Caption: Downtown Toronto wasn't all passenger power and coachyards: CN SW9 7001 switches covered hoppers just east of Bathurst Street bridge (Cabin D interlocking), in a view looking south to the Gardiner Expressway and harbourfront area (today, this is all condos).

The white building is CN's Yard office, the train is on the lead that curved south under the Gardiner and lead to the Central Harbour District and Queen's Quay harbourfront trackage, including Loblaws (part of their warehouse on the right) and the Canada Malting grain elevator (further back). Piggyback flats, boxcars and cylindrical covered hoppers pack the team tracks, storage tracks, piggyback ramps, and Cottrell Forwarding freight LCL platforms scattered here.

The lead on the right curving past Loblaws (note crossbucks) connects to the CP ex-TG&B Wharf Leaf that ducked out of view under Bathurst Street, passed through CP's Fez City Yard, under the Gardiner past Molson's, across the Oakville Sub at Cabin E interlocking, and on to the Liberty Village and Parkdale Yard areas (this was CP's western access to the downtown harbourfront industrial trackage).

On the left, tracks lead to Union Station, CN Spadina Roundhouse/Coachyard, and the "high line" mainline freight bypass.

Original photographer unknown, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.