Looking east near MP 117.2 of CN's Yale Subdivision on the old NWSR. Out of view as the line curves with the Fraser River is the entrance to Thornton Yard (Port Mann). Although not an official railway point the entrance, just around the bend at MP 116.9, is commonly called Flanagan's, named after the Flanagan Bros. who established a mill there in the 1930's. This part of the Yale Subdivision, double-tracked around 1990, is not CTC-controlled: the "main line" up the Fraser Valley and through the Fraser Canyon begins at MP 113.8.

A westbound CN freight approaches the first signal to the Fraser River Bridge at MP 117.5 of the Yale Subdivision, originally the location of GN's Liverpool station and now called Gyproc, named after the Domtar gypsum plant that located here (now Georgia-Pacific). The single track to the lower right is mile zero of CN's Brownsville Industrial Line, where the old NWSR continues on to Brownsville. Domtar's three sidings -- B004, B006, B008, totalling 1200 feet -- have been removed, so too the 165-foot spur (B003) to nearby Westminster Wood Products. Double-tracked with no spurs from Flanagan's to Gyproc, this section of track is now in line with the rest of the Yale Subdivision.

Two locomotives about to pass each other on the double-track approach to the Fraser River Bridge, taken below near mile zero of the Brownsville line. The 4709 is destined for New Westminster; the 5501, Thornton Yard. Technically, the 5501 is entering Thornton since the yard extends east from Fraser River Junction (MP 118.2) to the Vancouver Intermodal Terminal at Hampton (MP 110.7), near the brick yard of the old NWSR.

Gyproc is just around the bend in this view looking east. Middle-left can be seen a tunnel scraper mounted on a CN hopper car, sold as scrap and sitting on the Amix Salvage spur (B010). Only CN and BNSF trains use the trackage from Brownsville through here to Gyproc. Before the BNSF started delivering their own return traffic directly to Thornton Yard, trains as long as 15,000 feet could be seen.

Looking west as the 4709 begins its journey over the Fraser River Bridge. Out of view to the left are the three trestles which converge at Fraser River Junction.

The same view but capturing the abandoned 165-foot Ritchie Bros. spur (B012) and a small CP freight whose head-end is now on the west trestle of the Fraser River Bridge, destined for Brownsville and Tilbury.