Comments on: This image of the CN Spadina engine terminal is from Toronto in June 1972. The green and yellow units are MLW locomotives destined for Mexico.

By: mercer

mercer — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 16:32:18 +0000

I remember these being shipped and the only reason I can figure they’d be downtown, is the financing wasn’t yet completed so they might’ve been stored temporarily.
497 still ran ( Toronto-Sarnia via the Bala Sub etc) so he could easily lift these when they were released, either at the Don, or at Bathurst.

By: MrDan

MrDan — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:57:15 +0000

That’s a good question. I have a slide here of FCP 651 and 652 posed together at CN’s MacMillan (Toronto) Yard taken the same month/year.

You’d think they’d skip Spadina roundhouse on their trip enroute to the US/Mexico.

By: Driver8666

Driver8666 — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:21:51 +0000

Too much gentrification Mr. Mooney.

Wonder why MLW locomotives for Mexico ended up there?

By: awmooney

awmooney — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 12:44:45 +0000

It never fails to amaze me that all of this is gone. Even the Royal York is literally buried in condo towers and office buildings. This just does not seem all that long ago………..