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MrDan is an avid photographer, railfan, modeller and slide collector with an interest in rail photography, prototype operations, equipment information, urban transportation and model railroading. He also assists the RP.ca moderation team, as well as has helped in the past model railroad manufacturers with research and development of various rail-related models and projects. He has had a number of photographs appear in magazines, books, advertisements and used by historical groups. As per RP.ca's photo use guidelines, all photos uploaded by this user are not to be used for commercial and other purposes unless prior written permission has been obtained (but link sharing to the photo's page is welcome and encouraged). Original photographer credit is noted for any collection slide uploads whenever possible. ***Images posted including (those collection slide images) are not to be reused in any publication, both print or online, without prior permission***

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Borrowed Chessie power was common on CP around this time, and four such units are shown loaning their horsepower here: Chesapeake & Ohio GP30 units 3006 & 3002 (the latter in the newer Chessie System colours) sandwich GP35's 3526 & 3539 on CP freight #52, rolling past the fields at Puslinch on CP's Galt Subdivision. C&O purchased a sizable quantity of GP30 units, EMD's stylish 2250hp turbocharged second generation 4-axle model of the early 60's, and followed up with more of the upgraded GP35 model (that boosed the 567D to 2500hp, but did away with the extra styling). They were both commom mainline power on <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=14951><b>C&O's own lines</b></a> in southern Ontario too.

Name:	Reg Button photo, D…
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/21/1979
Location:	Puslinch
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 18 Favourites

Early bird gets the BUCP: Reg was at the Bayview Junction footbridge one morning to catch CP's BUCP freight (CR Buffalo to CP Toronto Yard) rolling through Bayview Junction, using trackage rights over CN's Oakville Sub to Canpa. CP rebuilt GP9u 8206 leads RS18u units 1805 & 1807, with a lengthy train stretched out under the York Blvd. bridge coming off CP at Hamilton Junction.

Name:	Reg Button photo, D…
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/18/1989
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 16 Favourites

Trailing a short 4-car train of Hawker Siddeley single level commuter cars, GO Transit GP40TC 502 pushes eastward out of Union Station past the east switches of the "High Line" near the TTR Scott Street interlocking tower. One can see some of the industrial lands at the left that once populated the "West Donlands" area east of Yonge Street.
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<i>Bill McArthur photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>

Name:	Bill McArthur photo…
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	December 1977
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 13 Favourites

GO Transit GP40-2W 707 leads a 10-car train of bilevel commuter cars through Burlington West bound for Hamilton, after making its station stop at the nearby Burlington GO station. Cab car 205 trails the lead unit, and a 900-series APCU brings up the rear. The two tracks on the left are for CN's Halton Sub mainlines, branching off from the Oakville Sub here.
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The <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=34977
><b>old station</b></a> (hidden by the train) was still in use by VIA at the time, but VIA would soon move its operations to the nearby GO station in another two years. Orange CN maintenance of way equipment sits stored on the Burlington West back tracks.
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<i>Bill McArthur photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>

Name:	Bill McArthur photo…
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	05/29/1986
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 15 Favourites

VIA RDC-2 6224 leads three other sister RDC's on a westbound passenger run near Bayview Junction, about to pass under Plains Rd. bridge. This is likely a Toronto-Niagara Falls train.
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VIA 6224 has a bit of an interesting history, part of it evident in this photo. She was built as CP RDC-3 9023 by Budd in March 1955, later becoming part of VIA in September 1978. 9023 (still operating under CP colours for VIA) was wrecked at LaCombe AB in April 1980 (probably at a grade crossing accident while on the Calgary-Edmonton Budd run) and was repaired and repainted/renumbered as VIA 6357 by CN's Transcona Shops. 6357 didn't last long, as the unit was involved in another wreck at Balzac AB in August 1981, and this time Transcona repaired the car but also rebuilt it as RDC-2 6224 (a common conversion at the time that many VIA's RDC-3 units underwent: the RDC-2 featured more seating and a smaller baggage area). It was probably because of this latest accident that 6224 received its visibly noticeable carbody warping and sag, but the car soldiered on for VIA until retirement sometime in the 90's and was sold to Industrial Rail Services (IRSI) of Moncton NB in 2000. There it sat with many other RDC units as possible rebuild fodder, until IRSI experienced financial difficulties in the mid-2010's and most of the fleet was cut up for scrap metal. 6224 was finally cut up for scrap in January 2016.
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<i>Bill McArthur photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>

Name:	Bill McArthur photo…
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	08/04/1989
Location:	Burlington
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 15 Favourites

