May 19th, 2003
This was a routine railfanning trip to the Bayview Junction/Aldershot area.
Bayview Junction, Ontario
(map) This is where the CN Oakville, CN Grimsby, and CN Dundas subdivisions meet at a great big wye, beside which is the CP Hamilton sub. This location encompasses CN Bayview Junction, Hamilton West, and Hamilton Junction.
Hamilton, Ontario
(map) Hamilton Ontario is an industrial region on the tip of lake Ontario.
Aldershot, Ontario
(map) This is the region between the (abandonned) Burlington West train station and Bayview Junction.
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A two engined Via train rushes through on the Oakville sub, the first with Via's new safety-first paint scheme.
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Two CN engines lead a mixed freight train down the Oakville sub. We can be heard trying to figure out whether it was a CP or CN train, as CP has running rights on those tracks, as we looked through binoculars at the engine's red nose.
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Two old CN yard engines push two boxcars backward through the siding at Aldershot station.
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Via train 95 arrives at Aldershot station behind a fast-paced intermodal.
