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Having just made its 6:14pm stop at Downtown Brampton GO/VIA station and now slowly pulling out of the downtown station crossing Mill st, VIA 87 continues its evening run to Sarnia from Union station with P42 #910 as the leader tonight. They are passing by the “coming soon to Downtown” 45 Railroad st Apartments/Condos which are currently being built directly across from the station (as seen in this photo) and by the time this projects all finished we will have 2 ‘twin-like’ looking towers rising 25 & 27 stories in the air out from the original very old beige-coloured Downtown Building at 45 Railroad which was at one point home to ‘The Little Train Shoppe’ which sadly ended up having to permanently close down in the late 2000s as that’s when the building was sold to the developer who is currently working on the apartments now.
Name: Vintage2000
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 08/05/2021
Location: Brampton
Province: Ontario
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Running parallel down the Waterloo Spur Line Trail (note the couple bikers I managed to capture on the right) and about to squeeze though the ‘well known’ Downtown Waterloo King st buildings which have stood here between the spur since at least the 1950s (if not someone please feel free to correct me in the comments), Goderich and Exeter’s Kitchener-Elmira local 584 is seen approaching King street in Uptown Waterloo at 20:19hrs on the 2018 summer solstice with GEXR 2073 leading the way north. Trailing 2073 was 2303 and 3 tanker cars destined to Sulco and Lanxess in Elmira.
Name: Vintage2000
Railway: Goderich-Exeter
Date: 06/21/2018
Location: Waterloo
Province: Ontario
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Making it’s way south towards Streetsville and the CP Galt Sub for the final time, CCGX 4015 is seen passing through the tiny village of Inglewood with light power at 0858 during the Saturday morning of June 30 2018. This was the last day the CANDO short line rail company would operate this line because earlier that year they announced to the public that for ‘personal company reasons’ they just simply choose they no longer wished to operate the OBRY and a couple months prior to this day the Trillium Rail company took over all freight operations on this 36mile short line and as of early 2021, continue to move freight from Mississauga to Orangeville twice a week. <br> Unfortunately though, presently the operations along this 36 mile short line are said to cease entirely by Dec 31 2021 due to financial matters with the Orangeville Township but from a recent newspoint only this past January, apparently a Municipal Transit Company who puts electric buses on rails to help people commute (kind of like a LRT) has shown a bit of interest in purchasing this line from Orangeville thinking that if they could have their rail buses service Mississauga, Brampton and then eventually Orangeville, it’ll eventually earn them some good profit and also benefit the Orangeville town well in the long run, but that was only just a thought, still way too early to raise our hopes, best thing anyone can do now is just take things one day at a time and make sure we get our shots because almost everyone would agree that the ‘always better safe than sorry’ route is always the best way to go!
Name: Vintage2000
Railway: Orangeville-Brampt…
Date: 06/30/2018
Location: Inglewood
Province: Ontario
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Casting a fine reflection under a small swampish-like pond near Palgrave, Canadian Pacific’s Intermodel train 113 from Montreal to Vancouver trundles northbound up the Mactier Sub after having resonantly completed its afternoon’s switching work at the Vaughn Intermodel Yard and are presently cleared from begin-end CTC sign Bolton, all the way up to North Siding Switch Mactier. Time is exactly 1534 on a nice and sunny Saturday afternoon in October!
Name: Vintage2000
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 10/17/2020
Location: Palgrave
Province: Ontario
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With Military Sand 7021 pounding at the lead, CP mixed manifest 421 (Toronto-Winnipeg) rounds the curve just north of Bolton as they approach Humberstation rd and are only just beginning their 2-3day journey up to Winnipeg Manitoba from Toronto. 7021 has recently gone in the hole at Emery to meet Southbound 112 (first siding along this subdivision at about mile 9) and have clearance up to signal 48.8 Baxter, only after making a brief stop at Spence to drop a very long stack of autos from the tail end of this train. Time is 1639
Name: Vintage2000
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 09/15/2020
Location: Bolton
Province: Ontario
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10:24am on a rather cool Friday morning in late September finds GMTX 333 making yet one more run south as usual to the CP Galt Sub in Mississauga from Orangeville to interchange freight with CP. Trailing the mp15ac today were 4 empty covered hoppers from Orangeville (but they’ll add on one more they reach Snelgrove) and train is just about to pass under Regional Road 24 which is only about a km west of the well known ‘Caledon Village’ and half a km south of here lies the famous ‘Forks of the Credit Provincial Park’ which 333 will be passing through in only a couple short minutes. Seeing the tree leaves beginning to change indicates with no doubt that autumn has officially arrived!
