920). They grew over the years and acquired Bolton Dairy in 1973, and also ran a distribution operation called Dairyland Transport Co-op. The Park Street location in downtown Brampton was their main milk bottling and distribution facility. Flowerlea's history is a little hard to trace in later years, but it appears its operations were sold to Saputo around 1993.

Peter Jobe photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Peter Jobe photo, D…
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/25/1985
Location:	Brampton
Province:	Ontario

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Name:	Dan Dell'Unto
Railway:	Toronto Transit Co…
Date:	04/27/2007
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

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here).

Original photographer unknown (possibly a John H. Eagle photo), Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Unknown, Dan Dell'U…
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	Circa September 1971
Location:	Pickering
Province:	Ontario

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view of the old retro 70's GO Transit concourse in the basement of Toronto Union Station (1979-2015) off Bay Street, looking east from the stairs leading down near the entrance from the VIA arrivals concourse (right by the McDonalds). It's just after 10pm and patronage is a bit lighter, with only a small handful of GO buses and trains shown on the screens waiting departure (evenings were the best for these kinds of photos, that both avoided the crowds and security). Most retail stores and restaurants here were winding down operations for the night, with a few convenient staples like the Gateway Newstands still open. Some of the GO ticket booths are visible in the distance, near the Bell payphones(!). Since this was the early days of PRESTO, there were still lots of POP ticket stamping machines in abundance to punch your 10-ride or your 2-ride.' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Dan Dell'Unto
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	05/26/2011
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

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other ways to shoot F59's under the train shed.

I believe 525 and the first order (520-535) were rebuilt at AMF in Montreal, which was why they received those CN font numberboards, while 541 was a later rebuild done at CAD or CLN and got that larger font style. 525 is now pushing Dallas area commuters around Texas as Trinity Railway Express 120, while 541 is doing the same in North Carolina as NC DOT control cab 102.' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Dan Dell'Unto
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	04/27/2007
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

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CP #137 with a pair of SD40-2 units passed by. And earlier, CP transfer #T56 showed up with the ratty ex-Guilford 4652 leading.

When the great Red Barn fleet fell, CP 9012 was sold to J&L Consulting for scrap in late 2016, but 9022 (one of only two repainted in the dual flags "System" livery) found its way back to CP after a stint operating on the Central Maine & Quebec Ry with a few other lucky SD40-2F survivors. 5746 was sold to K&K Recycling to become soup cans and new Hondas in 2017.' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Dan Dell'Unto
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/07/2008
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

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Name:	Dan Dell'Unto
Railway:	Toronto Transit Co…
Date:	10/19/2011
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

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