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Caption: How the mighty have fallen - again. Stelco is being purchased by Cleveland Cliffs - and this won't be great news for our Stelco, especially Hamilton. We'll see what happens, but if scenes like this come back I won't complain. Stelco 89, delivered to Hamilton in 1964 and lived it's entire life here until being transferred in 2019. Much of what you see here is now gone, as Stelco has eliminated a large number of buildings to save on property taxes. I'd love to see major steel processing come back here with some Steel mill locomotives, but my bet is this property is closed and it's all moved on-site to Nanticoke. Today this facility uses Trackmobiles for car movements.
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I like the style of the handrails. No rubber hose for the air brakes, the metal piping and stop cock are also absent, (for the hose to screw onto). No long strings of cars for this loco.
By this time thees cars only handle tanks of chemicals used in the coke making process and finished steel coil cars. upwards of 20 to 30 at a time for the coil cars.
in the past there were cuts of gondolas and when the blast furnace was operating, bottle cars, scrap cars, steel billet cars, casting cars and so on. Usually short trains except the inbound outbound shipping stuff.
They have a lease on this property for another 33 years (with 100 years of renewal options after that). I think they have also made significant investments in upgrading the Z-line there. I would like to think that moving it is not cost-effective at this time
I hope cliffs brings more manufacturing to Hamilton. We will see.