Exercising trackage rights over CN to get to Nanticoke, CP RS18 8791 and leased C&O GP38 4828 lead a CP-TH&B Steel Train eastbound on CN's Cayuga Subdivision through Jarvis, just about to hit the Main St. N. crossing at the north end of town. The train came off CP (the old LE&N trackage) at Simcoe, and is heading eastbound over CN's Cayuga Sub between Simcoe and Garnett (east of Jarvis), where it will take CN's Nanticoke Sub south.
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<i>Reg Button photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>

Name:	Reg Button photo, D…
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/17/1984
Location:	Jarvis
Province:	Ontario

6 Comments | 26 Favourites

It's a busy afternoon down at the TTC's Humber Loop, one of the two west-end terminuses of the Queen streetcar line, and long a notable interchange point between TTC streetcars and buses in southern Etobicoke. Here, TTC PCC 4391 (middle) takes on a load of passengers next to the waiting room building before beginning its trip back east along Queen to Neville Loop. Inbound 4426 (right) waits behind, and on the left another 4400-series car (4415?) sits on the other loop track for a trip further west to Long Branch Loop. A TTC GM "fishbowl" bus on a connecting route sits behind the waiting building in the bus loop. All of this is viewed from the embankment of CN's Oakville Sub to the south.
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<i>Original photographer unknown, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>

Name:	unknown, Dan Dell'U…
Railway:	Toronto Transit Co…
Date:	Circa October 1977
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 12 Favourites

<b>CN's Oakville Yard back in the day</b>: CN SW1200 7020 works the west end of Oakville Yard, switching a cut of empty open autoracks over Chartwell Road grade crossing and under the signal bridge spanning the yard lead and CN's multi-track Oakville Subdivision mainline. Little GMD switchers like 7020 were kept busy by the nearby Oakville Ford Plant, that took a steady stream of boxcars full of auto parts inbound, and autoracks full of new automobiles outbound.
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The CN 7000-series were "straight" SW9/SW1200 units not equipped with the roadswitcher package, like CN's 1200-1300 SW1200RS units were, but otherwise they were identical in horsepower. Note the relatively clean paint, single-beam "garbage can" headlight, AAR-A style switcher trucks, lack of MU plugs or cables, dual spark arrestors, and "flippity-flappity" rooftop radiator covers.
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<i>Bob Wilt photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>

Name:	Bob Wilt photo, Dan…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	07/15/1974
Location:	Oakville
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 19 Favourites

As well as working the Steel Train out of Hamilton, CN's rebuilt F-units also found themselves on local wayfreight and work trains in the 80's. Here, CN F7Au's 9164 and 9169 sit in the TTR's Don Yard south of Cherry Street awaiting their next duties. CP business car 60 sits on an adjacent track.
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What appears to be a CN switcher and transfer caboose sit on another track near the old Don Yard yard tower (single-level at the top, like the ones at Mimico and Canpa, but unlike the one at Bathurst Street). Also in the background is the Lever Brothers soap factory (opened in the early 1950's, closed in the late 2000's) at the foot of the Don River. Today the F's and yard tower are gone, but Don Yard still sees use as a layover facility for GO Transit.
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<i>Original photographer unknown, Dan Dell'Unto collection.</i>

Name:	Unknown, Dan Dell'U…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/10/1986
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 18 Favourites

You might have seen this photo in black-and-white before: maybe in the pages of Dean & Hanna's Canadian Pacific Diesel Locomotives book, or maybe on Ray Kennedy's <a href=http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/CPR_Toronto_Yard/locogallery1.htm><b>Old Time Trains</b></a> page on Toronto Yard.<br><br>Three of CP's six GMD SW9 switchers, 7403, 7400 and 7405 (all in faded script paint) work CP's Toronto (Agincourt) Yard, pulled back all the way to Kennedy Road on the hump lead while drilling a long cut of cars over the hump. On the right, CP #931 gets ready to depart westbound (power appears to be an M636, a GMD unit, one of the two 900-series leased Alco RS27's, and an FB unit)<br><br>The six 1200hp SW9 units were built by GMD London in 1953 and were the highest horsepower switchers on CP's roster at the time, and they pre-dated CP's later SW1200RS units by a number of years. They were initially based in Western Canada out of the Kootaney-Kettle Valley territory for work train and snowplow use, and later transferred to Calgary-Revelstoke. Photos show them at Field, Revelstoke, and Banff, sometimes in use switching passenger consists out. They were equipped with larger separate front numberboards, 3-chime air horns and spark arrestors (later removed), a practice CP did for units that would sometimes see mainline use. Some appear to have also worked out of New Brunswick for a brief time. In the mid-1960's they were all rounded up and sent east to be the main hump power at CP's new Toronto Yard in Agincourt.<br><br>As part of their conversion to hump duties, the six 7400's were fitted with non-standard MU (first only on the rear, then 7400-03 on both ends) intended to run in multiples, and received a few other modifications: 7400-7403 were equipped as hump mother units with cab signals, slow speed hump control, and had their 3-chime horns re-mounted on the roof for a signal receiver to be mounted in the original horn bracket. 7404 and 7405 ended up as trail use only, and just had MU on the rear and no signal receiver equipment. The units originally operated in sets of two, but when more power was needed they ran in sets of three, with three Toronto-assigned SW1200RS units joining them to give enough units for another set of three for hump use (in trail-use only, with the 7400's receiving standardized MU at that time).<br><br>The six SW9's worked through three different paint schemes during their time at Toronto Yard (block, script here, and then <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=16866><b>action red</b></a>) until the early 80's when they were rebuilt at Winnipeg's Weston Shops under CP's 10 year motive power plan as SW9u units 1200-1205 (not in order). As GP9u's took over hump duties, the SW9's found other yard and local switching work. Some were deployed elsewhere on the system, others eventually converted to 1000-series slugs for use with GP9u mother units. All are off the roster today, and even the Agincourt hump is no more.<br><br><i>David M. More photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>