Name: Vintage2000
Railway: Orangeville-Brampt…
Date: 09/25/2020
Location: Caledon Village- S…
Province: Ontario
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Under a brilliant august morning sun in Orangeville finds GMTX 333 slowly creeping back towards Orangeville yard approaching Townline rd (right by the station and GO Bus stop) after having just finished its morning switching duties at the north end of Orangeville by Broadway rd. Only one lone empty covered hopper in tow from the Buisness Park today and it came from Rochling Engineering Plastics which is the biggest of the 3 rail customers down there. Once 333 reaches the south end of the yard they’ll then retrieve the 2 empty covered hoppers they pulled from Clorox about an hr earlier (before they ran north to Broadway rd since their spur more or less resides in Orangeville Yard itself and they are actually the second of the 2 biggest Orangeville customers also) and from there they’ll then take the 3 empties back 36 miles south to their owner CP in Mississauga. Time was exactly 0930
Name: Vintage2000
Railway: Orangeville-Brampt…
Date: 08/14/2020
Location: Orangeville
Province: Ontario
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With a nice black cloud overtop of gp9rm 1620 which is almost a guarantee that she just gave a fine smoke show, the daily OSR Guelph switcher has just returned from their day’s work and is backing a string of hoppers down towards another set of freight cars on the Guelph Junction yard siding/passing track as these hoppers are to soon be picked up by a CP local, CP T69 later in the evening. Photo was taken from First Line Nassagaweya Road and this is the OSR job I believe which will be taken over by the GEXR by summers end.
Name: Vintage2000
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 06/12/2020
Location: Campbellville
Province: Ontario
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0723 in the am on Tuesday June 16th finds CN L579 backing down the North Park Industrial Lead by Airport Road and North Park drive (*same Spur which CN intermodel trains use as a Pullback while working the north end of BIT*) to service the local Bramalea/Brampton Chrysler Assembly Plant by delivering to them empty autoracks from MacMillian Yard which they will then use to load up ship their fully completed automobiles out of the plant the next time L579 comes up to service them. The power is CN gp9rm 4138 and GMTX 2289.
Name: Vintage2000
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/16/2020
Location: Brampton
Province: Ontario
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Rolling on southward through the outskirts of Alliston in some pretty nice evening light, a CP CWR Train powered by Heritage Unit 7016, plus 2 sd40-2s trailing the Heritage being CP 6080 and 5871 rolls through some empty farmlands of Beeton approaching 13th Line Road and train is carefully slowing down because once they reach Spence Yard which is actually at the next crossing down from here (12th Line Road), RTC will first have them duck into the yard siding track to meet Northbound 119. After 119 passes they’ll receive permission to pull out on the main for headroom as behind the welded rails they actually had a long stash of autoracks for Spence Yard and once the autoracks have been spotted RTC will have them hold tight in the yard one last time to allow Southbound 112 to pass by ahead of them and once 112 passes, 7016 will finally receive clearance back onto the main and follow 112 the rest of the way to Toronto Yard, arriving there for just about 2200 that night. Timing here was exactly 1947.
Name: Vintage2000
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/08/2020
Location: Alliston
Province: Ontario
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Picking up a little bit of dust it seems (based off of the looks at the right side of the power as well as the boxcars looking somewhat fuzzy), a somewhat rare daytime appearance of CP mixed manifest freight train 420 South from Winnipeg (usually this train comes down the Mactier a couple hrs before sunrise) passes by the MAW’s Fuel Facility in the tiny town of Nashville, (approaching Nashville Road actually), on approach to the major city of Vaughn and just after this train passes through Vaughn; CP 420 will then join onto the North Toronto Sub and follow it the rest of the way to Toronto Yard after about 2 days on the rails I believe. Wonder how old the tall brick building to the right would be? Believe it’s part of the MAW’s Fuels company based off of Google Earth but if anyone knows a bit more about that structure I’ll be interested to hear!
