Comments on: The CN 0700 Yard Job has just dropped some coil cars and a boxcar at Railcare, and is pictured here on the south side of Burlington Street shoving back out towards the N&NW Spur. The signals pictured protect the diamond known as Irondale. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Sun, 10 May 2026 01:02:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: jknott86 http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=42404#comment-41630 jknott86 Thu, 13 Aug 2020 13:13:24 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IMG_0601.jpg#comment-41630 Oh interesting - I didn't realize that. Thanks Steve, I'll check out that article. Oh interesting – I didn’t realize that. Thanks Steve, I’ll check out that article.

]]> By: Stephen C. Host http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=42404#comment-41628 Stephen C. Host Thu, 13 Aug 2020 13:01:20 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IMG_0601.jpg#comment-41628 This was the location of an interchange between CN/TH&B and HRER. "Following the abandonment of the Hamilton Radial Electric Railway on January 5, 1929, the HSR continued to operate that railway's carload freight switching service, picking up cars at Irondale interchange from the CNR and the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway (TH&B) and delivering them to the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. on the Radial Railway's east-end steam plant spur" Article by the Late Great Andrew Merrilees https://tinyurl.com/y5wtax4w This was the location of an interchange between CN/TH&B and HRER.

“Following the abandonment of the Hamilton Radial Electric Railway on January 5, 1929, the HSR
continued to operate that railway’s carload freight switching service, picking up cars at Irondale
interchange from the CNR and the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway (TH&B) and delivering them
to the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. on the Radial Railway’s east-end steam plant spur”

Article by the Late Great Andrew Merrilees

https://tinyurl.com/y5wtax4w

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