Name:	David M. More photo…
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	11/29/1972
Location:	Toronto (Agincourt…
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 21 Favourites

Three CN GP40-2L(W) units and two GP9's are smoking it up as they howl by a lone passenger waiting at the old stone 1856 GTR Georgetown Station in the afternoon. They're working hard on a westbound extra freight, climbing the grade from the Credit River leading to Silver. Zebra-striped power, a weedy station track, GO single-levels in the "commuter compound", an old baggage cart by the station and some vintage autos peg this shot in the 70's-80's.
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<i>Keith Hansen photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>

Name:	Keith Hansen photo,…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	Circa August 1980
Location:	Georgetown
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 13 Favourites

<b><i>"Traintown Toronto"</i></b>: CP Rail #12, the southbound Sudbury-Toronto section of "The Canadian", pulls into downtown Toronto at Bathurst Street behind an FP7 and RS10.
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There's lots of 70's goodies that fill this busy scene: stainless steel action-red Budd cars, wooden CN vans, 40' boxcars, the old Bathurst St. yard tower. Most prominent however are CN's Spadina roundhouse and servicing facilities in the background, teaming with the usual GMD and MLW passenger power of the time. The steam-era coal tower, wash racks, ready tracks and coachyard complete the scene.
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Also visible in the distance is the TTR's Central Heating Plant, and 1 Yonge Street (Toronto Star office tower). The amount of trees in the distance near the roundhouse is oddly perplexing to see downtown.
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This photo was taken during one of Emery's Toronto visits, when he was filming video footage for what would eventually be released as his "TrainTown Toronto" video. You can see this same train arriving in part of the footage.
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<i>Emery Gulash photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>

Name:	Emery Gulash photo,…
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	Circa July 1972
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 24 Favourites

Slow weekday afternoons in the Union Station Rail Corridor were always good for a few trains: some Lakeshore West-East runs, a few VIAs, and "The Bramalea Flip" afternoon Georgetown-line service between Brampton (Bramalea) and Toronto. Here, GO Transit F59PH 521 ducks under Spadina Avenue, departing Union Station on the tail end of afternoon train #263 to Bramalea station. She will be back later with #266, and then depart around 3pm again on #281 for the downtown Brampton station.
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Newly minted from GMD in July 1988, GO 521 ran in Toronto commuter service for two decades until retirement and sale to RB Leasing (RBRX) in 2009, eventually ending up on NC Dot (North Carolina) as cab control unit 105.
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The Toyota on Front auto dealership and the National Post newspaper building in the background have both since been demolished and redeveloped with new condos.

Name:	Dan Dell'Unto
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	03/28/2007
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

Running parallel to the Gardiner Expressway, CN SW1200RS 1237 trundles westbound at Mile 4.7 on CN's Oakville Sub on a "caboose hop" with wooden van 78547 on a local job (possibly heading to switch the nearby Ontario Food Terminal, or returning light power to Mimico Yard.
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In the foreground is the switch to the former CN Humber Belt Line Spur, once the western branch of the Toronto Beltline Railway, but by this time a siding to the nearby Stelco Swansea Works at The Queensway & Windermere. The Toronto Beltline's "Humber Loop" once ran from here northward and eastward to West Toronto in the 1890's, but was cut down to small spurs when CN predecessor Grand Trunk Railway took over and began running freight. In the 1950's The Queensway was extended west and the spur (still serving one or two customers to the north) had diamonds and crossing protection installed for streetcars. This setup lasted until removal in the mid-60's. Around that time, Stelco expanded their property south over part of the line, and a small portion branching from the Oakville Sub here served as a siding for Stelco into the 1990's (the factory opened in 1885, closed in 1990, demolished for redevelopment in the early 2000's).
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<i>Charles Houser photo (maybe), Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>

