4K - GO and VIA Train Action on the Lakeshore West (Oakville Subdivision)
Автокөліктер мен көлік құралдары
The Oakville Subdivision is known for being one of the busiest rail corridors in Canada and North America. Once owned by the Canadian National Railway, Metrolinx owns the line now and runs a record number of GO Trains, and also VIA Rail Canada trains. CN Freight Trains still run on the far Western end of the line.
I focused most of my attention in the Sunnyside area, between the Exhibition and Mimico GO stations during the morning rush hour. Not only do regularly scheduled GO and VIA trains traverse the line at this hour, but deadheads from the TMC and Willowbrook Matienence Center's pass through here, heading to/from Union Station. VIA's Canadian train also made an appearance, 12+ hours late!
Also threw in some various clips from down the line at Long Branch and Burlington GO stations, as well as some action from the CN Halton Subdivision at the Brampton GO Station.
All locations listed in video.
Thanks for watching!
Video and Content © 2018 MichaelLovesTrains
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Very impressive having such long trains and so many of them. And I love that shot around 7:21 with two together.
@thatoneguy42145
11 ай бұрын
That shot is wallpaper worthy!
@christopherreiff3192
6 ай бұрын
IKR, it looks like these 2 trains are racing
14:12 Look at the way that train shakes!
@courtneyp1578
5 жыл бұрын
Random Railfan I work on those and it feels just as shaky when we are in them!!
@TRtraybloxeey
5 жыл бұрын
When I clicked on 14:12 it looked like it was gonna derail
@TheAbderaman
5 жыл бұрын
because of this old bridge that can cause derailment one day if not changed the tracks and the structure
@courtneyp1578
5 жыл бұрын
RailFanning & Stuff I can't even imagine. All I can say is firsthand is that while I'm at work I feel so much away and sometimes we hit such large bumps (if we go over crossing etc) my feet literally come up off the floor! I'm used to it by now but in the beginning it was terrifying! Its worse in the HEP cars than the LRC but both are still bad!
@railfanningstuff8333
5 жыл бұрын
@abderaman alzemouri The ONR was worse beck in 2012 when it was running from Toronto to Northbay that thing bounced along the whole line from A to B lol The ONR was worse back in 2012 when it was running from Toronto to Northbay that thing bounced along the whole line from A to B lol
4:35 WOW what a lucky shot! Can't believe you caught The Canadian on its way into Toronto! I have always wanted to see this in person!
@davidlisowski5245
5 жыл бұрын
What route does the Canadian take into Union now? Last time I was on it they used the Bala sub and entered from the East.
@cmac9029
5 жыл бұрын
That was the train heading to union from VIA’s TMC at first. The locomotives always lead the direction of travel, but it has to reverse from the yard to Union before heading west.
@cmac9029
5 жыл бұрын
David Lisowski They come down the Bala starting in Capreol, then switch to the Newmarket from washago to Union/lakeshore line
@davidlisowski5245
5 жыл бұрын
Ok. I thought part of the Newmarket sub was lifted between Washago and Barrie.
@cmac9029
5 жыл бұрын
David Lisowski Wait.....I just realized my mistake....😂😂. I even live in Barrie!
Love your videos. They remind me about the time I lived in Mississauga, back in 1978. Used to take the GO Train to Toronto all the time. The trains were still the old ones, and soon the double deckers were introduced and are still in service. Whenever I am back to Canada, the GO train is one of the things that I must do.
Seeing GO Transit trains and CN Freight,Via Rail and Amtrak with high quality view is amazing especially during quarantine
@raymondlee3327
3 жыл бұрын
That Amtrak train is the Maple Leaf to New York City. It's currently suspended due to the US/Canada Border closure.
I have a note about the northbound CN manifest @ 18:26. It has a LAKE ERIE passenger car next to the end of that.
@EpicDrake
5 жыл бұрын
Must be where the crew sleeps...
@MetxsightseerRailfan
5 жыл бұрын
@@EpicDrake ha good one
@brickbunniestv7184
5 жыл бұрын
awesome catch on that one
@sat-one
5 жыл бұрын
Someone probably purchased that car
@mile290productions3
5 жыл бұрын
omg ur so right
18:56 look how it’s all the new metrolinx livery for the entire consist, except the engine is the older scheme 😂
@devvydoesstuff
3 жыл бұрын
that’s why I hate the new metrolinx livery it ruined the look of the trains
@smackingjack425awesome3
Жыл бұрын
@@devvydoesstuff you shouldn’t hate the new livery. It actually works for the rolling stock imo. They didn’t “ruin” it. Why can’t you accept that it works for the company?
It’s amazing how long commuter trains can get!
@nemonemo6366
7 ай бұрын
That long train “commutes” between Toronto and Vancouver.
