Comments on: American Iron & Metal has upgraded from their Shuttlewagon to this, a TP90 built by Tractive Power Corporation. The upgrade in horsepower has been necessitated to accommodate more loaded cars for AIM’s recently completed shredder. The number, 1936, is the year that AIM entered business. Its founder’s name, Peter Black, is inscribed on the side of the unit as well. In fact, the business is still in the Black family some 84 years later. On the note of the new shredder, the uptick of traffic at AIM is quite noticeable, with a considerable amount of cars moving in and out on both CN and CP. NSC has also built a large number of new cars for AIM, as seen in this shot. Things are pretty busy up there – this shot took me about all of 1 minute of waiting to get after I showed up there after work on Tuesday.

By: mberry

mberry — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 22:32:25 +0000

Seen these cars in Montreal quite a bit recently.

By: BradKetchen

BradKetchen — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 18:01:22 +0000

I agree @rsmith about Ingenia!

By: Stuart Streit

Stuart Streit — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:23:04 +0000

Frame/trucks from an ex CN/CP SW1200RS? Fascinating Canadian enterprise; http://www.tractivepowercorp.com

By: jknott86

jknott86 — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 15:52:45 +0000

Thank you. This would be shot from Parkdale Ave

By: cnnutbar

cnnutbar — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 15:36:46 +0000

Great catch James—always interesting to see your photos taken at uncommon locations around Hamilton—I’m trying to figure where you took this shot ?

By: jknott86

jknott86 — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:28:31 +0000

Thanks for the comments, guys. I am with you re the aesthetics, I wasn’t very enthused when I saw the shots of it a couple of months back on whatever eastbound it came out of Sarnia on. That said, seeing it shoving a string of AIM gons yesterday kind of changed my tune a bit.

By: rsmith

rsmith — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:08:41 +0000

Nice catch. I agree with Steve. Still worth a shot. Now if only Ingenia in Brantford would get a trackmobile-upgrade…

By: Jacob Patterson

Jacob Patterson — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 19:19:12 +0000

Interesting. Most TP90’s I’ve seen with a single 3 axle truck. Neat to see with a pair of flexicoils.

By: Stephen C. Host

Stephen C. Host — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 18:19:05 +0000

Wierd looking thing. Beats a trackmobile tho