Name: Vintage2000
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/07/2020
Location: Nashville- North o…
Province: Ontario
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Making its way up to Northern Ontario from Toronto along the CP Mactier Sub, Canadian Pacific’s train 421 North makes a brief stop at Spence Yard to drop a couple gondolas from Toronto at 17:16 during the sunny Saturday evening of May 16. Trains final destination is Winnipeg Manitoba and the power on today’s train was a treat also. Behind the ordinary ac4400s finds a somewhat rare CP gp38-2 (for a manifest freight) followed by a even rarer sd60 numbered 6243 in bright red Canadian Pacific Paint. Crossing you can slightly see at the right is 12th Line Road and we are just south of New Tecumseth. <br> And yes, the black Suberu parked at the side of the crossing, right in front of the rare sd60 belongs to me. Hehe, only safe place I could really park at this location. Which is a good thing, safety should always come first. Try to remember that please (to everyone who is reading).
Name: Vintage2000
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 05/16/2020
Location: South of New Tecum…
Province: Ontario
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With engineer Steve Bradley pounding the throttle like any other Tuesday or Friday, 0839hrs on the Friday morning of June 29 2018 finds the very last ever regular freight run of the Orangeville Brampton Railway Short Line freight train under ‘CANDO’ making its way past the tiny town of Snelgrove, on approach to the major city of Brampton with 8 empty freight cars in tow from Orangeville Yard. Train is about to cross Mayfield road and if you look towards the end of the covered hoppers on the right you can slightly spot the Snelgrove siding/run-around track which is still used fairly often up to this day by the Trillium Railway (company which operates this short line today).<br> <br> This was the last regular freight train here under CANDO because early in 2018, the CANDO rail company announced to the public that they made the buisness decision to permanently discontinue operations along the 36 mile Owensound Spur for personal company reasons and set June 30 2018 to be their last day of operations here. Word went around Ontario fast and many of us railfans wondered often about the fate of this short line at that time as as it was honestly quite possible for the 36 mile line to fall completely dormant after June 30th depending on how eager the Township of Orangeville was in terms of finding a new Short Line Operator to keep their railway active but lucky for us, they managed to connect with Trillium Railway in May 2018 and to this present day their mp15ac numbered 333 in Blue GATX paint still operates twice a week (mostly Tuesday’s and Fridays still) moving freight from the CPR Galt Sub in Mississauga, 36 miles north to the Township of Orangeville Ontario to service the last 6 customers along the 36miles left of the CPR Owensound Spur who rely of rail: 4 of which are in Orangeville and 2 more in Brampton. <br> * One last Fun fact, from what I’ve heard from locomotive engineer ‘Steve Bradley’ myself, back when he began OBRY operations in 2000 it was still only these exact 6 buisness’s who were using the rail back then. Havnt lost a single customer so far in just about 20 years (but excluding the Brampton Brick Place who Steve himself said he only serviced once very early in his era as by 2000 they had already found that using containers were the most efficient way for them with regards to shipping their bricks across the country by rail, their spur’s switch had been taken out by 2003).
Name: Vintage2000
Railway: Orangeville-Brampt…
Date: 06/29/2018
Location: Snelgrove
Province: Ontario
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Making their once a week trip down the Torbram Lead to service 4 of the last 7 rail customers between here and the Bramalea Buisness Park right by Queen and Airport ;only a couple blocks from CN’s Brampton Intermodel Yard actually. CN L559 is shown reversing across the busy 5 lane Torbram Road crossing right near Steels Ave as they push today’s freight from MacMillian Yard up to the Buisness Park to service the customers. Powering today’s train was actually a pair of leased blue GATX geeps and if you look at the stripes right above the trucks just before the blue paint, you can notice that the lead unit 2163 actually has a yellow stripe going across like most ordinary CN geeps while the second unit 2289 still has a ordinary white one like most GATXs. Wonder what CNs long-term plan is to do with these GATXs in terms of potentially repainting them into red and white CN or keeping them the way they are and returning them to their original owner when the lease expires? Guess only time will tell, only time will tell.
Name: Vintage2000
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 10/09/2019
Location: Brampton
Province: Ontario
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Now here’s something we definitely don’t see everyday as of the 2020s! A pair of CP sd40s as well as a sd30 being the third unit in today’s consist, leading a ballast train (which also had some mixed freight) down the Mactier Sub from Sudbury, destined to St Luc Quebec. Timing is 12:28 and train is approaching Castlederg side road (just north of Bolton) which has a small little creek-bed lying right next to the tracks on the north side. Powering the train was CP sd40s 6013 and 6045 and then CP sd30C-ECO 5012 for the third unit.
