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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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<b> Staring Down The Unstoppable </b> <br> <br> 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
Among the sea of coaches in the modern 2-tone green scheme, 3 F59PHs sit awaiting their next duties in GO’s Willowbrook Yard. The 557 pictured here is facing west from being an assigned switcher but would take a trip around VIA's wye later in the day to face east for a return to service.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: GO Transit
Date: 08/17/2021
Location: Toronto - Etobicok…
Province: Ontario
Comments | 19 Favourites
CN 4102 leads a triplet of GP38s on L549 as they head northwest through Weston GO in the darkest hours of the night with Mac Yard interchange traffic from the CP at Lambton. As much as I have a dislike for the look of many new GO Stations, the LED platform lights make night shooting much more bearable.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/04/2021
Location: Toronto - Weston
Province: Ontario
7 Comments | 15 Favourites
As the clock nears 1300h on this beautiful September day, CP 40B rips around the bend on the approach to WSS Lovekin leaving behind the Toronto urban sprawl hell as it heads eastbound on the Belleville Sub. This was the 4th and final spot I chased this train with some buddies today, and was definitely the best of the 4 I ended up at. it sure is a treat to see the classic CPR business train out and about again!
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 09/25/2021
Location: Newcastle
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 14 Favourites
<b>It Don't Get Much Better Than This</b> <br><br> Here on a beautiful June day we see CP 9-WGA-08, a Herzog GPS Ballast train take the curve at the West Toronto Junction in some perfect evening light with a pair of classic GMD SD40-2s providing the motive power. Just the lighting and engines alone would make for an amazing catch, but what some of you may not know is that the section of track this train is on is otherwise passenger-only, as the only reason it still exists is so the GO Milton Line trains can enter and exit the Union Station Rail Corridor to and from the Galt Sub. CP owns it though, so they have to maintain it just as if it were any other part of mainline trackage they own. Today, they needed to dump ballast starting at milepost 3 of the Galt, which is located around Sorauren Avenue Park on the section where the Galt & Weston subs parallel each other before both lines amalgamate into the USRC. This meant they had to pull up past the junction, wait for the last Milton GO of the evening to clear, and then back down to where they needed to drop the rocks. After finishing their work down there, they’d continue to dump until mile 17, where they would run around their train and head back east. <br><br> Especially in the year 2021, it truly does not get much better than this right here.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/10/2021
Location: West Toronto
Province: Ontario
6 Comments | 23 Favourites
CN L549, aka the West Toronto Turn is seen here in the early morning hours of June 4th as they head north out of Lambton Yard using the Galt/Mactier connecting track after about an hour and a half of work. They will run on the Mactier for about half a mile, then switch onto the Weston Sub via the CN connecting track and hightail it back to Mac Yard from there. Since 549 is a competing train, once they are on CP tracks they are effectively the lowest priority train in the area, therefore any CP train in the vicinity that needs to run will be able to go before them. This was exactly what I had hoped for, as 549 having to wait for multiple CP trains on the trip to and from Lambton lead to them being a daylight run on the trip back north as you can see here. Seeing this train in daylight is something I’ve been looking for ever since I heard about 549s existence, and finally the stars aligned for it to happen. Perseverance pays off!
