This is the 5th and final part of a series. Go here to read part 1 if you wish.
After leaving the Bathurst Street bridge – a very good spot to railfan from – I walked east beside the Toronto downtown tracks toward Union Station.
Another pair of UP Express trains passed me as I walked. I used my telephoto to capture the moment when they passed each other. I like how the Spadina Avenue bridge framed them.
Soon I passed Spadina Avenue and continued on east. A GO Transit train was headed east toward the station, while a VIA Rail train was heading west.
A little patience caught the nose of VIA 6426 in sunshine.
A few seconds later, GO Transit 656 passed under me, pushing the train toward Union Station.
Eventually I got back to the Skywalk, and took a photo from within the overpass and included the CN Tower… as much as I could fit, anyway.
I walked through the Great Hall of Union Station – busy now with people hurrying to and fro – and on to the east end of the station. There’s some construction taking place adjacent to the station.
Earlier, I took a selfie just off the Skywalk, near the Union Pearson Express station.
Here’s a quick map I did showing the downtown Toronto rail corridor.
Red arrows show good railfan locations – at Bathurst Street, Spadina Avenue and the platform just outside the Skyway.
I hope you enjoyed this series featuring GO Transit and more in Toronto! I have a few more Toronto-related posts to come but for now I’ll write about other things. Despite what people in the city might think, there is life outside Toronto! 😉
Hi Steve, I’m an ex-Toronto boy, who worked for CPR as an engineer (not locomotive engineer) at Union Station in the late 70’s, designing the GO system on the Galt Sub. I really appreciate your photos and text.
Onetime I rode the engine up to MacTier, ON (the terminus of the Toronto Division). The locomotive engineer said he did that run every other day. He wished he had taken a photo of the CN Tower (as it was being built) because the unit faced westward from the Union Station shed. It would have been a great series of photos. Thanks again for your photos.
Hi Werner, thanks for your comment. That must have been an interesting job, designing for GO near the start of operations.
The locomotive engineer would have had a great viewpoint for the CN Tower’s construction!