Railfanning Toronto Union Station - Meets, Endless Action, F59PH's, & More!
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- Опубликовано: 1 сен 2016
- In early August, I made the journey to Toronto, Canada, for a 2 week trip. Considering I haven't been up to Toronto in nearly 6 years, I made every day count, and jamming in as much trains as possible everywhere I could. One of the first places I visited, was Toronto Union Station.
Union Station is the hub for all rail travel in Ontario, and Canada as a whole. With nearly 250,000 passengers traveling on trains both arriving and leaving this area daily, there's a constant flow of trains all day. A total of 7 GO Train lines all converge at Union Station, along with 5 VIA Rail routes, 1 Amtrak line, and the 15 minute scheduled Union Pearson Express airport trains. I visited this area on two different occasions, but merged them all into one video. During my two visits, I got treated to some awesome action, and some cool surprises as well.
I started out at a pedestrian bridge, that crosses the busy mainline and the GO Bathurst Storage yard, just to the west of Union Station. Classic CN searchlight signals are present on this section of line, but their days are numbered, with the presence of new hooded "vader" signals. Caught the typical train action here, including the appearance of a GO F59PH. Nice to see them still around and running! Also got some mini horn action from both VIA and UP Express trains, due to workers doing some maintenance to the signals.
Afterwards, I visited both Blue Jay Way, and the infamous Skywalk at Union Station, which provides views of the constant flow of trains arriving and departing Union Station, on the west side. The flagship train of the VIA Rail system, The Canadian, also arrived from its 2,775 mile journey from Vancouver. Awesome to see both F40PH locomotives, and the classic stainless steel Budd Equipment still running together in 2016! Only in Canada! Also caught 2 separate GO F59PH's, seconds apart pulling their respective trains in and out of Union.
All September long, I'll be posting videos from around the Toronto area (GTA) featuring GO, VIA, UP Express, Amtrak, CN, and CP trains! During my trip, I also crossed the border to Buffalo, New York. Lots of great CSX and Amtrak there as well! Stay tuned!
Thanks for watching!
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Welcome back to Toronto!
Thank you, it's always great to be back!
Refreshing to come back to this video and see what it looked like pre covid, it is nowherre like the levels of traffic in this video anymore, but hopefully it will return to near normal once it is safe again!. I just hope covid ends the packed standing room only rush hour trains even at 12 car lengths.
Great Stuff!!!
U got the Canadian? Lucky
Thé MP40PH-3C is loud
awesome train video
Thank you!
***** your welcome and you should check out my new video's on my channel
Was that the Canadian at 18:26 ?
Nice video, and pretty interesting trains. What in the blazes is that thing at 3:50 though? Never seen ANYTHING like it.
Thank you! That is the Union Pearson Express train, runs between Union and Pearson airport. It's been running for over a year now.
It's UPS. I've seen it at pearson airport millions of times.
A Japanese made Nippon-Sharyo DMU!.
There are a live cam...?
You caught the Oldest locomotive that GO Transit has
what are your thoughts on GO's new cab cars? do you find them to be an upgrade to the original cab car's that they use? for me I find to be an awesome addition to GO's ever expanding network of trains. But that's my thoughts on those cab car's. Your opinion always matters to Toronto's railfan communitty
I think they are cool, it's a drastic change from the original cab car design though. The insides are really nice, better than the old ones. Will be interesting if or when GO electrifies its rail corridors. Still getting used to the new paint scheme on the locomotives, the all white front nose just doesn't suit me.
well the new cab cars are safer then the old ones because they don't have that blind spot in the middle not like the Hyundai cab cars for Metrolink
What's the train called at 0:25
VIA Rail Train.
what new cab cars? nice video
Are there still any F40PH hauling passenger trains aside from the Canadian in Toronto?
Most trains actually. The P42s are only used on the Windsor-Quebec City corridor. All Via trains west of Ontario and east of Quebec use F40s.
In fact some F40s are also used ON the Windsor-Quebec corridor even to this day. Via likes using them because rebuilds made them more fuel efficient than the P42s
They should put a Railcam at union station
That would be cool