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![I realized it's been well over a month since I posted anything from Hamilton, and certainly not for a lack of being out around here as I head out for at least a brief amount of time pretty much daily (so long as there's some sun to work with) with the longer days. Here's the 1600 the other night, backing onto their train after switching out Triple M.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG_9941-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 06/28/2021 |
Location: | Hamilton |
Province: |
Ontario |
![A little over a couple of weeks <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=45785" target="_blank">after seeing 562 spot two transformer loads</a> in Port Colborne for the nearby hydro substation, I happened upon them lifting the two empty flats. After a brief and intense downpour, we were treated to some bright sun and a rainbow to boot.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG_9880-2-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 06/27/2021 |
Location: | Port Colborne |
Province: |
Ontario |
![CN L562 and a couple of people out for a nice Saturday cruise squared off in a rather unevenly matched drag race down in Port Colborne, making for this scene. Should have put a loaded tank behind the bike to even things out, I suppose.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG_9443-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 06/12/2021 |
Location: | Port Colborne |
Province: |
Ontario |
![NS C93 with the NS 911 leading (no longer long hood forward, so finally worth paying attention to) sitting on the south track in Fort Erie. This was as far as they would make it.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG_9077-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Norfolk Southern |
Date: | 06/05/2021 |
Location: | Fort Erie |
Province: |
Ontario |
![A couple of days after <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=45465" target="_blank">shooting TH11 here</a>, I made a point to catch the 0700 here before work. They were heading east to make a runaround move before making a switch at Parkland - where CP was also headed at the time. The joys of the joint track of the north end of Hamilton. <br><br>Pictured riding 4726 is Kam - typically I don't like to upload crew shots but Kam is an exception. He is one of the crew members you look forward to seeing while out railfanning, and in fact checks this site out from time-to-time I believe. He was also featured in an <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44591" target="_blank">upload from February</a>.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG_7821-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 05/10/2021 |
Location: | Hamilton |
Province: |
Ontario |
![After dropping a couple of tanks at Ruetgers, TH11 headed back towards the Adams Yard area. I expected to meet them here on their own tracks, but instead found them on the CN N&NW spur, which they would take towards Ottawa Street to clear a switch to lift the interchange. I would <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=45466" target="_blank">shoot CN in roughly the same spot</a> two days later.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG_7778-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 05/09/2021 |
Location: | Hamilton |
Province: |
Ontario |
![It was a day of moving little traffic beyond Port Rob on some relatively rare mileage for the crew of 562. After switching out 421 and building trains for 531 and 539, they took one tank down the Humberstne Spur to Vale in Port Colborne and <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=45303" target="_blank">returned to Port Rob light power</a>, where they immediately headed north on the Thorold Spur light power to retrieve a solitary mill gon out of storage.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG_7470-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 04/25/2021 |
Location: | Allanburg |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Well, you win some and you lose some. When 562 was southbound on the Humberstone Spur with one tank in tow for Vale, they had to wait at the crossing on the other side of Welland Street (at far left of photo) for cars that refused to stop running the activated crossing or heed the horn blasts. As a result of this lost time, I had lost sun on this scene by the time they had come into frame for the shot I had composed. Things flipped for the light power return north, and they arrived to a fully shaded scene, but again had to wait for cars to stop running the crossing - which bought me the time I needed to get some much wanted sun. <br><br>I have done this location once before, but since then, it has changed. Now it allows for a shot of an interesting "meet" on an obscure branchline - in this case an ET44AC and that interesting little relic that the homeowner has evidently decided to preserve (which showed up sometime in the past calendar year). If anyone has any information on it, it would be most appreciated.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/IMG_7382-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 04/25/2021 |
Location: | Port Colborne |
Province: |
Ontario |
![After dropping a lone tank at Vale down in Port Colborne, the crew of 562 made the trip back to Port Rob light power with CN 3114 solo. They're pictured here at the fixed approach signal at CN Yager West on the Humberstone Spur. They'd wait briefly for 531 to clear before getting their pass stop at Yager from the RTC to continue on.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/IMG_7415-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 04/25/2021 |
Location: | Port Colborne |
Province: |
Ontario |
![As I said in a comment on <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44869" target="_blank">Rob's shot of a UP SD70 in Kinnear</a>, things sure have been interesting the past few months on the Hamilton Sub with the substantial increase in seasonal slab traffic this year. Been quite a few extras (2-255s, T50s, and extra yard jobs) as a result, and lots of mainline freight appearances in Aberdeen again too. Basically doing whatever they can to keep cars moving with limited space around here. The most recent example of all of this was these two NS units, which first appeared as a 2-255 from Buffalo on April 7 before running to Welland the following morning as T50 with 50 slab empties. Somehow these were reported traced as being at Wolverton despite never having left Hamilton - another oddity and head scratcher in the slab saga. They stuck around and made another appearance in Kinnear before returning to NS on Saturday's 254.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/IMG_68501-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 04/07/2021 |
Location: | Vinemount |
Province: |
Ontario |
![The Trillium crew uses ex-Stelco 615 to shove BCOL 4624, CN 4100, IC 1506, and one pipe empty for Welded Tube down the Tube Spur from Southern Yard. K&K is scrapping the units along with many others at the former Martech / former Stelpipe facility in Rusholme Road. I pieced it together the other day that the former Stelco 53 was renumbered to 615 as that the address for the facility - 615 Rusholme Road. <br><br>615 died at the gates and was left like that overnight, and it looks like they had to use Welded Tube's centrecab (MPRX 101) on Friday to put it away inside the building and finish their moves. <br><br> It is my understanding that Trillium owns 615 now and use it for contract switching for Welded Tube and evidently for moving scrap units for K&K, but certainly open to discussion and further confirmation on that one.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/IMG_6941-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Trillium Railway |
