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While I usually remark that I spend a lot of time here, one must not remiss the Men and Women who work this line day in and out.. they spend far more time down here then I do, I just tote my big camera every once in a while.. And this is the kind of scene I love to shoot, gritty Hamilton, Dofasco smokestacks, tank cars.. holding tanks for Ruetgers Canada (formerly VFT) at right, and the Orange of G&W looks really really good here. Too bad 2117 has already gone tits up only a month after coming online - let's hope it's rebuilt quickly.
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Caption: While I usually remark that I spend a lot of time here, one must not remiss the Men and Women who work this line day in and out.. they spend far more time down here then I do, I just tote my big camera every once in a while..

And this is the kind of scene I love to shoot, gritty Hamilton, Dofasco smokestacks, tank cars.. holding tanks for Ruetgers Canada (formerly VFT) at right, and the Orange of G&W looks really really good here. Too bad 2117 has already gone tits up only a month after coming online - let's hope it's rebuilt quickly.

Photographer:
Stephen C. Host [1535] (more) (contact)
Date: 03/19/2018 (search)
Railway: Southern Ontario Railway (search)
Reporting Marks: RLHH 2117, QGRY 2301 (search)
Train Symbol: 0700 yard job (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Hamilton (search)
City/Town: Hamilton (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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5 Comments
  1. Snake2
    April 27, 2018 at 2:31 pm

    Steel Steve..returns to his homeland….What will happen to engineers like Ronny Belbeck when the CN takes back over?

  2. angelok
    April 27, 2018 at 6:38 pm

    I guess it wasn’t made to haul 8000 tonne trains up the hills…..

  3. Joseph Bishop
    April 27, 2018 at 7:35 pm

    The trio of geeps on 597 sounded pretty darn good throttling up out of Caledonia though!

  4. Stephen C. Host
    April 28, 2018 at 1:07 pm

    Ahh young Joe, it did sound good but not for long, doesnt take too much time to get to 25 mph.

    GEXR has the best show in town, 5 mile long acton grade for a westbound and getting up to 60 mph on either side of Guelph is a show you cannot afford to miss with the emd’s.

    What i heard in caledonia reminded me of csx departing wallaceburg, a short burst of power.

    Steel steve has heard good shows in hamilton with westbounds climbing up grade under ferguson ave :)

  5. Joseph Bishop
    April 28, 2018 at 2:06 pm

    If you do a heavy train that is Brantford bound, the throttling up out of town is much better than Hagersville bound! But I see your point haha
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