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Be careful when venturing here. You don’t want to run into the wrong people.
There are hobo camps all by the tracks in this area, and it’s not getting better.
Yeah it seemed like a pretty sketchy area when I was with Alex. I definitely would not go here alone or at night.
It gets worse. Don’t trundle in that part of Hamilton – including a few miles in both directions near the tracks (cn or cp) alone. Just don’t.
If your on a public roadway… or park.. fine. But not by the tracks. You’ll run into the hobo camps.
Nice capture on the old Beltline district. But
that seems like a very light and ancient bridge to be the Grimsby Sub – are you sure it isn’t the old N&NW ??
Thanks! It is the Grimsby Sub. There used to be several tracks passing over here but they removed a couple on this side of the bridge.
That entire bridge structure looks in terrible condition! The abutment is cracked! How can the track engineers continue to pass it off as safe? If that was a highway bridge it would be immediately be closed.
Good eye Mike! Wow.
So, upon further thought, what you’re staring is not the abutments for a railroad bridge, it’s in fact the abutments for a former pedestrian overpass. To the left was a Dofasco parking lot, the covered walkway brought employees over the tracks and there is a tunnel under the grimsby sub to get people to Dofasco on the other side.
The structure was removed in 2016. You can see it in my visit here in 2015:
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=18597
It was cracked even then!
Lance Brown 3 years ago shared with me his amazing wisdom on area history, and he noted the bridge was built in 1900 by the GTR at a cost of $12,764.88 and was later expanded for service tracks including a flare out on the south side to accommodate a switch to Reid Press (now the parking lot for Dofasco). THe north side of the bridge is stone, and the south side is concrete owing to the expansions over the years.
Can see the stone/concrete in this shot I took in 2011:
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=30661
As usual you guys have all the right answers. You should be on “Jeopardy- railroad category”