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I am a rail photographer born and raised in Toronto, ON. I mainly take pictures along the CP North Toronto Subdivision but also all over Toronto and the the rest of Ontario whenever I can get out of the city. Trains have been my passion since as long as I can remember, and in 2016 I started to incorporate photography into that lifelong passion, with a little bit of inspiration from my mother who had photography as her main career for a good chunk of time. I’m a Nikon guy, and so far I’ve used the Nikon D200, D3400, D5600 and now a Z6 throughout my time. Hopefully you enjoy my shots, and feel free to email me or shoot me a DM on Instagram (@trainsintoronto)

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On a beautiful May morning, GO 563 & 557 highball out of Weston Station running around 30 minutes late as they pass the Royale/Irving Tissue factory on their way to Union Station. To the left of the engines you can see a former spur into the aforementioned factory, I wonder when it was last served by rail?

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	05/13/2022
Location:	Toronto - Weston
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 15 Favourites

In October of 2021, myself & my father ventured up to the Sudbury area, primarily in hopes of catching <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/upload/cp-6018-east-leads-the-levack-turn-towards-sprecherclarabelle-with-46-loads-from-the-coleman-mine-in-levack-at-the-perfect-moment-in-onaping-falls">the Levack turn</a>; a Nickel ore job run by the CP which goes from Sudbury to Levack & back apparently every weekday. For whatever reason, both mornings we were up there, the train simply just did not run. What did run however was this CWR train from Cartier Yard, set to dump rail along the Cartier Sub near Levack. Unbeknownst to me at the time, the arrangement of this train was nothing short of silly. The caboose & MOW crew were on the south end of the train, and the power on the north end, with both units facing south and the engineer operating inside the 6013. We had caught up to the train alongside HWY 144 near Onaping Falls but had only seen the rear of it where the caboose & MOW crew were. Later when I heard RTC call the "6013 North" and instructed them to take the Levack siding for a pair of southbounds, my face lit up to the idea of shooting an SD40 leader up in this beautiful scenery. Could this be my redemption for not getting the ore train? The short answer; not really. When I saw the ass-end of 6259 round the corner ahead, the optimism went right out the window. But now looking back it was still a hell of an experience to get up there, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/14/2021
Location:	Levack
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 12 Favourites

CP 246 picks up speed through Royal York as they make their way out of Lambton heading towards Hamilton & beyond. My focus stayed on Hamilton the rest of the evening, in the form of the NHL Heritage classic, which as a Leafs fan you can imagine I was not pleased about the results of.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/16/2022
Location:	Toronto - Etobicok…
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 11 Favourites

<p><a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=48151">This image</a></p> by Steve Danko in January of 1987 inspired me to dig into my 2020 archives and retrieve this shot of GO 564 north as it leads one of the rush-hour Richmond Hill GO Trains through an ancient relic of a signal bridge located at mile 2 of the Bala Subdivision at the foot of the Don Valley in Toronto. As Steve noted in his photo, this location not only is the beginning of the Bala Sub, but also the former end of the CPR Belleville Sub seen here in the weeds to the left. The Belleville Sub once continued from mile 206.3 at Leaside down the Don Branch to this location at 209.6 where it terminated. This was the case up to 2009 when the branch was sold to Metrolinx and cut from the mainline at Leaside. <br><br>Unbeknownst to me at the time I took this, the signals here would be taken out of service in early 2021, and the structure dismantled later on in the year, making this frame now a piece of history. This particular signal bridge was one of the first of the 1930s-era USRC structures to fall, and many others in the area will be following suit very soon as Metrolinx continues to modernize their system.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/18/2020
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

5 Comments | 21 Favourites

A questionable patch job is in the lead position of CN L529 with a much more attractive GTW 5849 second as they work the XTL Transport facility in northern Etobicoke. The 4908 here was built originally for the Long Island Railroad and was mainly seen in passenger service throughout its time there. Since then it has been a leaser for both LLPX and more recently GMTX, where it wore the number 2284 until being sold to CN within the past month or so.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/08/2022
Location:	Toronto-Etobicoke
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 13 Favourites

They say a picture speaks a thousand words, and this one certainly has a story behind it.

Here we see CP 9-118 and F55 beside each other at the east end of the yard in Smith’s Falls, Ontario. A trip was made out this way following word that a CWR would be running westbound with the SD40 pictured here at the helm, and a pair of KCS units that were dropped the previous night by 143. Upon arrival at the falls, we were surprised to see that the F55 crew had hooked their GP20ECO up to the aforementioned SD40 and were doing their day’s work with it. We knew F55 is the ID for the Omya (Glen Tay) turn, so we stuck around waiting to shoot the classic multimark GMD leading west on the job. Unfortunately, the waiting did not pay off as after they had built their train, they dropped the 40 and ran to the Omya plant long-hood-forward with their ECO unit…. Effectively, it was a day and upwards of $90 on gas money wasted.

As for the frame here, this was when F55 was in the process of spotting GP38-2 3051 on a cut of stacks for an eastbound to pick up later and bring towards Montreal. Meanwhile an extra 118 is backing up to drop off 2 cars. Something we took note of while being here is how CP seems to be using Smith’s Falls as a mini-classification yard, with 3 separate eastbounds having both pickups and setoffs at the yard with traffic that has nothing to do with surrounding industries, such as large cuts of intermodal.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/07/2022
Location:	Smith's Falls
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 10 Favourites

A mid-morning outing to mile 2 of the Halton Sub proved to be quite rewarding from a local standpoint, this train being no exception. CN L579, a seemingly uncommon train ID is headed up the hill approaching Mac Yard with an intriguing lashup of CN 4708, 7258, and former CitiRail GEVO 3967. Following the power was around 5,000 feet of containers & autoracks from the Brampton Intermodal Terminal. I should also note that only the GP38 & GP9 were online and were working their absolute hardest to grind up the hill without stalling, making for quite the sound as I’m sure you can imagine.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/08/2022
Location:	Vaughan
Province:	Ontario

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An all EMD lashup rolls through Streetsville early this afternoon with a manifest/CWR combo train running as 234. I definitely don’t give the SD30ECOs enough credit, with those flared radiators they honestly look pretty damn good. The GP20s on the other hand…..