5:40 Wow! Look at those locomotives!
@adventuresofamtrakcascades301
2 жыл бұрын
F40s
@Jackstermax
2 ай бұрын
I've been inside the cab of 6443, F40PH-2D's re pretty cool!
Don't you just love or hate when the train beat the traffic?
@avionrichardson4473
4 жыл бұрын
Hutu 62yd d Jesuit idiriwri
@tehangrybird345
4 жыл бұрын
Ha ha yeah
@jafo766
4 жыл бұрын
What I hate is the new colour $cheme
@tristinbrowndario280
4 жыл бұрын
i love it
@blakesking6615
3 жыл бұрын
Not how it works irl sadly. These go trains are insanely slow and stop every 5-10 minutes. Driving is way faster.
(7:17) Racing between two GO trains @ Sunnyside.
Watching that VIA bounce and swing over the bridge at 14:12 shows why you don't stand up to pee on a VIA train. On a TGV at 320 km/h yes, VIA at 120 km/h, no.
@lordmisanthrope1949
5 жыл бұрын
Actually that isn't the difficult part. It's when the damn VIA train decides it needs to switch to a different track while you are in the bathroom; it becomes an uncomfortable challenge. I am happy to brag that I was successful without incident. Me 1 Burlington switches 0.
@graythewolf6096
5 жыл бұрын
Hopefully nobody was in the lavatory. And pee/poo didn't slosh out of the toilet and onto the floor. :(
@GamingRailfanner
5 жыл бұрын
Hehe
@fridericusrex9812
4 жыл бұрын
The bumpiness of VIA (and GO) trains is absolutely insane and ridiculous for a so-called 'developed' nation. I've been on flights that weren't so rough in turbulence!
@tehangrybird345
4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂
It's incredible to me that in addition to taking up way more space, the constant drone of cars on the highway are even louder than these enormous 12 car commuter trains trundling by.
I used to do this all of the time (taking still film photographs); I need to do it again! Great video, Michael.
Train #3 (Reversing) ------------- Amtrak #104 ------------- 0:50
@devvydoesstuff
5 жыл бұрын
Burlington Northern #325 Wut why is an Amtrak here
@devvydoesstuff
5 жыл бұрын
BMasterToronto78 I already know
@chickenadobo7649
4 жыл бұрын
The real question is why are they running on reverse without a loco or NPCU facing the direction of travel
@devvydoesstuff
4 жыл бұрын
Chicken Adobo same with the Canadian
@ALuimes
4 жыл бұрын
@@chickenadobo7649 It's deadheading from the yard to the station. The Canadian doesn't serve that sub
Great video! It’s amazing to see all the long Go Trains! I love the scenes at 7:20 and 11:15! The long Via Rail train is fascinating also! I rode it once from Vancouver to Edmonton! Again, excellent video!
@graythewolf6096
5 жыл бұрын
I strongly agree!
@devvydoesstuff
4 жыл бұрын
The long via rail is the Canadian
@KaciCooperations
2 жыл бұрын
And Amtrak is 🇨🇦🇺🇸
18:22 That BNSF auto carrier reminds me of Home Depot
@tehangrybird345
4 жыл бұрын
Yes 😂
PERFECT!!......don,t really get to see to many Via Rail trains on here few and far between hard to find .Well done with this one!
Beautiful Curves..
Outstanding and impressive. Those green locomotives make some distinctive deep sound, like energy waves in the Sci Fi movies. And then absolutely captivating view of that Silver train which had dark blue locomotives in the rear.
Awesome! Have to head west of the city one of these days!
@Michaellovestrains
5 жыл бұрын
Indeed, lots of action for passenger! Be sure to check out Bayview Junction one day too, not as much freights tho as we saw along the Kingston haha
love that shot at 7:13
Amazing video! Love the trains running along side the highway and banked track! Please do another recording on a busier day! :D
Super great Video! Thumbs Up!
With all that rail service people are still sitting in bumper-tp-bumper right next to the tracks. Amazing.
this is beautiful, the fenced off factory behind track 2 in Brampton station is getting a condo built on top of it. it looks really cool
Train #4 ------------- Go #307 Go #654 Go #652 ------------- 1:15
@davidsims200trainstranspor5
5 жыл бұрын
Wow amazing vid
@ns_railfanner7299
4 жыл бұрын
Show off witch is a good thing
Thanks for video. My grandsons loves watcing!
Great shots. But it seriously show a shameful situation. Slow Diesel trains with many of them not having basic push-pull capability. Nevermind the poor track condition. "First world country". Or not.
Awesome Mike. Thanks for investing the time into the videoing and editing!
Great complications, and nice edits. I live on the CN Halton Subdivision, so intermodals all day. (and night)
Great video! Thank you!
