Comments on: A pair of CP Rail MLW switchers, S4 7107 and S2 7063, hustle their way north up the Don Branch (CP Belleville Sub) past a section house at Don, ducking under the Eastern Avenue bridge spanning the railway corridor and Don River. The trailing unit didn’t have MU, so this could be a light power move from John Street north to Agincourt Yard. The trackage to the right leads across Bayview Avenue to the nearby S. McCord concrete plant (note the neat cutouts on the signal targets to clear rail equipment on the siding). CN’s Bala Sub runs in the middle, with crossover tracks visible here allowing CP to cross CN and access the old CN and CP Cherry Street yards in the West Donlands industrial area, that branched out just to the south of here (much still intact at the time, but removed in the 90′s). Today the former CP Don Branch sits unused awaiting future GO use, while the Bala Sub next to it sees normal GO and VIA passenger activity. Keith Hansen photo, Dan Dell’Unto collection slide.

By: RonaldB

RonaldB — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 18:08:06 +0000

This movement was probably the “push”. They sometimes called 2 engineers for this to ferry power only around Toronto Terminals. They were likely taking this power from John Street to Toronto Yard at Agincourt. As an example, the push sometimes handled the GO units leased on weekends, from Mimico to Agincourt Fridays & back Sunday night.

By: MrDan

MrDan — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 00:01:53 +0000

Thanks Liam, I figured with all the VIA detour shots up the Bala, some might like this one.

By: trainsintoronto

trainsintoronto — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 03:23:10 +0000

What a beautiful shot, thanks for sharing Dan.