Comments on: A short train of GO Transit single-level Hawker Siddeley cars (“GO Karts”) pulls out of the commuter lead at Pickering GO Station, heading westbound on the CN Kingston Sub in Lakeshore line service. GO cab car 9855 leads two other cars, with GP40TC 9807 pushing on the tail end (locomotive view here).Original photographer unknown (possibly a John H. Eagle photo), Dan Dell’Unto collection slide.

By: Eric May

Eric May — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:30:34 +0000

If you were lucky, the engineer would have the cab door open to give you a real front row experience.

By: sdfourty

sdfourty — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:16:46 +0000

Great forward view – for passengers – from those HS control cab cars. Standing at the top of the stairs, with only those flimsey folding doors at the bottom of those steep steps… quite the 80+ mph (130 kph kilometre-eze) ride down Danforth Hill into the curve at the site of the old Riverdale station and a quick slow down to 30 onto TTR trackage at the Cherry Street Tower….

By: Eric May

Eric May — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:56:41 +0000

Thanks for posting this shot from the early days.

By: Todd Steinman

Todd Steinman — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:07:48 +0000

It certainly has! Crazy to think of there once being all this empty ‘space’. Now all built up, with infrastructure upgraded in the whole scheme of things, too (GO / Metrolinx included).

By: MrDan

MrDan — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:06:17 +0000

Pickering has come a long way!

By: Todd Steinman

Todd Steinman — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:27:04 +0000

That’s Pickering??? Wow…

Great photo.