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Signs of the TH&B are abound in Hamilton as a Kinnear to Aberdeen yard transfer rolls by the elevated right of way in the southern part of town near the Hunter St. Station area. This transfer had a crap ton of steel for the Steel Centre on it and surely that solo GP9 was working hard. I enjoy photographing around here but without a drone or major elevation it is a challenging place for photography of trains. I've pulled off a few shots over the years.
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Caption: Signs of the TH&B are abound in Hamilton as a Kinnear to Aberdeen yard transfer rolls by the elevated right of way in the southern part of town near the Hunter St. Station area. This transfer had a crap ton of steel for the Steel Centre on it and surely that solo GP9 was working hard. I enjoy photographing around here but without a drone or major elevation it is a challenging place for photography of trains. I've pulled off a few shots over the years.

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Stephen C. Host [1597] (more) (contact)
Date: 10/21/2007 (search)
Railway: Canadian Pacific (search)
Reporting Marks: CP 1614 (search)
Train Symbol: Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS: Hamilton (search)
City/Town: Hamilton (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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10 Comments
  1. DoctaPinklaces
    June 15, 2026 at 12:07 pm

    This is why I can’t stand to shoot CPKC. What a downgrade.

  2. Stephen C. Host
    June 15, 2026 at 3:10 pm

    I just wish we had more former TH&B GP7 units around here back then. There seemed to be only the one in London – which I did get but by this time (2008) it was basically dead (block froze)

    were there any others in Ontario in the 2000′s ?

  3. Eric May
    June 15, 2026 at 8:47 pm

    Nice bridge. Same Art Deco style as the downtown station.

  4. jknott86
    June 16, 2026 at 6:18 pm

    Those Augusta Lofts never did come to fruition.

  5. Kevin Flood
    June 16, 2026 at 10:54 pm

    Neat stuff. The TH&B bridge by Aberdeen is another cool spot.

  6. MrDan
    June 17, 2026 at 6:59 am

    Stefan, the 1684 was a local Toronto (Agincourt) Yard resident for many years, but being a slug mother, Toronto kept it on a tight leash.

    Early 2010′s motive power assignment notes show:
    1682 – London
    1683 – Winnipeg
    1684 – Toronto
    1685 – Coquitlam
    1686 – Moose Jaw
    1687 – Binghamton NY
    1688 – St. Luc
    1689 – ? (Calgary or out west?)
    1690 – St. Luc

    1682 was retired 9/30/11 and “rebuilt on paper” as GP20C-ECO 2212 (in reality, allocated/traded in for).

  7. Stephen C. Host
    June 17, 2026 at 9:41 am

    jknott, yeah… from “99,990″ – even at that price investors wouldn’t buy down there at that time. typical of hamilton, so many projects just fail to get off the ground.

    Kevin there are about 5 bridges that have TH&B lettering around hamilton. One says “TH&B / CN” :) Guess why…

    Thanks Dano – I believe the GP20C-eco’s did have frames re-used, but I don’t know enough about what was re-used and what wasn’t – I believe they were frame up rebuilds at the least and did use the units as donor cores

    Unlike some other rebuilding programs, such as the recent NBSR program which used anything on hand at Progress as cores, not the traded in units… but the difference there is 13 years of time..

  8. MrDan
    June 17, 2026 at 7:08 pm

    They were built new on new frames Steve, only some accessories (trucks, compressors, etc) from the GP9u’s were refurbished and reused (apparently that was enough for them to qualify as “rebuilds” on paper). The GP9u’s that were traded in got cut up, including the frames.

    https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/Canadian_Pacific_Railway_2200-2229

  9. Stephen C. Host
    June 19, 2026 at 8:16 am

    Thanks Dano.

  10. Stephen C. Host
    June 21, 2026 at 6:12 pm

    Photo notes: 50mm 1.8
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