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I am a rail photographer from Toronto, ON who mainly takes pictures along the CP North Toronto Subdivision. I use a Nikon D3400 & Nikon D200.

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CP 5792 takes the lead of a Herzog ballast train down the Mactier sub with newly reacquired CMQ 9020 trailing as well as another SD40. 5792 was arguably "ruined" recently when a yellow frame stripe was stuck on it not too long ago, making it a little less attractive than the preferred white stripe, but I'm not really one to be picky, as seeing any SD40 makes me happy.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/19/2020
Location: Weston
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
CEFX 1002 wearing an attractive CMQ paint scheme brings up the rear of CP 113 as it traverses the North Toronto Sub. 1002 is one of a few UP-spec CEFX AC4400s the CMQ had on lease and for whatever reason this unit as well as 1006 received matching CMQ paint while still retaining the CEFX reporting mark. While the CMQ was its own entity, 1002 & 1006 were often seen together on Job 1 & 2 throughout eastern Quebec & Maine. Since the CP Takeover, the units managed to stay within their home territory while the SD40-2Fs started to roam the system. That of course lasted until today, where 1002 was stuck on the rear of 113, marking the first time for one of the CMQ painted AC44s to ride the rails of the main CP system. This is not the first time 1002 has been on a CP train outside of Quebec though, as throughout the 2000s CP had these on lease, but in the classic CEFX scheme instead. Anyways, I'll quit rambling and let you enjoy the photo. What a catch!
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/18/2020
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
7 Comments | 17 Favourites
Well, tonight was a wild one. I was out on my bike once again after work and originally set out to shoot GO 558 coming in from Niagara Falls. However, I messed up that shot and was pretty discouraged to do any more railfanning for the rest of the day. For whatever reason, that mindset changed and I decided to head over to West Toronto and check out what was going on there. I noticed the signals lined up for a power wye to occur. Usually this happens with train T49, when there are autoracks to be lifted at Lambton destined for Spence. It's easier to wye the power vs setting up your second unit in lead. Today. my head almost fell off when I heard "CP 6018 West, clear signal Bartlett, north track". Sure enough, around the bend comes SD40-2 6018 along with GP38AC 3004 for the ride. In this photo they are seen reversing through a classic pair of searchlights as they head toward the east Lambton Yard ladder to lift some cars. As this is not common power whatsoever for a T49, I spent the next 30 minutes in a mad scramble to try to figure out what train this was, until finally they called into RTC as T49. After dark they proceeded north to Spence with 5,000+ feet of empty autoracks.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/16/2020
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Comments | 14 Favourites
CP 247-25 (likely running as T15 in this photo) crosses what appears to be a singular bridge over the north side of E.T. Seaton Park. This shot taken from Eglinton Avenue between Laird & the DVP has been one I've had my eyes on for a while, especially for afternoon eastbound trains in which the light does not favor. Today I decided to give it a shot, with D-Day unit 6644 leading 7016 (sound familiar?). As previously mentioned, this appears to be one solid bridge in the photo, however upon closer inspection you'll realize it's actually 2 completely seperate bridges, sitting around 2 feet apart from each other with alternating supports. I'm not sure why exactly this is but I'd assume it was that one bridge was added whenever the Belleville west of Agincourt as well as the North Toronto was double tracked. This same style is repeated on every valley the tracks cross, with exceptions for the DVP, which is less a bridge and more an arched tunnel built far after the tracks existed, and the valley between Summerhill and Rosedale, which has a ballasted bridge that can accommodate for 3 tracks, as it was once a lead for the North Toronto Station. Also visible in this photo, the 2 road units are towing behind 2 yard units, GP20C-ECO 2281, and GP38-2 3042. These engines are the current assigned power to Lambton Yard, and the reason they are seen on this train is because the crew from 247 in some cases will end their shift in Lambton and the yard crew will take care of their switching and then proceed to bring the train the rest of the way to Agincourt. The yard power tags along simply as a taxi basically so once the crew has finished dropping the train in Agincourt they have an easy and fast way to get back to Lambton. This would be the reason as well that they'd be running as T15, since it is technically a yard transfer with a yard crew after Lambton.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 07/25/2020
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 14 Favourites
Very similar to this shot <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=41931"> http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=41931</a> by my friend Jacob Estrin, another CP 246 is racing a TTC T1 subway through Kipling / Obico. This 246 was lead by the D-Day commemorative unit 6644, as well as a heritage unit trailing!
