Caption:
Where the Belleville and Bala begin & end.
Where Don station location has two mileages:
Mile 2.0, the CN Bala Subdivision.
Mile 209.6, the CP Rail Belleville Subdivision.
At left for the Belleville Subdivision, beside the phone boxes and the CP Rail 'end CTC' vertical sign, is the CP Rail dispatcher controlled eastbound searchlights,
The westbound gantry signals for the Belleville Subdivision (signal #205) and southbound gantry signals for the Bala Subdivision (signal #206) are controlled by the Leverman at the Toronto Terminals Railway Cherry Street tower. At right, note the CN 'end CTC' sign.
Passing under the Queen Street East bridge ( note the TTC overhead cantenary = Bruce), GMD 1954 built FP9A 6510 leads the daily VIA #9, the Toronto section of the Canadian Canadien, to a 19:50 arrival at CP Sudbury to join with Train #1 originating from Montreal CN Central station.
VIA #9 at CN Don, (CP Don), TTR Don, January 31, 1987 Kodachrome by S.Danko
More Bala Canadian Canadien:
Bala at Leaside Bridge
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Who was the other photographer in the picture??
Good question: unknown. In fact there were at least four photographers….gotta wonder what happens to all those diapositives and negatives…
sdfourty
I am wondering if it is John Carter??
Ah yes… before God abandoned us.