Comments on: Ducking under Liverpool Road overpass, GO Transit GP40TC 9807 trails a westbound 3-car consist of Hawkers (with cab car 9855 leading) that has just departed Pickering GO Station, and is heading through the plant at “Liverpool” on CN’s Kingston Subdivision. As GO was still in its infancy, Pickering was the easternmost station on its initial Oakville-Pickering Lakeshore corridor, and the GO Sub didn’t exist yet. The track branching off to the right on the incline is CN’s York Sub, part of the “Toronto Bypass” project that helped divert CN freight traffic around Toronto and made a new GO commuter service possible. Original photographer unknown, Dan Dell’Unto collection slide.

By: MatterWood

MatterWood — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:22:28 +0000

@dwarne, Up until last year there was one on the South Connecting Track just Westside of Union Station, it was very slow track but it was still CTC territory so it felt a little weird to drive on, no TOP required but you better have been damn sure you weren’t going to come face to face with anything.. Given the year this was taken I would be shocked if any form of protection would have been necessary.

By: dwarne

dwarne — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:06:35 +0000

Hmmm, a gantlet road crossing for the signal maintainer, how many instances of that are still around. Would that be allowed without a TOP?