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Caption: Like shooting fish in a barrel.
After running out of batteries standing trackside just as CN #577 departed Malport Yard (about a kilometre up the road), I quickly swapped in some new ones and zipped down Torbram Road to catch them at the crossing just to the south. A pair of CN GP40-2L(W) units, rare to find on the mainline but the soup du jour of 577, haul their train around the bend from the Halton Sub onto the Weston via the low speed north service track on a hazy spring morning.
The junction point of Halwest (officially by Hwy 407 on the left in the distance, in Brampton) is the meeting point between the busy Halton Sub mainline from Burlington to Vaughan, and the mostly passenger Weston Sub from Toronto to Brampton (where we are right now was taken just across the city limits in Mississauga). 577 was at the time the regular CN-CP interchange train, taking CP cars to West Toronto/The Junction and CN cars back to MacMillan Yard in Vaughan.
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Love this, I never got to shoot the daylight transfer and boy did I ever miss out, occasionally when 549′s dies over night and goes in early morning into Lambton it’s shoot able but not as easy as it used to be, great work Dan!
Thanks Eric. Yes, back a few years ago #577 was pretty easy to shoot. It was always a late morning/early afternoon run, and the RTC had to juggle it in between the afternoon Bramalea GO trains and get it back before the evening ones began. Things would come up and it would frequently delay them, once even severely when #577 stalled on leaves on the hill to Etobicoke North right before the GO rush and had to double its train.