Oh my god I know that area I watch them pass by all the time and I will wave and they honk at me great vid 👍
You have great videos amazing
Maravilloso!!!, ojalá tuvieramos estos grandes trenes en Argentina.
Really beautiful shots here!
Me Too! We Love You So So Much!
I love the cab cars of the GO trains
@mxderate
Жыл бұрын
Sounder (Seattle's commuter rail) also has them!
7:10 train race
I like the GO cab cars. Nice design.
Viele Züge, sehr schön!
Those 12-car double deckers are amazing. They would solve a lot of traffic issues here in Manchester GB
0:50 Coming up to see the cousins!
@_tsiatsiaros.k
5 жыл бұрын
:D
@yourlocalskoda4860
4 жыл бұрын
wait amtrak runs into canada?
@iliketrains839
4 жыл бұрын
@@yourlocalskoda4860 yes three actually, two from New York and the other from Seattle (this was edited)
@yourlocalskoda4860
4 жыл бұрын
@@iliketrains839 I mean im from seattle so i know that amtrak runs into canada but i never knew that there was a service from new york.
@iliketrains839
4 жыл бұрын
@@yourlocalskoda4860 yeah Amtrak's Maple Leaf
Thanks for the Sunnyside bridge shots. I used to watch the older single level GO trains trucking on through with a GP40 in the rear heading west when I was a teenager.. I believe you're at the foot of Roncesvalles Ave where King and Queen streets meet. Many memories of Parkdale from my youth (I'm 67).
Love the train race in progress at the 7:12 mark that you recorded. Awesome snag, brother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #HellYeahBrother #TrainsRule
I love the editing style of this video. Subbed.
0:48 Amtrak going backwards! Rare
@franklyspeaking8335
5 жыл бұрын
Xoaquin 2 Romero on its way back to Buffalo NY i take it.
@Mechelle96
5 жыл бұрын
Ok
@MichaelKirkby
5 жыл бұрын
@@franklyspeaking8335 They back into Toronto Union Station, then go forward when departing back to Buffalo.
@MidnightAspec
4 жыл бұрын
mbgmarkal K Maybe the Keystone trains can spare a cab car for this service.
@TheJhn924
3 жыл бұрын
Train gets serviced and reconfigured at Via Rail's Mimico facility about 5kms from where this video was taken... just like The Canadian it reverses from there downtown to Union Station before beginning it's journey.
7:12 was pretty cool.
7:20 what a race
That head end car on the GO train is interesting. I have never seen one like that before.
@roundlakerailfan6853
4 жыл бұрын
You mean the cab cars that look more like locomotives on the one end? Those are the Series 10 Bilevel cars from Bombardier. They're the latest model.
@superbrownsheep3777
Жыл бұрын
@@roundlakerailfan6853 tbh, they look more like trams than an actual train
@roundlakerailfan6853
Жыл бұрын
@@superbrownsheep3777 Doesn't matter. It looks awesome.
Wow! Your best video yet!
Funny looking Conrail trains you got up there.
In 4:10 there were 20 cars & 2 engine's which is 22 wow that's the long train in VIA history
@TrainsfanAlex6060
5 жыл бұрын
That's the Canadian. Goes all the way to Vancouver. Last summer I was on one with 4 engines and over 30 cars
@chopperscruffy
5 жыл бұрын
I went on it last year go on it is amazing
@KTHedleyBassoon
5 жыл бұрын
Zainer Khan its the Canadian
@OntarioTrafficMan
4 жыл бұрын
When I took the Canadian it had 25 cars and 3 engines
beautifully shot
Nice Compilation and a good Rail and Road Traffic
One time I went on the go train and it was awesome
The Sunnyside bridge is a great spot!
Awesome video! Liked and subscribed.
great video bro
So much going on! I love it!
4:09: I'd love to see this train be a high-speed bullet train one day.
@calebweems9392
4 жыл бұрын
No, these bad boys were built between the 40s-50s, and look far better than a pen on rails.
@adventuresofamtrakcascades301
2 жыл бұрын
@@calebweems9392 agreed. We don't need speed to ride the train. All we need to do is to sit back, relax and enjoy the ride
@Neville60001
2 жыл бұрын
@@adventuresofamtrakcascades301, yours and Caleb's hatred of HSR aside, we need to do this, and we needed to do it, as the saying goes, _yesterday_ . You've both heard about reducing carbon footprints due to carbon causing global warming, right? Well, the Windsor-Quebec City corridor needs to have electrically-powered rail transport, as does the other corridor in Canada and the rest of the country in general. We can't stay stuck like this, no matter how much you and Caleb and others that think like you two love the current set-up.
