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Caption: I lived in Sydney from 1979 to 1984. Sydney Steel was still going fairly strong at that point, mainly producing rails for CN. There were roads around the plant that occasionally allowed you a glimpse of a switcher outside the plant working the interchange. I'm not 100% certain but I think Sysco interchanged with Devco, not with CN directly, and Devco took the CN traffic the 1/4 mile or so to the CN yard.
#8 was a GE 80 tonner. It was built for DOSCO in 1958 and worked its entire life in this plant. It was likely scrapped on site after the mill shut down in 2001, if not before that.
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That is awesome to see Glenn…I think both SYSCO and ALGOMA were making rails at that time…sadly we have no rail production in Canada today…Sydney Steel (DOSCO) saved countless lives by inventing “flake free” rail steels…a Metallurgical Engineer by the name of MACKIE determined that Hydrogen dissolved in the molten steel created tiny flakes (cracks) that weakened the rails in service…for a period of time ( 1930’s ish) all rails in North America that used the lower H2 method had MACKIE’s name on every rail
Nice to see obscure Critter Pics. Thanks for posting.