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Building Vaughan: Canadian Pacific ES44AC 8731, AC4400CW 9722 and ES44AC 8874 (still painted for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics) wait at Huntington Road light power after deadheading from Toronto Yard, awaiting the o.k. to proceed into Vaughan Intermodal Terminal to lift their train. The lead unit sits between the AEI readers that record and relay the location of any railway equipment entering/exiting VIT.  While this quiet area might have been farmland, cattle grazing and a large intermodal yard in the middle of nowhere 8 years ago, the winds of change are blowing over this northwestern section of Vaughan: road realignments have been made, sprawling neighbourhoods have gone in just to the north off Major Mackenzie Drive (on both sides of the CP MacTier Sub), and the recently announced future extension of Ontario's Highway 427 will cut right through here just behind the locomotives. It's only a matter of time before the new residents on those former farmer's fields get acquainted with the busy 24-7 railway line that's been here for over 100 years...
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Caption: Building Vaughan: Canadian Pacific ES44AC 8731, AC4400CW 9722 and ES44AC 8874 (still painted for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics) wait at Huntington Road light power after deadheading from Toronto Yard, awaiting the o.k. to proceed into Vaughan Intermodal Terminal to lift their train. The lead unit sits between the AEI readers that record and relay the location of any railway equipment entering/exiting VIT.

While this quiet area might have been farmland, cattle grazing and a large intermodal yard in the middle of nowhere 8 years ago, the winds of change are blowing over this northwestern section of Vaughan: road realignments have been made, sprawling neighbourhoods have gone in just to the north off Major Mackenzie Drive (on both sides of the CP MacTier Sub), and the recently announced future extension of Ontario's Highway 427 will cut right through here just behind the locomotives. It's only a matter of time before the new residents on those former farmer's fields get acquainted with the busy 24-7 railway line that's been here for over 100 years...

Photographer:
MrDan [930] (more) (contact)
Date: 10/13/2008 (search)
Railway: Canadian Pacific (search)
Reporting Marks: CP 8731, 9722, 8874 (search)
Train Symbol: CP 105 (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Elder - CP MacTier Sub (search)
City/Town: Vaughan (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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2 Comments
  1. I can remember coming with my dad hauling water into Vaughan when the yard was being constructed it was just a field at the time. It’s sad to in some ways to see some beautiful farmland torn up. Change I guess.

  2. And complain endlessly about the noise………

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