@Neville60001
2 жыл бұрын
@@calebweems9392,40 and 50-year-old passenger trains are great for a tourist railway to run, but not so great for a government-run mass transit company like VIA Rail to be running. VIA should be running more modern passenger trains anyway, like the Viewliner cars built by Budd (and now by CAF) that Amtrak uses on its long haul routes; hopefully, when VIA gets the new Siemens trainsets, the company also considers getting the Viewliners with the big windows for both the _Canadian_ route and the _Ocean_ route.
Happy Sunday! 🌙
@KaciCooperations
2 жыл бұрын
@The guy who likes trains 🚆 E pele yes
8:30 old go train cab car with the horn.
Super video amigo !!! Saludos desde argentina !!😉👍
@dozilwolf_196
5 жыл бұрын
Oeh, estamos al lado porque soy de Chile... xD
Nice you got The Canadian train.
Very nice video!!
Excelente video!!
Super video!
The length of the GO trains is a good example of a city and transit that grow together. Startup systems often run small trains infrequently because ridership takes decades to build. GO is running 12-car trains that are standing room only during rush hour, you don't build that overnight.
@Train_Chaser-KeiTruckUrbanist
Жыл бұрын
Its been around since the 70s i thunk
Excellent footage!
A real F40PH with a engine not a Hollow shell @ 6:10. Sweet video dude :)! Keep the GO tranist and via rail videos coming
@railyardfilms6491
5 жыл бұрын
At least u had a excellent time
@cameron.s.9368
5 жыл бұрын
MassDotFan1062 Productions The majority of VIA rails fleet is actually F40PH-2D's. They have double the f40's than the P42's and are a very common sight. That's one thing we got on Amtrak for now
@ianj7194
5 жыл бұрын
Sill have F40s on Caltrain in the San Francisco bay area as well. Always grest to see them.
@KaciCooperations
2 жыл бұрын
I don’t think it was the F40PH instead of this. But the model is slightly almost same
@easternroutemainlinevideos6823
2 жыл бұрын
@@KaciCooperations that is a F40 on the ViA rail train at 6:11
The GO trains will always be my favourite, smooth and comfy u almost can’t feel the bumps and noise while traveling... the most expensive VIA rail not so much.
Fantastic video! Subbed.
Nice trains ! 👍🏻
great shots.
At 4:11 the canadien to Vancouver
@KTHedleyBassoon
5 жыл бұрын
Minecraft Gamer de l’Assomption from
@AMT1345
3 жыл бұрын
Toronto
This is my first time seeing a via train with a observation car shape like a bullet nose
@railvidoer
5 жыл бұрын
The "bullet nose" as you call it is actually the tail end car. They are called Park Series cars and each one of the 18 cars is named for one of Canada's National or Provincial Parks.
@davidlisowski5245
5 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately just 14 left on Via now.
3:32 now thats something you don't see everyday 2 via rail trains helping each other
Great video.
High frequency train between Quebec city and Toronto will be great if we actually get it done. It will be a category 5 track, so correct me if i'm wrong, it will reach in some zone 150km/h.
I remember when the last GO stop was Pickering......they used those "happy smile" Bud cars......and every now and then a Turbo train with the red nose would roar by.....Pickering was two lane highway and fields. Now it's gangland.
Fun fact: 0:01 that is close to the exact filming location where mighty machines had filmed in 2004 about the go train
@CSX_Doolittle
4 жыл бұрын
Tyler 520 that is true the hole episode was filmed in Canada
@siriusxakanscaleguy7147
3 жыл бұрын
@@CSX_Doolittle you mean THE ENTIRE SHOW WAS FILMED IN CANADA
the green go transit, my favorite bilevel train
Great page by the way!
Very beautiful😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Nice footage
I loved the Go Train when I lived in the GTA!
7:12 Nice train race
7:17 look at this it’s both go trains side by side one that’s got his headlights ablaze and the other who has got flashing headlights
The F40PH is a common locomotive on Via rail
1:56 3 train meet
@jamesmartin9731
5 жыл бұрын
1 of 2 of them must've been express
@devvydoesstuff
3 жыл бұрын
@@jamesmartin9731 I thought all go transit trains are commuter
60% GO Transit 40% Via Rail 1% Amtrak
@mxderate
Жыл бұрын
20% Canadian National
8:27 saw a European bus 🚌
1:11 12 car train
I love American trains
Oh, I know where you shot this from! It's the Polish Bridge near the corner of Roncesvalles and Queen, interconnecting with King. 😁
Have a great day
Awesome video
Sure I have to get up at 6 in the morning every morning but fuck do I ever love taking the go train to work from Aurora to Toronto. Love these metal beasts
I see the Toronto to New York train backing up. I guess this is in preparation for the ~8:30ish departure? When does it pass by heading backwards?