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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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2 matching sets of a GP38 & GP20ECO are briefly beside each other as the 4447 & 2269 bring a large cut of cars forward while the 4514 & 2254 await their next assignment. I liked this shot as it serves as a good comparison between 2 units of former SOO heritage. The 4447 being built for the SOO and the 4514 being acquired by SOO from MILW.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/31/2021
Location:	Toronto - Agincour…
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

After sitting in Mactier for around 28 hours, CMQ 9021 & CP 5750 are the power of BAL-07 and are seen here paused briefly while the conductor sets the switch into the siding at Buckskin for a meet with 113. There was originally hope at catching this train in sunlight as they were ordered at Mactier at 1400 for their trip south, but unknown events lead to it not departing until well after 4, meaning basically no sun for the entirety of their journey. Nonetheless, it was still a fun afternoon/evening of hunting!

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	11/10/2021
Location:	Severn Falls
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 10 Favourites

The trees and foliage would suggest otherwise, but it is 6 days into November as CP 147 hauls through the head-on sunlight at Leaside with a relatively clean GEVO at the helm. Trailing is CP 7020, which to my knowledge is yet to lead through Toronto in daylight after almost 2 years of service.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	11/06/2021
Location:	Toronto - Leaside
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 8 Favourites

Emphasized by the sumac bushes to the right of the image, it's a year where November 2nd could still pass as looking like late September while CP 147 approaches the Davenport diamond with a fun lashup of an SD70ACu and a BNSF GEVO. It was nice to finally see 147 again as due to an electronic shortage in the auto industry, 147 has not run in at least a month until this day to my knowledge.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	11/02/2021
Location:	Toronto - Davenpor…
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 8 Favourites

<b> Trick Or Treat </b>
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It was all treats for railfans from the Canadian Pacific on Halloween this year, but maybe a little bit of a trick for the crew of this Toronto-bound manifest/ballast train. They had made their way down the last part of the Mactier Sub and onto the North Toronto within the first hour of daylight, but were halted at Leaside due to a major train traffic jam getting into Toronto Yard ahead of them. 4 eastbound trains, 2 westbounds, plus 4 continuous RC Yard Jobs always up to something. Eventually at around 11:30am, they were instructed to run around their train and head to Lambton instead. This made quite a few eyes turn as the lone SD40-2 in this consist was facing west and would end up being the one leading into Lambton. And here they are, sitting in the Lambton 5 yard track shortly after the crew hopped on a taxi to take them back to Agincourt. What a day!

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/31/2021
Location:	West Toronto
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 15 Favourites

CP 140-turned-234 arrives in Toronto in the early morning hours of October 29th with a lashup of a CP GEVO & KCS de Mexico AC4400CW. In this photo they have just completed setting off their train and have pulled past the Finch overpass in order to back up into the correct shop track. This provided a short but sweet opportunity to snag a picture of the head end of the KCS unit, a faux-leader if you will.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Kansas City Southe…
Date:	10/29/2021
Location:	Toronto - Agincour…
Province:	Ontario

5 Comments | 19 Favourites

CN L54931 28 with a trio of zebra GP38s rests at Lambton in the dead of night awaiting a signal from CP RTC.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	10/29/2021
Location:	West Toronto
Province:	Ontario

10 Comments | 17 Favourites

Defying the odds, CMQ 9011 takes the solo lead of a short CP 421 as it moves through mile 1.6 of the North Toronto Subdivision in the mid afternoon on one of the hottest days of 2021. This thing caught me by complete surprise, so you can only imagine my reaction when I saw the signature appearance of an SD40-2F round the bend just past the pedestrian bridge. As an added bonus, 9011 is my personal favourite of the remaining barns.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	05/20/2021
Location:	Toronto - Rosedale
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 14 Favourites

It's only a couple days before Halloween and the fall colours are in full swing on a crisp and sunny October 2020 day in Toronto. Meanwhile CP 101 thunders through Rosedale with a 4 unit lashup including a CMQ-painted AC44, kicking up plenty of leaves as they go.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/28/2020
Location:	Toronto - Rosedale
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 9 Favourites

Where has the pride in the fleet gone??? Here we see an increasingly common sight on CP; a coal stained GEVO taking the lead of 101's 6-unit light power move in some gorgeous light along the North Toronto. Visible in the background is the clock tower of the 1915-built North Toronto Station, which has been an LCBO now for longer than it was ever a train station!

