Comments on: Engine maintenance facilities, always an opportunity ! Especially old facilities. On dreary winter days. Several TH&B units present including the GP- 7 #72 ( the future CP Rail #1682, retired 2011) coupled to GP- 9 #401 (the future CP Rail #1688, retired 2013 (!)) ; and right centre an unknown TH&B geep with an unknown GMD built CP Rail unit in the back ground. No specific date for this black & white negative, a guess would be circa 1976 or 1977. I believe all the structures ( coal towers, fuel storage, and in the background the roundhouse ) shown here are history. B & W negative, at Hamilton, by S.Danko. Interesting: Just envision – at one time – that the TH&B Aberdeen Yard was a prime candidate for an operational steam and rail museum given the facilities: concrete (solid fuel) coaling towers, (liquid) fuel storage, turntable, brick roundhouse – Chatham Street ( demolished 1991) , mechanical shop(s), rail yard for storage, a wye and most importantly a lightly used branch line (Waterford Subdivision) with a westward grade to Summit, as well as access to a mainline with a heavy grade eastward up the escarpment. [ imagine a modern heavy Pacific (or Northern (!)) tackling the Welland Subdivision eastward to Smithville ( then onto Dunnville branch ( the Erie & Ontario Railway))] ! More TH&B: westward extra east Shwa Turn great shot ! sdfourty.

By: Stephen C. Host

Stephen C. Host — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:49:34 +0000

It does to me Arnold. Wasn’t even born yet ;0

awmooney — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:08:13 +0000

Sure doesn’t seem like almost, gasp, 40 years ago, does it??
Nice nostalgic view for us who remember.