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An enthusiast interested in trains since my high school days (1939-45) at Port Credit High School (beside the CN main line), although not always with a camera. Recently moved to Guelph from Kingston Ontario. Still have my Pentax K1000 but mainly shoot digital now. *All photos copyright Bill Thomson.
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Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | Builder/Manufactur… |
Date: | 00/00/1958 |
Location: | St. Marys |
Province: |
Ontario |

Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 03/00/1957 |
Location: | Port Credit |
Province: |
Ontario |

Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 00/00/1954 |
Location: | Cooksville |
Province: |
Ontario |

Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 00/00/1957 |
Location: | Cooksville |
Province: |
Ontario |

Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 00/00/1958 |
Location: | Toronto |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Canadian National 4-8-4 6258 rests among other steam engines at the Mimico roundhouse in 1956. One of CN's large fleet of Northerns, 6258 was built by MLW as part of the U2h-class in 1944, making it just 12 years old when this photo was taken. CN was ordering brand new GP9's and RS10/18's at this time, and the end of steam was not far off: 6258 would be scrapped 5 years later in 1961.<br><br>Located in the town of Mimico (now an inner suburb of Toronto) and just to the south of the busy Oakville Sub, the Mimico roundhouse would be demolished in the 60's, the turntable removed and the pit filled in. Presumably this occurred when CN moved its locomotive servicing to the new Toronto (MacMillan) Yard and its more modern diesel repair facility. Today VIA and GO Transit have large servicing facilities in Mimico, but CN's presence here is but a shadow of its former self: a small freight yard to serve the few remaining local customers that use rail.<br><br>[<i>Historical Editor's Note: VIA has a turntable here at their Toronto Maintenance Centre, but it's located in a spot northwest of where the Mimico Roundhouse's turntable would have been. It is unknown if this was a brand new turntable, or if the old Mimico turntable was available and reused in a new pit<i>.]](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CN-6258-etc739-edited-despec-cc2-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 00/00/1956 |
Location: | Mimico |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Canadian National "Ten Wheeler" 1322 pauses at Meaford before returning to Collingwood, on CN's Meaford Subdivision in 1958.<br><br>1322, an H6c class Mikado, was built in 1910 for the Canadian Northern Railway. It was donated to the City of Barrie in 1960 (after being renumbered 1531) and survives today owned by the Simcoe County Museum in Midhurst, ON.<br><br><i>[Editor's notes: Operations on CN's Meaford Sub, which originally ran 52 miles to Meaford from Barrie, were transferred when Barrie and Collingwood both stepped in to buy portions of the line in 1996 when CN wanted to abandon it. It is now part of the <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6943><b>Barrie Collingwood Railway</b></a>, with operations contracted to Cando. However, in 2011 Collingwood decided to discontinue rail service over their portion of the line from the CPR interchange at Utopia to Collingwood. The Barrie section of the former Meaford Sub remains active].<br><br>Note, geotagged location not exact.<i>](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CN-1322-Meaford727-edited2-despec-cc-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 00/00/1958 |
Location: | Meaford |
Province: |
Ontario |
![I was working in the Listowell area in March of 1985 and heard on my scanner that there was a plow extra heading south on the CN Newton Sub (later west) to Kincardine. I had time to go to a side road south of town and set up near a crossing and the plow soon appeared. I took my photo just before it passed then WAM, I was bowled over by a sheet of heavy snow and knocked over a fence (I was not injured but it was a shock). I then went to a local restaurant and tidied up my clothing. The resulting photo was average but it brings back memories: CN snowplow 55408 charging across a grade crossing south of Listowel, propelled by a pair of GP9 units.
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<i>[Editor's note: CN plow 55408, a wedge plow built by Eastern Car Co (Trenton NS) in 1937, mets its end not too long ago after avoiding the scrapper once. Once it was retired from CN in the 90's (many lines being abandoned or torn up in the southern Ontario area reduced the need for plows) it was sold to Zubicks in London for scrap. In 1995 the Goderich Exeter Railway traded their plow, 55437, to Zubicks for 55408, as it was in better shape. Known by some as their "orange plow" (they also owned sister 55413 painted black), it continued the fight on mother nature for its new owner until recently, when it was cut up for scrap in Goderich during May 2013.]</i>
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<i>(Note, geotagged location may not be exact)</i>](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CN-55408-Plow-Listowell665-edited-despec-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 03/00/1985 |
Location: | Listowel |
Province: |
Ontario |

Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 01/00/1963 |
Location: | Harriston |
Province: |
Ontario |
![It's 1952 and CN F7A 9046, built July 1951, is nearly a year old as it heads eastbound through Sunnyside (Toronto) on the Oakville Sub, with white extra flags flapping in the wind. <br><br> The green & gold paint livery was the original delivery scheme for these units from GMD London, and was replaced with CN's yellow, green and black scheme in 1954, followed by the noodle and zebra stripes in 1961. Sunnyside Station and its platforms also still existed at this time, and the Gardiner Expressway that now parallels the Oakville Sub was still a few years away from construction. This image was taken from the south side of a now-gone footbridge that spanned the tracks between King St. and the Lake Shore Blvd., approximately half way between the station and Dowling Ave., likely removed when the Gardiner was built. <br><br> <i>[Editor's note: accepted due to rarity]</i>](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/CN-9046-Gold-F7-Sunnyside-ON-1952-Bill-Thomson-img647-edited-despec-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 00/00/1952 |
Location: | Toronto |
Province: |
Ontario |

Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | Oshawa Railway |
Date: | 00/00/1962 |
Location: | Oshawa |
Province: |
Ontario |

Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | Oshawa Railway |
Date: | 00/00/1962 |
Location: | Oshawa |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Another from the Oshawa Railway set, work car 44 sits (with line car 45 behind it) on a siding about half way up the line, somewhere south of the main yard and shops. Another homemade car (built by the OR in 1919), 44 would be scrapped 2 years later in 1964 when the line was de-electrified.
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[<i>Editor's note: After some research, this image may have been taken along the line south of Emma St. west of Court St., along the part of the OR line that is now the Michael Starr Trail.</i>]](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/OR-44-work-car-img1394_1_edited-despec-sat-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | Oshawa Railway |
Date: | 00/00/1962 |
Location: | Oshawa |
Province: |
Ontario |
![CN train #628 with FPA4 6778 is stopped at Guelph Station in the Summer of 1962, with the lead unit still dressed in the yellow, green and black "1954 scheme" colours. Delivered in 1959, the MLW FPA4 and FPB4 fleet only had 2 years before the CN noodle and zebra stripes were first introduced in 1961. By 1963 only a few FPA4's remained in the 1954 scheme, and by 1965 only one (6765). <br><br> [<i>Editor's Addition: According to a timetable from that era, CN train 628 was a daily (except Sunday) morning eastbound passenger train for Toronto via the Brampton Sub (later divided into parts of the Guelph, Halton and Weston Subs), arriving at Union Station in mid-morning.</i>]](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/CN-6778-Guelph-img628650-edited-despec-sat-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | Summer 1962 |
Location: | Guelph |
Province: |
Ontario |

Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | Oshawa Railway |
Date: | 00/00/1962 |
Location: | Oshawa |
Province: |
Ontario |

Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | Oshawa Railway |
Date: | 00/00/1962 |
Location: | Oshawa |
Province: |
Ontario |
![The Oshawa Railway was a small electric regional railway that provided passenger and freight service in the City of Oshawa from the late 1800's until owner CN converted operations from electric to diesel in May of 1964. Pictured here at Oshawa Railway's shops is OR 402, an electric freight motor built new by OR in 1928, retired in 1964, and scrapped by CN in 1969.<br><br><i> [Note: image geotagged for OR's "new" shops, which were located just south of Hillcroft St]</i>](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/OR-402-img1450-edited-despec-sat-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | Oshawa Railway |
Date: | 00/00/1962 |
Location: | Oshawa |
Province: |
Ontario |
![London and Port Stanley Railway boxcab locomotive L1, another of three boxcabs electrics built by GE in 1915 (L1, L2 & L3), switches a hopper downtown in London ON in 1959. For sister L2, click <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=13450><b>here</b></a>.
<br><br>[Editor's note: L1 now resides at the Elgin County Ry Museum in St. Thomas, as seen <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=11424><b>here</b></a>. For an earlier photo of L1 taken by Julian Bernard in 1954, click <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=9561><b>here</b></a>.]](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/LPS-L1-edited-despec-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | London and Port St… |
Date: | 00/00/1959 |
Location: | London |
Province: |
Ontario |

Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | London and Port St… |
Date: | 00/00/1957 |
Location: | St. Thomas |
Province: |
Ontario |
![In 1957 I was on an LP&S excursion out of London, two of their interurban electric passenger cars (10 and 8) were used. On the way we took a box car (to help pay the "rent"). The two cars are seen here switching the boxcar by the LP&S station in St. Thomas, ON.
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<i>[Editor's note: both cars 8 and 10 (built 1915 and 1914 resp. by Jewett) are preserved today, with 8 residing at the Halton County Radial Railway in operating condition, and 10 at the Canadian Railway Museum/Exporail in St. Constant QC. Info from the Canadian Trackside Guide]](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/LPS-StThomas1-edit-despec-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Bill Thomson |
Railway: | London and Port St… |
Date: | 00/00/1957 |
Location: | St. Thomas |
Province: |
Ontario |
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