Caption: This scene is no more. Four hundred thousand square feet of structure has been leveled, and this facility is now what so many other Welland industries have become. A wasteland. The photo shows an unnumbered Stelco unit, a 45 tonner, I believe, interesting as it is equipped with side rods. At the time of this photo, the operation here was known as Stelpipe. There was a long history; before Stelpipe, which was created under a merger of Page-Hershey and Welland Tube in 1985, the two businesses operated by Stelco. In 2005 Stelpipe had gone under, a long strike helping, and Lakeside Steel Corp took over. In 2012 new buyers changed the plant to Energex Tube. In 2014 this operation in turn went under, and the whole property was razed. So now it is rubble. Near the end of the Stelpipe operation the switcher was taken out via flatcar and the track lead pulled up in 2003. In 2009, Trillium relaid track into the plant in order they switch it. Rail history is complicated around Welland; the lead actually connected to former Conrail/CP track and used by Trillium. Barely a block to the north of this steel plant was the old Welland CASO station. I was only able to get a photo of the remains, mostly a tall brick smokestack, when happening upon the area in 1974. It is so sad to see so many years of decline in Welland.