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 07/22/2020
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Comments | 17 Favourites
GO CEM cab car 340 leads an afternoon Milton line train through the curve at West Toronto. This shot is a bit of a rare sight as the track the GO is using in this image is normally only utilized by CP trains working the east end of Lambton Yard who use it for headroom. This day however, track work was happening on the track GO normally uses (seen on the right side of the image) so they were forced onto the second track. It made foe a much nicer shot as I was able to get the entire train in the frame as well as the CN Tower.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: GO Transit
Date: 07/21/2020
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 10 Favourites
The first Lakeshore East GO train of the morning glides into Danforth while the sun begins to crest over the horizon. My balcony was the perfect spot to capture this moment from an elevation!
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: GO Transit
Date: 05/29/2020
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 9 Favourites
CP 142 makes a somewhat rare daylight appearance on the North Toronto Sub with nothing particularly special for power, but I liked how the shot came out. Because of the 1+1 setup, I immediately thought this train to be a 118 or a 112, but after noticing the large amount of EMP/HUB containers I knew it was a 142.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 07/14/2020
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 7 Favourites
GO F59PH # 564 winds through one of the many sharp curves on the very beginning of the Bala Sub with its usual 6-car consist of commuters heading home for the day.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: GO Transit
Date: 07/08/2020
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 10 Favourites
If you had told me a year ago that I'd see CP 421 with 3 CP engines and not a single one painted in red I would've said you're out of your mind. Sure enough, yesterday's 421 consisted of 2 ACu's in the maroon/grey scheme, CP's D-Day ACu 6644, and a BNSF ET44AC(?) thrown in for good measure. Quite a catch for sure, and I'm glad this train came about 3 hours later than usual as the sweet evening light was just beginning to set in when it passed me at Leaside. I hope you enjoy the shot!
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 07/10/2020
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 15 Favourites
With not a single GE in sight, CP 420 heads east though mile 4.6 of the North Toronto Sub with SD70ACu #7053 at the helm, no more than 2 weeks after being released from rebuild. Hell, throw 2 more ACus in there along with a GP38AC and you've got yourself quite a lashup.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/16/2020
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Comments | 14 Favourites
The 1988 London-built SD40-2F is an engine I can say with confidence I never expected to see on CP rails again, let alone leading a train, as they were sold away to the Central Maine & Quebec who were taking over operations of the now-bankrupt Montreal Maine & Atlantic. Fast forward to June 12, 2020, a week after CP has assumed full control of the CMQ, and a pair of "Red Barns" (although no longer red) are thundering west on the Belleville Sub at around milepost 190 with extra train #9-143. What a time to be alive! I won't jinx it but what I will say is that I'm much more hopeful for the survival of the remaining 40-2Fs as CP is under quite a different management than when they sold them off.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/12/2020
Location: Pickering
Province: Ontario
Comments | 17 Favourites
After catching the final “Cayuga Clipper” train yesterday (April 30), I thought I would probably be done with trains for at least a few days as that was a huge outing for myself and my dad. Little did I know that the next day, CP would run a GREX Ballast train down from Sudbury with 2 classic multimark SD40s as well as an SD30 for good measure. Of course, after waking up and hearing about this, I stuffed some food in me and highballed it on my bike towards Leaside. I got there with around half an hour to spare, and was able to get a decent enough shot considering the amount of backlighting. I’ll always go out for a pair of SD40s, no matter what train they’re on, but this train was especially nice to see as they had a good 30ish cars of manifest to go along with the ballast train which for some odd reason was an even more special treat to me, I guess it shows that despite their age, these engines are still up for any task.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 05/01/2020
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 10 Favourites
“Last Stand” OSRX 1401 & 6508 take charge of the final “Cayuga Clipper” through Belmont Road just west of Aylmer, ON. Today was definitely a day to go down in history, as the last revenue freight train rode the rails of the “Canada Air Line” from Tilsonburg to St Thomas today. Over the 147 years this line has existed, it has seen its fair share of operators, including CN,CP, TH&B, NW/NS, and many more. Known officially as the CN Cayuga Subdivision until 1995, it linked the once extremely busy St. Thomas (aka Railway City) with Buffalo, NY. After CN abandoned the majority of the line in ‘95, the remaining portion from St. Thomas to just east of Tilsonburg was renamed the Cayuga Spur, and only existed for industries located along the line who still requested rail service. Since then, the line has seen use from Trillium as well as OSR but as far as I know, operations became fewer and further between as customers along the line either started to leave or switch to trucks. Since the line was no longer feasible to the current Operator (OSR) the decision was made to pack it all up, with only one industry remaining on the line. For the past couple weeks, OSR has been picking up cars which have sat in sidings for years, even decades in some cases (see @boxcar_gaynor ‘s profile for pictures of some old CASCO tank cars) and dragged them out in preparation for abandonment. Although nobody knows the actual future for the line, it’s nearly impossible to be optimistic considering the stories for many of Ontario’s rail lines have been all too similar to this one. But regardless of if it is or isn’t the last train to ride these rails, I’m glad to have seen history in the making today. (Please correct me if I made any mistakes in the caption!)
