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May 5th, 2003
My girlfriend and I took a long distance trip to Newtonville, where the CP Belleville and the CN Kingston subs are more or less side by side for several kilometres. We stayed there much of the day and managed to catch both a GO unit in freight service and three CN business cars heading to Montreal.
Newtonville, Ontario
(map) This community is about an hour East of Toronto. Through the area the CP Belleville sub from Toronto to Montreal, and the CN Kingston sub on the same routes run parallel.
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A CP intermodal train heads Eastbound through Newtonville, where the CP Belleville and CN Kingston subs run only a few feet apart for several kilometres.
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A Via F40 leading 3 LRC cars heads quickly Westbound across Lakeshore road at the Western tip of Newtonville.
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A P42 and 5 LRC Via cars make haste Eastbound moments after the previous Via train.
June 30th, 2004
The third day of Laura's and my honeymoon saw us at Newtonville for the middle part of the day. In the evening we took a sight-seeing flight out of Guelph airfield which lasted a little under two hours. In that time we travelled from Guelph to Guelph Junction to Cambridge back to Guelph Junction to Burlington to Toronto, around the CN tower, back toward Hamilton, up the Hamilton sub, back again to Guelph Junction, up Guelph Line road to the streetcar museum after taking a brief tour to take pictures of southbound OSR, and finally took pictures of GEXR 431 stopped for a hot journal at axle 271 before coming in for landing.
June 2nd, 2005
The OBRY runs 2 days a week across the Brampton diamond. We caught them going toward Streetsville, as well as catching NS #327/328 in the morning and some other interesting trains in the evening.
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A CP Manifest freight train heads West.
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A CP Westbound with both an interesting mix of freight and of power heads under the bridge at mile 174 Belleville sub.
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CN #148 heads East.
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A lengthly westbound passes on the Kingston sub.
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A CP intermodal heads by mile 174 Belleville.
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CN #309 heads West on the Kingston sub.
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One last eastbound passes us for good measure.
June 19th, 2005
Laura and I woke up at dawn in Colbourg and worked our way home, stopping at Newtonville and CP's Toronto (Agincourt) yard on the way.
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CP #120 Expressway heads under the Stacey Road bridge.
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A Via train rushes eastbound looking, in the words of Laura, like a slug.
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Another CN intermodal heads West under Stacey Road.
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Another of the large selection of Via trains on the Kingston sub passes under Stacey Road.
June 4th, 2006
Returning from visiting family, we stopped to see what was in the yard at Ste-Thérèse, checked out Dorion and caught an AMT commuter train with the new Bombardier bi-levels, went on to Coteau where we found CN #326 with a CN-rental-CN-CSX-CN-CSX lashup, caught CP #239 meeting CP #138 at Belleville, stayed at Cobourg for dinner and a few trains, and caught CP #152 at Newtonville in failing light after just missing the expressway with 2 GP40s! Total: 14 trains shot, a couple more seen, and a few leapfrogged. Not bad for a quick drive home.
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CP #152 crosses under Newtonville Road in failing light.
January 21st, 2007
Saturday we missed an EMD extra through Guelph. Not wanting to miss it again, we went off to Newtonville in the hope that it would be heading east Sunday. It did, eventually, as CN #436, but by the time it came it was somewhat dark. We saw around 20 other trains through the day as well. Tally for the day: CP westbound, VIA #43, CP westbound, VIA #60, VIA #44, CN 371, CN #149, VIA #57, CP #310, CP #153, VIA, CP #122, CN #874, VIA #46, CP #198, CN #305, missed CN #369 with a DPU, CP #121, CN #363, VIA #66, CN #148, CP #116, CN #376, and CN #436 with 8 class 66s in tow. CN #308, #309, #363, and several others passed or parked while we were at Belleville, but we concentrated on CN #436.
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A CP westbound intermodal passes under Newtonville Road.
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VIA #43 zips through under Newtonville Road.
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Another CP westbound intermodal passes through Newtonville as VIA #60 passes on the nearby CN tracks with VIA 6429.
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CN #371 heads west with CN 2204 trailing.
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VIA #44 comes around the tail end of CN #371 and heads under Newtonville Road.
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CN #149 heads for Toronto with 2 SD75is.
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VIA #57 heads for Toronto.
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CP #310 grain train heads for Montreal.
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CP #153's power eludes the camera as it passes under Newtonville Road.
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A westbound Via passes with two trainsets.
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CP #122 expressway, CP's highest priority train, heads for Montreal.
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VIA #46 heads east.
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Another Via westbound zips by.
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CN #874 grain train heads for Montreal.
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VIA #46 heads for Ottawa.
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CP #198 makes a run for Montreal.
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CN #305 passes by slowly shortly after sunset.
August 12th, 2007
After visiting friends in Whitby, we went up to Stacey Rd in Newtonville for a couple of hours, catching VIA #44, CN #371, VIA #57, and CP #122 before getting rained out.
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VIA #44 whistles as it passes under the Stacey Rd overpass.
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CN #371 comes around the corner.
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VIA #57 heads for Toronto.
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CP #122 Expressway makes its way east as the rain gets more intense.
May 25th, 2013
We stopped for two in Newtonville on our way through breaking a very long trainspotting drought, and then stumbled across the Toronto Railway Historical Association's Doors Open display when we got downtown, which we were not expecting.
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A CP ethanol unit train heads west through Newtonville.
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A CP stack train heads west through Newtonville.
November 8th, 2021
I met with a colleague to do some work near Newtonville, catching CP 142 with a light rail set heading east on the Belleville sub as we prepared to head back.
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CP 142 heads east through Newtonville with a light rail set on a flat.
