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When the 1600 Yard Job arrived in Strathearne Yard, AIM got on the radio telling CN they had more load for them tonight, and the crew decided it was easiest to just go there themselves. Something you don't get to see all that much (AIM shuffles cars themselves between their facility and Strathearne Yard).
Name: James Knott
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 03/12/2026
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
5 Comments | 20 Favourites
Went out this night for the first time in a while. It was a nice night, and the days are getting ever shorter, so I figured what the heck. Soon after, I hear 581 talking to the 1600 about needing to get in the clear, which certainly piqued my interest. Immediately, I wondered if they were at Hooper, a place known for some interesting loads (example <a href="https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=51240" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=50944" target="_blank">here</a>). <br><br>Sure enough, they soon appeared out of the Eastport area with a D9 dimensional and a convoy of trucks following them - including CN and even a PR firm documenting the move. I'd soon come to learn this was a test move, with the goal to get it out on the Grimsby and up to 35mph before taking it back down the N&NW and back to Hooper. I am under the impression the test was to see how the load itself responded to being moved. Sounds like they have shipped it other ways, and are also building another model with different materials to see how it responds (including to drop tests). The load itself is from Westinghouse - and I have no idea what it is but am suspecting it may be a mini reactor of sorts. Curious if anyone knows. <br><br>Chased it but this was the only photo I got. The shadows far too long at the time of day for any other location to work. Was fun nonetheless and got to learn a lot from the people who were being paid to follow it.
Name: James Knott
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/08/2025
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 14 Favourites
The Wabash coming over with what I recall was a pretty huge train. They'd spend the next several hours making a mess of the yard, and may have even outlawed over here if memory serves. I wouldn't stick around - 531 would be leaving Port Rob soon with 3115 on point.
Name: James Knott
Railway: Norfolk Southern
Date: 03/13/2021
Location: Fort Erie
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 11 Favourites
0600 Hamilton Yard spotting cars at Triple M Parkdale.
Name: James Knott
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 08/13/2024
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
8 Comments | 16 Favourites
After spotting six empties at ADM, 514 heads out of Blenheim with their lift of one car, passing by some C&O remnants.
Name: James Knott
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/27/2024
Location: Blenheim
Province: Ontario
Comments | 20 Favourites
BNSF 2926 on point for the 1600 Hamilton Yard Job, complete with a customary case of water, shoving back for a night of switching customers in the Far East.
Name: James Knott
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/11/2024
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 18 Favourites
The newest customer in Hamilton, H.J. Baker (deals in molten sulfur), seen here being switched by CN. Cando is part of the operations at the site.
Name: James Knott
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 4/21/2024
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
Comments | 11 Favourites
Long live the centre cabs! When the NREX end cabs arrived for NSC, I was admittedly a little sad, as I had grown quite fond of the centre cabs I had seen countless times over the past several years. Not to mention, with the demise of the <a href="https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=39036" target="_blank">Columbian Carbon centre cab</a> and more recently the <a href="https://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=51977" target="_blank">Bunge centre cab</a>, they were arguably more rare to find still roaming industrial operations. And hey, if I wanted to see an end cab, there's a better one working Parkdale literally just down the street. <br><br>With one of the NSC end cabs having been involved in an incident on the property a while back, it's still easy enough to find 11 roaming around, much to my delight. <br><br>Things looks a little different at Steel Car now with the barriers and security truck. All vehicles entering and exiting the property now do so through the entrance a little further north.