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/01/2022
Location:	Streetsville
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 15 Favourites

With the CP 6013 proudly up front as a nod to days gone by, CP 8-420 enters Vaughan Yard under a blanket of purple skies as they prepare to drop a sizeable cut of intermodal in the aforementioned yard.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	11/11/2021
Location:	Vaughan
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 12 Favourites

With the remaining sunlight of the day quickly fading/disappearing behind clouds, CP 2-T49 reverses into Spence Yard with a CN SD70i on point, looking a little lost this far up the Mactier Sub.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/14/2021
Location:	Alliston
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 9 Favourites

One of my personal favourite GP38s is on point of CP T78 as they make an appearance spotting cars on the Pit Spur in Ayr, Ontario. When myself and some buddies headed out to the Ayr/Wolverton area to shoot T72, we didn't know if T78 was even running, so to end up catching it working this spur was a pretty sweet surprise.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	01/25/2022
Location:	Ayr
Province:	Ontario

10 Comments | 14 Favourites

Oshawa Revitalization
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QGRY 3548 basks in the remaining sunlight of a chilly January day while the crew prepares to switch out truck frame flatcars at the GM Plant in Oshawa, Ontario. A long, hard fight was needed to keep this plant alive, otherwise GM would’ve pulled out of Oshawa completely and produced all vehicles in Mexico to maximize profits.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Genesee & Wyom…
Date:	01/21/2022
Location:	Oshawa
Province:	Ontario

5 Comments | 20 Favourites

Winter Wonderland
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CP 119 is about 11 hours late as it moves through mile 1.6 of the North Toronto Sub at dusk through around 40cm of freshly fallen snow. Sitting on the south track is an outlawed 118 which tied down earlier in the day due to the crew running out of hours on their shift.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	01/17/2022
Location:	Toronto-Rosedale
Province:	Ontario

6 Comments | 12 Favourites

The first week of the G&W Oshawa switching ops is under way, and for the time being is about a 3-hour truck frame switching job under the cover of darkness. This is soon to change however, as a contract from CP for autoracks is in the works. Here we see a stopped RLK 4095 as the crew is just about to tie down the unit for the night.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Genesee & Wyom…
Date:	01/13/2022
Location:	Oshawa
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 20 Favourites

After getting a tip that 421 would be a good set of power this particular afternoon, I set out for it around 2PM to see if I could snag it. For the next 2 hours I waited and waited for it to leave Toronto Yard, and finally it made an appearance with less than an hour left of daylight, completely engulfed in golden hour sun as it passed through Summerhill. The clouds had also been playing games with me the whole time I was out so it was quite satisfying to come out of the situation with a shot like this. Patience pays off!

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/02/2021
Location:	Toronto - Summerhi…
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 17 Favourites

CP T10-27 is seen here making a late evening appearance in the Oshawa siding with a very intriguing lashup of CP 2263 & freshly painted QGRY 3548; a GP38-2 of MoPac heritage. Behind the power is 31 empty autoracks destined for the Oshawa GM plant at some point. 3548 marks the second G&W unit to have been brought to Oshawa (the first being RLK 4095, a GP40 of CN heritage) as the inaugural operating date for the company in Oshawa fast approaches.
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<br> Funnily enough, CP actually ended up needing the extra motive power as the solo GP20ECO was unsuccessful after multiple failed attempts to shove their train up the hill and into Oshawa Yard. They asked Toronto Yard if they could cut in the QGRY unit to make it up into the yard and were given the green light. I recall hearing the crew mention that the GP38 alone likely could've done the shove all by itself unlike their GP20, haha! Overall it was quite a fun & surprising catch to end off a nice chilly day of railfanning, and I'm excited to see what the future holds for Oshawa!

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/27/2021
Location:	Oshawa
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 12 Favourites

In some beautiful morning sunlight, CP TH11 is crossing Gage Avenue and the diamond with the CN N&NW spur with their cut of cars from Kinnear Yard. A trio of matching paint GP38-2s, each with different ownership history are the power.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/21/2021
Location:	Hamilton
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 13 Favourites

Some gorgeous evening light sets the scene for VIA 917 as it flies through the CN Clarke searchlights in the lead of VIA 53.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	12/19/2021
Location:	Wilmot Creek
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 12 Favourites

On a very cloudy October evening, CP hotshot intermodal #100 is moving at a leisurely pace through downtown Sudbury with rebuilt AC4400CWM #8016 in the lead. In the background the 4-axle Sudbury Yard job is busy taking apart a cut of cars left by the OVR earlier in the afternoon.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/13/2021
Location:	Sudbury
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 7 Favourites

The day of November 28th, 2021 will certainly be one to remember, as for the whole day a snowstorm occurred in the midst of some very rare VIA Rail corridor detours. The first spot of the day for me was mile 6.2 of the Bala Sub, where I lucked out with a wrapped F40PH at the helm of VIA 62/52 splitting the block signals at a decent rate of speed.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	11/28/2021
Location:	Toronto - Thorncli…
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 11 Favourites

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