Railpictures.ca - Stephen C. Host Photo: US Steel had recently purchased Stelco – but not much has changed at the Hamilton Works on this summer day. Remote Control SW900 Stelco #84 is switching gondolas in the main inbound/outbound yard – all blast furnaces were operating and US Steel was recieving at least two switches per day. Traffic consisted mostly of steel billets for export – however the Steel Train (Joint CN/SOR) also continued to operate. Note the vintage crossbuck. Today the blast furnaces are idle at Hamilton, no steel is being produced, a small Galvanizing line is operating, and the coke ovens continue to turn Coal into Coke for export to other US Steel blast furnace operations. This amounts to approximately a couple tank cars a week are switched into or out of US Steel Hamilton, a pittance compared to the 80 or so loaded cars daily being switched out by CN and CP at the time of this photo. | Railpictures.ca – Canadian Railway Photography

US Steel had recently purchased Stelco - but not much has changed at the Hamilton Works on this summer day. Remote Control SW900 Stelco #84 is switching gondolas in the main inbound/outbound yard - all blast furnaces were operating and US Steel was recieving at least two switches per day. Traffic consisted mostly of steel billets for export - however the Steel Train (Joint CN/SOR) also continued to operate. Note the vintage crossbuck.
Today the blast furnaces are idle at Hamilton, no steel is being produced, a small Galvanizing line is operating, and the coke ovens continue to turn Coal into Coke for export to other US Steel blast furnace operations. This amounts to approximately a couple tank cars a week are switched into or out of US Steel Hamilton, a pittance compared to the 80 or so loaded cars daily being switched out by CN and CP at the time of this photo.

Caption: US Steel had recently purchased Stelco - but not much has changed at the Hamilton Works on this summer day. Remote Control SW900 Stelco #84 is switching gondolas in the main inbound/outbound yard - all blast furnaces were operating and US Steel was recieving at least two switches per day. Traffic consisted mostly of steel billets for export - however the Steel Train (Joint CN/SOR) also continued to operate. Note the vintage crossbuck.

Today the blast furnaces are idle at Hamilton, no steel is being produced, a small Galvanizing line is operating, and the coke ovens continue to turn Coal into Coke for export to other US Steel blast furnace operations. This amounts to approximately a couple tank cars a week are switched into or out of US Steel Hamilton, a pittance compared to the 80 or so loaded cars daily being switched out by CN and CP at the time of this photo.

Photographer:	Stephen C. Host [1535] (more) (contact)
Date:	06/30/2008 (search)
Railway:	Industrial (search)
Reporting Marks:	Not Provided
Train Symbol:	Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS:	Stelco Industrial trackage (search)
City/Town:	Hamilton (search)
Province:	Ontario (search)
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