Caption: CNE season is in full swing as GO Transit APCU 9862 trails a westbound Lakeshore line commuter train out of Exhibiton GO Station. Passengers make their way to the overhead pedestrian bridge to cross the tracks south to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition, held seasonally every year for a few weeks in August-September), as others stand around having a smoke.

The train in on CN's busy Oakville Sub west of downtown Toronto in the industrial Liberty Village district. Visible to the north along the station platforms is a small yard (some references call it CN's Strachan Avenue yard), many old factory buildings, and some of the sidings and industrial leads. A Penn Central boxcar is spotted on the siding for Central Warehouse. The long industrial lead on the incline connects to the Mowat Avenue Lead, and curves north along the side of Mowat to more industrial sidings around Liberty Street (including for Toronto Carpet Manufacturing, and GE's lamp factory). Dempster's (Canada Bread) had a bakery in the distance for many decades until closing in the early 2010's.

GO 9862 (originally converted from Ontario Northland FP7 1513 into a cab control/HEP unit for the startup of GO's Georgetown line in 1974) would be renumbered to 904 next year, retired and sold to Tri-Rail in 1991, and eventually end up at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum.

Bill Grandin photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection negative.

Alternate angles of Exhibiton station:
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=46613

http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=35906