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Ontario Southland
Date: 04/30/2020
Location: Aylmer
Province: Ontario
8 Comments | 8 Favourites
A pair of worn SD75is lead the Calgary-Toronto intermodal train #114 south through mile 39 of the Bala Sub. I would prefer seeing these units any day over a pair of GEVOs, although this particular engine had a terrible horn, I must say.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 03/29/2020
Location: Whitchurch-Stouffv…
Province: Ontario
Comments | 14 Favourites
Yesterday I was out fanning in Leaside trying to catch as much of the backlogged intermodal trains as I could. I checked my phone at around 4:30 and figured out there was a solo BNSF dash 9 leading empty grain train 331 which had departed Smiths Falls at 1:30pm that day. I knew there would be a high chance it stops in Toronto Yard, maybe even gets a CP leader shoved on it, so we set out for somewhere east of Agincourt. I found the Reesor Road crossing on the map, a street which has both the CN York and CP Belleville cross it at track level, making the street a pretty good railfan spot, provided you have a car. Minutes after arrival, the sound of a K5HL horn fills the atmosphere, and with no more than 10 minutes of light left in the spot, the train made its appearance. This definitely has to be one of my favourite catches of the year so far, and the first time I haven’t felt the need to edit a shot in a while.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 03/24/2020
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 10 Favourites
SOO 4410, along with CP 3134 is curving southwest on the Mactier Wye at West Toronto, running as train T15. Apparently, the trailing unit (which was leading west at the time) had issues when the crew was working the West end of Lambton Yard, so they decided to wye the power in order to have 4410 facing west. Hearing this on the scanner as I was hanging out near the old stockyards shooting Milton GO trains, I knew I was in for a treat. I scrambled over to some nice searchlight signals on the connecting track from the Mactier Sub to the Galt Sub, and set up. As far as I know, the only trains that use this track on a weekly basis are 235 (Spence to Windsor), and some CN-CP transfers, both of these happening in basically pitch dark, so I was even more excited to see something else use it, especially in almost perfect lighting. I'm not usually happy to hear when a unit has issues, but considering the result of this one I can't say I'm unhappy at all.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 03/05/2020
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 14 Favourites
CP SD70ACu #7008 leads an AC44 and another ACu through the Mount Pleasant block signals on a chilly evening. I was quite lucky to have been in this spot while the train passed, as a brief patch of sunlight was shining through on what was an almost 100% overcast day.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 02/19/2020
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 14 Favourites
Running around an hour and a half early, VIA 6432 is on point of VIA train #2 “The Canadian” from Vancouver as it traverses the remaining couple miles of the Bala Sub in the Don Valley before it’s early arrival at Union Station. Although virtually impossible to see, there is a faded mile marker on the right hand side indicating that this point is also Mile 209 of the CP Belleville Sub, however this portion has been abandoned since 2009.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 02/11/2020
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 5 Favourites
CP 7023, the Air Force painted SD70ACu brings up the rear of train 112, a Vancouver-Montreal intermodal train. This unit is one of 6 specially painted engines all related to areas of the military, which were unveiled by CP on Remembrance Day in Calgary.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 01/08/2020
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 19 Favourites
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