Caption: A westbound CN Tempo Train out of Union Station, lead by RS18 3150, speeds through the new Exhibition GO Station on the north passenger main track. Cars from annual fall Canadian National Exhibition patrons pack the parking lot between CN's Oakville Sub rail corridor and the Gardiner Expressway, including a farm tractor (probably not a regular GO commuter)! The top of the CNE's Ricoh Coliseum can be seen in the background. The double-wide pedestrian bridge to the north platform was built when the station opened, but by the late 90's was removed in favour of an underpass.

GO Transit's new Exhibition Station at this spot opened north of the CNE and south of Liberty Village sometime between September 1968 (after the 1968 CNE) and November 1968. The old CN steam-era Exhibition Station to the west at Dufferin Street was briefly used by GO in 1967-1968, but due to the poor setup of the old station handling large seasonal CNE passenger volumes, a new station was built to the east. At the time of this photo, the CNE still had a pair of rail siding of its own to the southeast of the new station for parking rail equipment.

CN Oakville Sub car control diagrams from 1970 show the two middle tracks referred to as passenger mainlines, and the two outer tracks as freight mainlines (presumably used by GO as well). At the bottom are storage tracks for a small CN Strachan yard, at the foot of the Liberty Village industrial area that was still full of sprawling spurs and sidings serving the likes of John Inglis, Canadian General Electric, and Toronto Carpet Manufacturing. This area was referred to in timetables as the "Jefferson Avenue District". Today of course, the area has been highly gentrified with new highrise condos mixed in with old industrial apartment/loft/condo conversions.

Original photographer unknown, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.