Caption: December 1978, T.T.R. North Storage tracks (north of the main, west of Spadina),
On the flat car: TTC Track Plow # 10 is ready for shipment to Saint-Constant. (Trackside Guide reports unit stored indoors - not on display).
( the Trackside Guide records ex TTC TP-11 (NSC 1945) at the Halton County Radial Railway).
In the background, at the CN Spadina Coach yard:
1) Two ( 2 ) Northlander train sets – Werkspoor TEE powered!.
2) ex CN Tempo equipment in Via colours – this equipment is now the Algoma Central tour train (formerly D&RGW Ski Train).
3) CN 'Car- Go – Rail' box car in CN passenger livery – a regular attachment to the tail end of the daily Super Continental
4) Hawker Siddeley built single level GO Transit equipment on the adjacent T.T.R. North Storage tracks.
December 1978 Kodachrome by S. Danko
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Nice catch! That probably would have been loaded on the spur that went into TTC’s Hillcrest Shops, lifted by CN (who had switching rights along the north side of CP’s North Toronto Sub) and taken to Leaside before ending up here…