Caption: Rolling west into the 4:30pm sunset, RailAmerica GP40 4096 heads up the matching LLPX duo of 2210 and 2236 on Goderich Exeter Railway train 431, crossing over Fletcher's Creek while exercising running rights on Canadian National's busy Halton Subdivision from MacMillan Yard back to the Guelph Sub (at Georgetown). 4096 is back on her old stomping grounds, as she was built in 1966 for CN as 4006 and later renumbered 9306 before being retired and sold.
This segment of track in Brampton was undergoing triple tracking for increased GO Transit train service, which would branch off less than a mile away, just east of the diamond and station downtown. The new bridge span over Fletcher's Creek can be seen installed in the background for the future 3rd track, which would run where the photographer is standing. About 3 cars down is the switch to the Dixie Cup Spur, serving the Georgia-Pacific (former Dixie Cup Company) plant off Queen Street. The switch would be removed for installation of the third track and never reinstalled - the spur would fall into disuse and be ripped up by April 2013.
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