Comments on: After meeting a southbound freight at Oriole, CNR 6167 has made its way down the CNR Leaside Branch and is seen crossing over the Don Valley en route to Leaside for the town’s 50th Anniversary, founded April 23, 1913 by the Canadian Northern Railway. Scan and editing by Jacob Patterson.

By: railwayguy

railwayguy — Sat, 10 May 2025 02:06:13 +0000

When attending University of Toronto in the late 1950’s, in nice weather, I would walk down Avenue Rd to lectures and would see now and again a CNR 0-8-0 with freight cars shuffling along on the north side of CPR North Toronto Sub. It was my understanding that CN had acquired the CNorR running rights to operate over the CPR North Toronto Sub as far west as TTC’s Hillcrest Shops on the west side of Bathurst St. Am not sure, but believe CNorR had an overnight passenger train that departed from CPR’s Yonge-Summerhill Station for Ottawa and then on to Montreal up to 1921.

By: sdfourty

sdfourty — Sat, 03 May 2025 20:03:54 +0000

Very Neat.
The Duncan / Oriole cut off, ex CNoR trackage. Leaside was the location of the CNoR locomotive and car shops. Locomotive shop building is now a grocery store.
CN Leaside serviced daily Monday to Friday, sometimes Saturday through the eighties. A major customer, Canada Wire and Cable (Noranda Inc.) was acquired by Alcatel (French) in 1996 and moved operations to Markam. CN Leaside spur pulled up 1999.
I have witnessed CN power in the CP Leaside yard as far west as the Leaside crossovers, and I was told that CN (through CNoR running rights) has running rights on the CP Belleville and North Toronto Subs north track Donlands to CP North Toronto station site.
sdfourty

By: Jacob Patterson

Jacob Patterson — Thu, 01 May 2025 07:09:29 +0000

Great scene, John. How often was CN going down the branch to service Leaside by this time?