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/18/2021
Location:	Toronto - Summerhi…
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 6 Favourites

Well, here’s something I can say with confidence I wasn’t sure if I’d ever witness; a pair of F59PH locomotives on a GO Train. But alas, it happened this morning on the first revenue GO run from London, Ontario to downtown Toronto. I must say it’s quite a fitting pair of engines to kick it off, seeing as both of them were built at the GMDD facility in London back in the early 90s.
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In this photo, the aforementioned F59 pair, GO 558 & 561 take a 6-car train into the USRC as they are nearing the completion of their 4-hour trip from London. After letting passengers disembark, the train deadheaded to the Willowbrook Maintenance Facility to layover until heading back to Union in the late afternoon to make the trip back to London.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	GO Transit
Date:	10/18/2021
Location:	Toronto
Province:	Ontario

13 Comments | 17 Favourites

<b>Rare Mileage!</b>
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On this cool overcast October afternoon, CP T10-16 is on the Oshawa GM spur in the middle of picking up multiple cuts of stored empty autoracks that were in the yard for the past month or so. Power for the job is a pair of GEs finest, one on home rails and another belonging to CSX. The train would later become a 241 after returning to Toronto Yard with the empties.
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The spur this train is on exists to service the massive GM Plant in Oshawa, and historically saw quite a lot of activity on a weekly basis from the CP. A few years back, GM had announced the closure of the plant in favour of one in Mexico. It’s been an ongoing battle from the public to keep the plant alive for the past few years, and recently I believe GM agreed to start producing a limited amount of cars at the facility once again. Although this particular movement was solely for bringing autoracks out of storage, there might be a bright future for this spur moving forward. Only time will tell!

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/16/2021
Location:	Oshawa
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 6 Favourites

During one of very few sunny patches of the day in the Greater Sudbury Area, OVR train 431 from North Bay knocks down a clear to stop signal at the Romford searchlights located at mile 72 of the CP Cartier Sub with an ex-CN GP40-2LW in the lead.

Romford is quite a significant junction, as the south track becomes the Parry Sound Sub down to Mactier and eventually Toronto, while the Cartier Sub on the north track runs to North Bay and continues into the now-abandoned Chalk River Sub toward Smith’s Falls and eventually Montreal. Nowadays, the OVR’s tri-weekly North Bay/Sudbury transfer is the only train to use the Cartier Sub between mile 0 & 62, as CP began to direct all of their Montreal traffic through Toronto around 2010 I believe. Much more history can be read up on this online, but that is a brief summary for you!

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Ottawa Valley Rail…
Date:	10/13/2021
Location:	Romford
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 18 Favourites

CP 101 moves at a leisurely pace through Leaside with as many intermodal wells as units powering the train (until Vaughan that is). Up front is the 8757, the unit recently repainted into an all-orange scheme and revealed on September 30th, the first annual National Truth & Reconciliation Day, otherwise known as Orange Shirt Day.
Read more in-depth about the engine and it's story here: <a href="https://www.cpr.ca/en/community/every-child-matters-locomotive">https://www.cpr.ca/en/community/every-child-matters-locomotive</a>
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Overall I'm pretty happy with this image but next time I'll go for a wider angle for sure.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/06/2021
Location:	Toronto - Leaside
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 11 Favourites

Here's a throwback to just under 4 years ago when transfer jobs used to be a commodity along the North Toronto Sub. Back in 2017-2018 in my early times using a DSLR, I remember seeing yard transfers between Lambton & Toronto Yard multiple times daily, sometimes even more than road trains. Now in the year 2021 I can only count a handful of times seeing one run, and I'd say it probably only happens once or twice a month at most. Unfortunate but it's the way things go.
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Anyways, in this shot we see a beautiful red ex-SOO GP38 leading the way of a westbound transfer through the Bartlett crossing on a chilly December 1, 2017.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/01/2017
Location:	Toronto - Davenpor…
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 13 Favourites

<b> Staring Down The Unstoppable </b>
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A mad dash to the CP tracks after being down at the Kingston payed off when CP 9758, one of four AC44 units used in the movie "Unstoppable" was leading the charge of 4 engines on CP 142 in some gorgeous morning light. Of the 4 engines, only 2 (9751, 9758) remain with the yellow plow stripes used in the film.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	09/29/2021
Location:	Oshawa
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 7 Favourites

Railfans & Travellers alike have got a lot to be excited about right now, as VIA’s first Siemens-built trainset has been completed and is currently enroute to Montreal for testing. Here it is passing Oshawa in some sweet morning light being transported by a CN SD70M-2. The ID for this train was interestingly P698, a rarely used passenger train symbol rather than an extra freight symbol, I wonder why that is.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	09/29/2021
Location:	Oshawa
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 23 Favourites

CP 7307 gives our lungs a run for their money as the engineer throttles up through CN Yager after interchanging traffic at Southern Yard in Welland, ON.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/12/2021
Location:	Welland
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 10 Favourites

I was recently digging through my archives from the end of 2019 and stumbled across this image of CP 421 passing Bartlett Ave in some beautiful late evening sun. I think this shot is a nice example of how even the rattiest GEs can look pretty damn good in the right lighting.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	11/15/2019
Location:	Toronto - Davenpor…
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 11 Favourites

Going back to early November 2019,we find a pretty clean CP 8615 leading 147 through Bartlett in some perfect evening light kicking up some dust from a heavy snowfall earlier in the day. Most Torontonians are never very happy about an early winter and will escape to a warmer climate the first chance they get, but I was not one to complain when shots like this were up for the picking.

Name:	Liam MacDougall
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	11/12/2019
Location:	Toronto - Davenpor…
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 7 Favourites

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