Name: James Knott
Railway: Industrial
Date: 4/19/2024
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 14 Favourites
Nothing too exciting here photo-wise, but a bit of news to share from industrial Hamilton. The port has been busy installing some new track here, which the 0700 is seen shoving past on their way to Parkland Fuels. <br><br>To give a bit of the lay of the land here - the track in the foreground coming off the runaround is the Yellowline Lead, which is used to serve both Crawford Rail and Yellowline Asphalt. Cars for Crawford (flats of rail) are left outside their facility, effectively blocking access to Yellowline while they're there. <br><br>The new track is further behind the Yellowline Lead, where the newly installed switch comes off the runaround and heads off to the right of the image. I am told (via CP crews) this track is for a new customer who will receive sulfur tanks. A year or two ago CN dropped a tank on the runaround where apparently sulfur had solidified and had to be cleaned by a specialist company, so I wonder if this new track is for them, but for now that is only speculation on my part. <br><br>Further behind on the runaround are gons for Lafarge, who loads slag from nearby Dofasco for shipping out west for slag cement. They are currently served by CP. When I saw the new track going in I assumed it was for them - to get their cars off the runaround. Evidently I was wrong!
Name: James Knott
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 12/06/2023
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 13 Favourites
A light power 562 heading back to Port Rob after dropping one at Vale.
Name: James Knott
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/16/2023
Location: Port Colborne
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 13 Favourites
This angle opened up in March or so with the demolition of those really annoying pipes that obstructed views closer to Burlington Street. Change continues here, as the acid reclamation building in the background is now being demolished, bringing down an <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44992" target="_blank">interesting photo prop</a> that I was told was supposed to be demolished in 2021. Best I was able to do here was midday sun with smokey skies, but hey, better than nothing!
Name: James Knott
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/22/2023
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
5 Comments | 14 Favourites
A rare late day appearance for CN at Stelco, with the 1500 dropping 13 empties with no lift.
Name: James Knott
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/18/2023
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
6 Comments | 20 Favourites
All of this recent 581 talk has had me feeling nostalgic for 551. If memory serves, this was the last 551 to run the Grimsby before 581 took things over, which pushed their arrival back in Hamilton by several hours and really killed most photo ops for what served as a Spring/Summer/Fall highlight for me for a few years. This was one of my favourite locations for shooting 551 and I wanted to shoot it one final time. What's a Hamilton scene without some clapped out vehicles next to the tracks and an obsolete smoke stack? I revisited this location on Wednesday evening only to find the stack has come down at some point in the past year. Not quite the same here without it. <br><br> Looks like the crew has finished work at Empire Steel, Bartram Lumber and Triple M Parkdale, and are headed back towards the yard and ultimately onto Aldershot.
Name: James Knott
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/15/2022
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
6 Comments | 16 Favourites
Crew of 581 at the west end of Parkdale Yard on the north track of the Grimsby, having finished switching customers for the evening.
Name: James Knott
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/14/2023
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
8 Comments | 22 Favourites
1600 Yard Job spotting empties in one of several Triple M locations in Hamilton.
Name: James Knott
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/15/2023
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
8 Comments | 13 Favourites
0700 Yard running around their train on the former Stelco Rod Mill trackage, preparing to switch out Parkland Fuels.
Name: James Knott
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/19/2023
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
Comments | 20 Favourites
Well, it's gone now. Loaded onto to truck and off to be scrapped. This was the last time I saw the Bunge critter working. It had just returned to operation after being sidelined for many months, and from what I have been told only ran for a couple months after this before being sidelined forever. One less cool locomotive to shoot in Hamilton.
Name: James Knott
Railway: Industrial
Date: 09/11/2021
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
6 Comments | 21 Favourites
After watching shadows grow longer for what felt like an eternity, the 1559 Yard Job appeared not a moment to soon from their lunch break to lift Viterra.
Name: James Knott
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 06/17/2022
Location: Thunder Bay
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 16 Favourites
A train usually over late in the night, CP 132 came across today before sunset.
Name: James Knott
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 02/26/2023
Location: Fort Erie
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 12 Favourites
The CN 0700 Yard Job is shoving towards Parkland Fuels as they pass by an impressive dimensional load from Hooper Welding. This is the second such load I have seen in the last two months, with the other <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=50944">here</a>. Even the crew members seemed impressed by this one.
Name: James Knott
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 02/24/2023
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 19 Favourites
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