Caption: Right Time, Wrong Train.

Creatures of habit, early morning commuters await the arrival of their Toronto-bound GO train, "the 8:08 from Bramalea" (formally known as train #210 from Georgetown), on the middle platform, on the south track, just as they do every morning. Except today, things are a little different. It's now 8:14am and the usual GO that was supposed to arrive 6 minutes ago is a no-show, replaced by a long CN freight train rumbling through on the opposite side of the platform.

Yup, you guessed it: the CN Rail Traffic Controller, for whatever reason, held the GO at Brampton and ran this monster of a CN #394 ahead on the single track section. Motoring east on the north track with 15,400 horsepower on the head end, shiny CN SD70M-2's 8828 & 8840, yellow UP SD60M 2273, and black IC 6050 muscle their train eastward to Concord, while anxious commuters peer down the track looking for the headlight of their GO train. After the tail end of the freight clears, the GO will get the green light, and arrive at Bramalea 10 minutes late to pick everyone up.

It's business as usual on the railway, and just another day taking the GO into The Big Smoke.