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/04/2021
Location: West Toronto
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 8 Favourites
After not running for over 14 months, “The Canadian” finally returned to Toronto today, and is seen here snaking through the Don Valley splitting the searchlights at the north side of Rosedale Siding. Above is the massive viaduct hosting the Abandoned CPR (now Metrolinx-owned) Don Branch.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 05/21/2021
Location: Toronto - Rosedale
Province: Ontario
8 Comments | 19 Favourites
About an hour before midnight on a warm May 18th, CP 4407 (GP38-2) takes the lead of an extra 420 as they pass mile 199 of the Belleville Sub and prepare to enter Toronto Yard. This train confused the hell out of me when I first heard about it coming south on the MacTier, as I had no clue 4407 had even gone up north in the first place (It is one of a few GP38s I pay attention to the whereabouts of). Not to mention the fact that it is a GP38, which are not common at all to see leading mainline trains anymore.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 05/18/2021
Location: Toronto - Agincour…
Province: Ontario
Comments | 11 Favourites
Some of the finest looking and performing GMD passenger units are seen here beside each other at Union Station on a rainy April afternoon. GO 558, built in 1990 has just begun to depart the station for Richmond Hill while VIA 6402, built in 1986 waits patiently for passengers to board before heading east on the Kingston Sub toward either Ottawa or Montreal.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: GO Transit
Date: 04/29/2021
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
CP 6024 & CMQ 9020 are seen here idling crewless on point of quite the mixed bag of a ballast train in Lambton Yard. They had arrived in the late morning after making a trip down from Sudbury, and I believe were originally destined for Vaughan Yard to dump ballast. However, some reason unbeknownst to CP RTC prevented them from doing so, and it was decided to just send the train to Lambton instead.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 04/27/2021
Location: Toronto-Lambton
Province: Ontario
Comments | 7 Favourites
CP 101 moves through the block signals at mile 201 of the Belleville Sub on a nice sunny April afternoon. Nothing special for power as usual, but it was a new spot for me and one I don't recall seeing any other photos from.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 04/13/2021
Location: Toronto-Scarboroug…
Province: Ontario
Comments | 5 Favourites
CP 2-244 rockets east under the Mount Pleasant signals with a BNSF ACe in the lead, and behind the pair of barns from April 19th's GPS train on the Hamilton Sub. This particular 244 was just the ACe and a single autorack until West Toronto, where they were requested to back into Lambton and grab the empty ballast train that had been sitting since the night before and take it back to Toronto Yard.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 04/20/2021
Location: Toronto-Rosedale
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 11 Favourites
On a sunny April morning, CN 397 works its way through Stewarttown with an SD70M-2 leading and an IC Deathstar fourth out.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 04/04/2021
Location: Stewarrtown
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 7 Favourites
VIA 6446 is seen here leading 4 other F40s and 10 assorted budd cars on an equipment move (numbered as VIA #7) destined for either Winnipeg or Vancouver. They are seen here proceeding east through mile 21 of the CN York Sub pretty much matching the exact route and timing of The Canadian (remember that thing??). I believe this is the first time a VIA has traversed the York since they were forced to cancel the Canadian at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, as all the other equipment moves VIA ran in 2020 used the Bala from its starting point instead of Doncaster. I was told that the reason they took the more sophisticated route today was due to ongoing bridge work on the Bala in the Don Valley.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: VIA Rail
Date: 03/21/2021
Location: Toronto - Thornhil…
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 20 Favourites
Bloor GO Station is a very interesting spot, as in current times it is quite a mix between modern architecture and very old. The station itself along with the entire Weston Sub finished receiving a major upgrade in 2015, making it one of the more modern aspects of the area. On the contrary, there are many old buildings and other things serving as a reminder of how industrial The Junction area used to be. A couple of examples are seen here in this photo with some old buildings and a smokestack on the left hand side, as well as the Wallace Avenue bridge right behind the signals, which was built in 1908 originally. Here at Bloor on a nice sunny morning, GO F59PH #559 leads the last of the morning's Milton line trains toward the USRC on the Galt Sub. The F59s only date back to the beginning of the 90's, which is really not that old when you compare it to a couple other things in this photo, but as far as trains go, 30 years and counting is a pretty long life, especially for a commuter railroad.
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: GO Transit
Date: 04/08/2021
Location: West Toronto
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 11 Favourites
On a nice chilly February afternoon, the one and only 8952 makes an appearance on point of M305 as they pick up speed after a Belleville re-crew. Last time I had seen this guy it was missing a ditchlight, this time the top headlight is the one out.... hopefully next time I shoot this thing leading all the lights are functional!
Name: Liam MacDougall
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 02/20/2021
Location: Belleville
Province: Ontario
Comments | 14 Favourites
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