Name:	Charles Houser phot…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	Circa July 1978
Location:	Toronto (Swansea)
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 23 Favourites

Name:	John F. Bromley pho…
Railway:	Toronto Transit Co…
Date:	07/30/1966
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

It's a gloomy, rainy day in Port Colborne as CN GP9 4577 works the east end of the yard at Nickel, crossing Durham Street heading back to the northern yard tracks along the Dunnville Sub mainline. According to a car control diagram, the yard tracks south of Durham St. that 4577 is coming back from are INCO-switched plant trackage, so the unit was likely interchanging some inbound INCO traffic. In the background, the towers of Lift Bridge 21 (Clarence St.) and 20 (CN Dunnville Sub) can be seen spanning the Welland Canal.
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The Dunnville Sub was abandoned and removed by CN a few years later in the mid-80's, and a small portion here survives at the end of the CN Humberstone Spur (Yager to Nickel (Port Colborne)) to service the Vale Canada (former INCO) plant. The yard tracks were removed in the early 2000's, and a runaround remains.
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<i>Robert Kentie photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>

Name:	Robert Kentie photo…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	Circa July 1981
Location:	Port Colborne
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 26 Favourites

Judging by the lack of cars and pedestrians anywhere, this might be a Sunday morning in August or July (as stores in Ontario were still closed down on the Lord's Day, not to change until 1992). A lone 4500-series A8-class TTC PCC streetcar trundles eastbound on St. Clair Avenue West through midtown Toronto, pausing at <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=43883><b>Spadina Avenue</b></a> to let off a passenger before continuing on its way towards the unknown photographer standing at Avenue Road. The destination rollsign appears to read "Yonge Subway" (perhaps St. Clair cars only ran to Yonge on weekends, and not further up <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=32380><b>Mount Pleasant</b></a>). A taxi cab sits at Forest Hill Road between calls.<br><br><i>Original photographer unknown, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>

Name:	unknown, Dan Dell'U…
Railway:	Toronto Transit Co…
Date:	Circa August 1973
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 8 Favourites

Reg Button was out of his usual Hamilton stomping grounds today: staked out north of Toronto on the southern border of Vaughan to catch this CP freight heading northbound up the MacTier Subdivision. CP SD40-2 6016, M636 4720, C424's 4222, 4237 & 4227 lead with Delaware & Hudson GP39-2's 7603 and 7601 trailing (no doubt the prize Reg was after), curving north about to duck under CN's Halton Subdivision after crossing Islington Avenue in the background (north of CP "Emery"). Both D&H units (originally build for the Reading RR) may have been heading west for overhaul by CP and renumbering to D&H 7403 and 7401.
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Today this scene is quite grown in, and the old golf course land on the right is under redevelopment. The old LiftKing forklift factory, landscaping nursery, and banquet hall in the background remain however, as does the grade crossing and single track mainline.
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<i>Reg Button photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>

Name:	Reg Button photo, D…
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	05/16/1984
Location:	Vaughan
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 15 Favourites

CP S10 6603, one of the local Toronto-area MLW switchers based out of John St. Roundhouse, sits near the yard office at CP's Lambton Yard in West Toronto, just above the Runnymede Road overpass. In the distance is CP caboose 436468, an old wooden "van" still with its tongue-and-groove siding and a rare paint variation (multimark painted on the cupola end, common practice on steel vans but very rare on wooden ones).<br><br>The MLW S10 was a "new" model introduced by MLW in 1958, but was basically identical to the later-carbody 660-horsepower S3 model that CP had been purchasing. CP opted for an order of 13 units, numbered 6601-6613. MLW later changed their 660hp switcher design to the S11 (which shared a common body style with the S13/RS23 units).<br><br>By the 1980's, the old steam-era Alco/MLW switchers were considered outdated and underpowered, and CP began to rebuilt GMD-built GP7/9 and SW units to replace most in yard and local service. 6603 was retired in early 1983, and scrapped at Angus Shops in Montreal.<br><br><i>Stan F. Styles photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.</i>

Name:	Stan Styles photo, …
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	Circa October 1980
Location:	Toronto (West Toro…
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 11 Favourites

Two of CN's 3200-series MLW C424's (exact numbers unknown) sit tarped and stored out of service at CN's MacMillan Yard, near CN SD40 5064. Apparently 10 units were stored at MacMillan Yard, and 4 in Montreal, but no reason was noted on the slide (traffic downturn maybe?). Today, special large tarps for diesel locomotives stored out of service would be a frivolous extra expense at best.
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<i>Greg Roach photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.

Name:	Greg Roach photo, D…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	01/02/1978
Location:	Vaughan
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 12 Favourites

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