Comments on: A short GO Transit consist lingers at the west end of Willowbrook Yard, made up of GO GP40TC 505 and four bilevels including a cab car. This consist is a little bit smaller than a regular revenue train, perhaps it was a special or test train for some occasion. The red K3L air horn suggests a swap by CP shop forces at some point, possibly while it was leased to CP in freight service. In the background, the tall chain-link fences of the Mimico Correctional Centre off Horner Avenue can be seen. One of eight specially-built GP40TC (Toronto Commuter) locomotives dating from 1966, at this point in 1988 they were all on borrowed time. With new GMD F59PH units rolling off the assembly line in London, GO 505 and her siblings had already been put up for sale earlier that year in May, and would depart for Amtrak in October, hastily renumbered into their new numbers 192-199. Peter Jobe photo, Dan Dell’Unto collection slide.

Comments on: A short GO Transit consist lingers at the west end of Willowbrook Yard, made up of GO GP40TC 505 and four bilevels including a cab car. This consist is a little bit smaller than a regular revenue train, perhaps it was a special or test train for some occasion. The red K3L air horn suggests a swap by CP shop forces at some point, possibly while it was leased to CP in freight service. In the background, the tall chain-link fences of the Mimico Correctional Centre off Horner Avenue can be seen. One of eight specially-built GP40TC (Toronto Commuter) locomotives dating from 1966, at this point in 1988 they were all on borrowed time. With new GMD F59PH units rolling off the assembly line in London, GO 505 and her siblings had already been put up for sale earlier that year in May, and would depart for Amtrak in October, hastily renumbered into their new numbers 192-199. Peter Jobe photo, Dan Dell’Unto collection slide. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:30:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1