The one and only RSD17. Constructed by MLW in 1957, she was initially demonstrated on the CNR (r/n 3899), PGE (r/n 624) and finally the CPR where she found her home in 1959 until retirement in 19... (more)

With a complete train (they didn't have to fill out at Lambton Yard), a CP westbound heads for London on the Galt Sub with an M630 and GMD GP35 5012 on a stormy looking March day back in '79.

To this point, maintaining it's flagship identity, VIA's Canadian, still running on CPR track with CPR stainless equipment and lead by CPR 4069 crosses the West Toronto diamond only a few miles fr... (more)

Chessie System (B&O) GP40 3720, CP GMD/CP SW9u 1205 and CP GMD/CP GP7u 1501 former CP GP7 8410, at CP's Agincourt Yard, Ontario.

Within the first few months of the VIA takeover of passenger services (jan 12, 1977), CN and CP's power continued to haul Canada's passenger trains. CN 6790 arrives from Montreal with an A-B-A s... (more)

Sitting ready for dispatch to a westbound train, CN FPA4 and FPB4 sit outside the Spadina shops.

Canadian National CLC H16-44 numbers 2200-2217, built 1955. Retired in 1966-1967. Photo part of my collection, no photographer listed.

Lineup of ALCo and MLW S2s and S4s await dispatch to their respective local and industrial jobs at the Lambton Yard shop tracks. Lambton Shops were, at this point was primarily used for Toronto/... (more)

A CN detour train on Metrolinx owned track with a CP leader, this is what it's all about. CN has detoured a few trains over the CPR to get some standing traffic moving and as we see one slogging u... (more)

Creating it's own blizzard, a YYZ bound UPX train zips past one of the last CN detours to Montreal via the CPR to use the Weston Sub.

After working Lambton Yard for over an hour and change, Toronto to CSXT Frontier Yard train 246 is well under way trying to accelerate up to track speed with 12,000 tons of mix freight.

"This River I Step In, Is not The River I Stand in". Perhaps the most appropriate statement to describe fluid state of electric traction in North America, it was a phrase affixed to the ... (more)

The Canadian National amassed one of the largest fleets of Budd RDCs anywhere, with 47 cars of five models, most bought new in the 1950s but some added secondhand. A set of Railiners, as CN dubbed... (more)

My father and I had high hopes for MLW-hauled passenger trains on our trip to Toronto in 1984. The FPA-4's were indeed plentiful from the renowned vantage point of the Spadina Avenue bridge. Unf... (more)