Comments on: After shooting VIA #84 at Fletcher’s Creek, a quick jaunt was made to Mount Pleasant GO station for VIA #85 due in about an hour. Today’s consist, lead by F40PH-2D 6431 and #85′s usual two Budd HEP cars, blasts through Mount Pleasant like a scalded rabbit after ducking under the Bovaird Drive/Highway 7 overpass, hell-bent on exiting the Brampton city limits and hitting its next stop at Georgetown before jumping onto the Guelph Sub at Silver. #85 was usually up to a pretty good clip through here, as passenger track speed was 70 mph and 3000 horsepower was more than enough to get two Budds up the grade from downtown Brampton (I’ve got video of #85 flying through Mississauga Road crossing to the west, for the day Steve makes a railvideos.ca…). In the mid-2000′s, Mount Pleasant GO station was a bleak marker at the edge of civilization at the time: suburban growth encroaching to the east, but all rural farmland to the west and south that was waiting in the wings to be gobbled up and redeveloped. There was no bustling walkable suburban neighbourhoods, no community centre, scant transit services with buses that didn’t seem to want to be there, and a lonely GO station with barely any GO trains and a large empty parking lot (that sometimes had amorous individuals doing things on Sundays, shhh). Some reminders of its past as a small farming hamlet known as “Pleasant” remained, such as the old church and Beckford’s Motel (pictured on the left), both located on the old dead-end alignment of Highway 7 (renamed Salvation Road) before it was bypassed with the current Highway 7 overpass. The only patrons I noted at the motel most days were a few trucks, and after it closed the Urban Explorer crowd did poke around a bit before it was ultimately demolished a few years later. An old 1950′s photo of a CNR Northern passing by in 1958 shows there was likely an Esso gas bar out front of the motel back in the day. Today Mount Pleasant is a happier walkable transit city-type suburban place, where the railfans can graze on the platforms and shoot all sorts of modern CN GE and GO trains without the bleak reminder of suburban progress encroaching on farmland (maybe I just visited on too many cloudy winter days). It’s also a popular humb of ZUM and Brampton Transit activity for the bus foamer types.

Comments on: After shooting VIA #84 at Fletcher’s Creek, a quick jaunt was made to Mount Pleasant GO station for VIA #85 due in about an hour. Today’s consist, lead by F40PH-2D 6431 and #85′s usual two Budd HEP cars, blasts through Mount Pleasant like a scalded rabbit after ducking under the Bovaird Drive/Highway 7 overpass, hell-bent on exiting the Brampton city limits and hitting its next stop at Georgetown before jumping onto the Guelph Sub at Silver. #85 was usually up to a pretty good clip through here, as passenger track speed was 70 mph and 3000 horsepower was more than enough to get two Budds up the grade from downtown Brampton (I’ve got video of #85 flying through Mississauga Road crossing to the west, for the day Steve makes a railvideos.ca…). In the mid-2000′s, Mount Pleasant GO station was a bleak marker at the edge of civilization at the time: suburban growth encroaching to the east, but all rural farmland to the west and south that was waiting in the wings to be gobbled up and redeveloped. There was no bustling walkable suburban neighbourhoods, no community centre, scant transit services with buses that didn’t seem to want to be there, and a lonely GO station with barely any GO trains and a large empty parking lot (that sometimes had amorous individuals doing things on Sundays, shhh). Some reminders of its past as a small farming hamlet known as “Pleasant” remained, such as the old church and Beckford’s Motel (pictured on the left), both located on the old dead-end alignment of Highway 7 (renamed Salvation Road) before it was bypassed with the current Highway 7 overpass. The only patrons I noted at the motel most days were a few trucks, and after it closed the Urban Explorer crowd did poke around a bit before it was ultimately demolished a few years later. An old 1950′s photo of a CNR Northern passing by in 1958 shows there was likely an Esso gas bar out front of the motel back in the day. Today Mount Pleasant is a happier walkable transit city-type suburban place, where the railfans can graze on the platforms and shoot all sorts of modern CN GE and GO trains without the bleak reminder of suburban progress encroaching on farmland (maybe I just visited on too many cloudy winter days). It’s also a popular humb of ZUM and Brampton Transit activity for the bus foamer types. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Sat, 15 Aug 2026 04:45:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1