Date: | 04/08/2021 |
Location: | Welland |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Though shooting CN at Stelco is one of the more easy and predictable things you can do in the north end, CP is far more elusive, and one I had yet to personally lay eyes on. It appears they are going to Stelco again with some degree of regularity (though not nearly as often as CN and not moving nearly as many cars), and they are pictured here shoving into the property with one empty coil to drop. The other traffic appears to be Bell & MacKenzie and Railcare. <br><br>Hat tip to good friend Mark MacCauley for inspiring me to try this angle, something a little different than the traditional vantage.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/IMG_6508-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 03/29/2021 |
Location: | Hamilton |
Province: |
Ontario |
![With the return of longer days comes the return of the opportunity to shoot CN 551 westbound on the Grimsby Sub, seen here having just completed work at Pearce Warehousing and heading for more work on the Halton.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/IMG_6346-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 03/24/2021 |
Location: | Hamilton |
Province: |
Ontario |
![Lesson here - always detour slightly and always have your camera. I was headed to the market to grab a few things Friday morning, and decided to head up to the industrial area to drive west across the north end, just in case. As I passed by Wilcox Street, I noticed some headlights at the far end, that at a quick glance looked like maybe a GP9 running long hood forward. I figured I would check it out, so I turned around at Sherman Ave and low and behold came across Genesee & Wyoming's RC (Railcare) 759 putting some cars on the Railcare Outbound for CN or CP to lift. For those interested in this fairly unique looking unit's lineage, Steve discusses some of its history in the comments <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=20040" target="_blank">here</a>. Visible in the shot is a Saskatchewan license plate on the unit - someone having a bit of fun, I suppose.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/IMG_5344-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Genesee & Wyom… |
Date: | 03/05/2021 |
Location: | Hamilton |
Province: |
Ontario |
![I was at Canadian Tire to get a flat tire patched, and what more fortunate of timing to have a flat than when an oddball train like W900 is passing by Parkdale Yard (pretty much behind Canadian Tire) while SSRX 911 is about doing its usual thing. The W900 was a test train of sorts of seven grain hoppers from NSC, which ran from Stuart Yard to Clifton and back. This meet came together in the final seconds, with the trains arriving at their respective locations in this shot at near identical times.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/IMG_5243-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 03/03/2021 |
Location: | Hamilton |
Province: |
Ontario |
![This one's for the crew of the 0700 Hamilton Yard Job, a friendly duo who have asked me on more than one occasion where the pictures of them are on this site. I figured it's about damn time I submit one, given the countless hours they have had to put up with me following them around in the north end of Hamilton. I figured if I am going to post any, this one should be it. Nothing quite like a high five to celebrate the successful switch out of Parkland Fuels. It's great to see people who enjoy their jobs and can have a smile every now and then. <br><br>I love incorporating the old Stelco guard shack (now a scale house) into shots here. which you can see back in its prime when the rod mill was still around in <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=38628" target="_blank">this Jason Noe shot</a>.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IMG_4861-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 02/26/2021 |
Location: | Hamilton |
Province: |
Ontario |
![This shot was a lucky sequence of events, to say the least. Two Trillium jobs were running on these day: 340 originally went down to Port Colborne, and 108 was on the Verbio job. 340 was to spot ADM all day, but it turned out its air conditioner made it such that it did not fit. So they trundled back up towards Dain City, and swapped power with the Verbio crew (who then took 340 back to Feeder so modifications could be made and they picked up 1859) and took 108 down to ADM. I ran into the Verbio crew around WH Yard and they let me know that 108 was down at ADM, so off to Port Colborne I went for a stakeout. <br><br>ADM is configured such that three cars can be unloaded at a time, so after an hour and a half or so of painful and sparse scanner chatter such as "5 feet, ok stop 108" they finally emerged to drop the empties in the small yard nearby and grabbed a few more loads to drag back in. Grain is busy down in Port Colborne at the moment - have seen a lot of grain cars head to the area on CN 421 (and interchanged on 562) and CP is supposed to have a few units trains' worth over the course of the winter for Trillium as well.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IMG_4340-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Trillium Railway |
Date: | 02/08/2021 |
Location: | Port Colborne |
Province: |
Ontario |
![The CN 0700 Yard Job heads eastbound on the N&NW Spur with cars for Parkdale Warehousing, Parkland, and Platinum Rail.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IMG_3917-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 01/28/2021 |
Location: | Hamilton |
Province: |
Ontario |
![After dropping cars for CP (cars for Innophos in Port Maitland and Washington Mills in Niagara Falls) and the now infamous JLCX 3502 at CN Southern Yard, CN L562 continues onwards through CN Yager as they head towards the CP Hamilton Sub with 23 tanks in tow for Trillium to be interchanged at Feeder Yard. CN's lift at Feeder had a bunch of cars not for them mixed in with it (per radio conversation overheard), so they ended up only taking two cars back with them on the return trip - the two-bay NS hoppers that Trillium takes to Vesuvius in Welland. They would also work Southern Yard on the return to Port Rob, grabbing a few loaded pipe cars from Welded Tube. <br><br>562 is most often a two-unit train (though in the minority of times it does run as one), with power coming off of the day's 421 (in this case CN 5755 was trailing third on the day's 421) and/or whatever is straggling around in Port Rob (in this case CN 2403).](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IMG_4549-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 02/14/2021 |
Location: | Welland |
Province: |
Ontario |
![CP 7022 on point for 247 as they work Welland Yard on a fortunate day to have no racks on the CASO (track in the foreground).](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IMG_2822-200x150.jpg)
Name: | James Knott |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 11/28/2020 |
Location: | Welland |
Province: |
Ontario |
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