Name: Vintage2000
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 05/01/2020
Location: Palgrave Forest- N…
Province: Ontario
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Going back close to a decade in time: a warm Saturday Afternoon in June of 2011 finds a kid and a train. <br> <br> Yes that’s ME! I had just turned 11 years old at this time and this photo was taken by my dad. Train happened to be GEXR 431 heading home westbound after it’s daily run to MacMillian Yard to interchange freight with CN and the lead unit was FEC 709 which was leased to GEXR from the Florida East Coast for just a little more than 2 years and during that time it very often found on trains 432/431. I was video recording the train as well with my good old Flipvideo Camcorder on my tripod and my fingers were ever so slightly over my ears as this was still a couple months before the older Brampton Diamond got replaced with the quieter type- where only trains traveling along the lesser used Owen Sub rode up and over the rails causing just a slight booming noise since Owen Sub trains are restricted to go no more than 10mph through the Downtown bit of Brampton and big heavy freights traveling fast along the Halton stayed on their own seemless rails. The noise the speeding trains along the Halton made while crossing the diamond before it got replaced was just ‘a little’ sensitive to my ears at first during this time but wasn’t too hard to get used to after the big heavy engines went by. I always sort of missed the welcoming boom-boom as well ever since the new diamond went in but at least I got the memories to hand on to! This also happens to be my 100th image up here on Railpictures.ca!
Name: Scott Johnston- Col…
Railway: Goderich-Exeter
Date: 06/05/2011
Location: Brampton
Province: Ontario
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On what happened to be mostly a cloudy day in March, the sun very slightly peaks out in the evening while CP freight 421 North is seen resting in the hole at Bolton waiting for 118 South to pass. Timing was exactly 17:19 and second unit in today’s power happened to be a really nice looking UP ac4400CW #6555. Wonder if she ever misses the warm weather near California? Lol.
Name: Vintage2000
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 03/24/2020
Location: Bolton
Province: Ontario
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After having just met both southbound trains 112 and 118 in Bolton, a ‘rather later than usual’ CP 113 is back on the move and barrels FAST through some empty farmlands in the eastern side of Caledon as ac4400cw 8145 leads todays Intermodal Northbound up the Mactier Sub up until they reach the northern half of Ontario near Cartier and from there 113 will switch on to the Cartier Sub and follow it ALL THE WAY across Canada westbound until they finally reach 113’s final destination in Coquitlam BC. After about 4 days on the rails.<br> <br> Time was 17:50 and in this scene the train was approaching Castlederg side road which is only about a mile or so past Bolton. This also happened to be the morning the clocks sprang ahead by an hour so even though I may have lost an hour of sleep, the extra hour of sunlight on this fine Sunday afternoon in March totally made up for it as the stars were able to align ever so perfectly for me to grab this nicely light northbound photo just before the sun began to set and from there it was time for me to call it a day and head home for dinner.
Name: Vintage2000
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 03/08/2020
Location: North of Bolton
Province: Ontario
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Working the north end of CN’s Brampton Intermodel Yard on the sunny spring afternoon of May 5 2019, GMTX 2163 and CN gp9rm 7258 with the 15th Anniversary logo are seen shoving a stash of loaded container cars onto the unloading track while yet another CN Gevo is seen slowly approaching the scene on the third main track with yet another container manifest which will soon be unloaded here. <br> If you look towards the containers spotted in the holding tracks behind the yard tramp you’ll also be able to notice the stash of CN buisness coaches resting directly at the start of holding track #6 I believe. Those were set off only a couple hours previously by CN 148 and fellow contributor Steve Host actually managed to shoot them coming down on 148 earlier that day. I’ll make sure to include a link to his photo in the first comment below.
Name: Vintage2000
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/05/2019
Location: Brampton
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 12 Favourites
Making one last trip south to the Galt Sub to grab a couple last minute loads for Orangeville before the Holiday Shutdown, GMTX 333 approaches King st East while running through the farmlands of Caledon on-approach to the major city of Brampton with only one empty tanker car in tow this fine Christmas Eve morning. When today’s train reaches Snelgrove however, they’ll make a brief stop at the run-around track just north of Mayfeild rd as the ITP Armacell Plant in the northern end of Brampton just south of Sandalwood also had a empty hopper ready to be returned to CP and since their switch faces north, 333 will first have to drop the lone tanker car at the run-around and then run light power for about a mile into the Armacell Plant before taking the empty hopper back to Snelgrove and adding it onto today’s southbound train which has now doubled to 2 empties. Timing is 09:05
Name: Vintage2000
Railway: Orangeville-Brampt…
Date: 12/24/2019
Location: Caledon
Province: Ontario
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