December 10th, 2005
Laura and I got up rather early to go see the morning 'rush' on the CP Mactier sub outside Vaughan Intermodal Terminal, encouraged along by a mailing list message suggesting CP #106 would have an ES44AC GEVO leading. We also knew CP #230 had CP 5863, the last large multimark I needed from CP's active fleet. As we were getting ready to go, we heard CP #230 get its clearance to Hamilton and so we went to Guelph Junction to see it before it left. We saw it there but it was still too dark to shoot it, so we went to Hamilton West and waited for it there, where we saw NS #327 and CN #392. We then worked our way toward Vaughan, catching CN #399 and #385 around Milton. We finally got to VIT but never did see CP #106 -- it was still not in the area by the time we left. We did, however, see CP #103 and #105 both with SD90s and the former with a different ES44AC GEVO leading than we headed out expecting. To finish it off, we shot OBRY doing excursions at Inglewood on the way home.
Vaughan, Ontario
(map) Vaughan is just South of Bolton on the CP Mactier sub and is host to CP's Vaughan Intermodal Terminal.
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CP #103 leaves Vaughan Intermodal Terminal with a GEVO leading and an SD90/43MAC trailing.
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CP #103's mid-train helper passes.
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CP #274 passes between the wye switches at Vaughan with 2 SD90/43MACs for power.
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Vaughan yard power SOO 769 appears briefly while switching the yard.
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CP #105 takes off with 3 SD90/43MACs, 2 up front and one in the middle.
December 23rd, 2006
We went to the Halton sub hoping for CN #278. We caught CN #271 at Silver Junction in Georgetown, CN #278 at Brampton GO station, then, with nothing else in the area, wandered up to Vaughan Intermodal Terminal to see what was happening there. CP #103 showed up shortly after we did with 5 AC4400CWs and 6 autoracks to pick up its intermodal cars, a yard job was working, and CP #104 took off with two SD90/43MACs light power. We returned home via Streetsville, where we just missed a CP eastbound, then headed to mile 30 where we caught CN #393 and #422, the latter being the only CN train of the day lacking foreign power.
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CP #103 pulls to a stop outside of Vaughan Intermodal Terminal with 5 units and 6 cars.
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A Vaughan Intermodal Terminal yard job comes down the lead with a long cut.
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CP #103 backs down the yard lead at Vaughan Intermodal Terminal to pick up its train.
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CP #104 comes out of Vaughan Intermodal Terminal light power after dropping off its train.
July 28th, 2007
We stopped for an hour at Vaughan Intermodal Terminal for an hour on our way to a gathering near Markham, catching CP #103, CP #102, and an extra Emery job.
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CP #103 leaves Vaughan Intermodal at yard speed.
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CP #102 enters Vaughan yard as an Emery Extra patiently waits.
April 11th, 2009
With a serious case of cabin fever setting in and beautiful weather outside, we went to the Galt sub for an unidentified westbound, came back for lunch, then went to mile 30 for an eastbound and rerouted CN Q199. With nothing else in the area we headed up to Tottenham to shoot the South Simcoe tourist train and then went to VIT for a southbound before returning home.
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CP #220 passes VIT with an Olympic unit leading, finally giving me one in daylight more than a year after they went into service.