Comments on: US Steel had recently purchased Stelco – but not much has changed at the Hamilton Works on this summer day. Remote Control SW900 Stelco #84 is switching gondolas in the main inbound/outbound yard – all blast furnaces were operating and US Steel was recieving at least two switches per day. Traffic consisted mostly of steel billets for export – however the Steel Train (Joint CN/SOR) also continued to operate. Note the vintage crossbuck. Today the blast furnaces are idle at Hamilton, no steel is being produced, a small Galvanizing line is operating, and the coke ovens continue to turn Coal into Coke for export to other US Steel blast furnace operations. This amounts to approximately a couple tank cars a week are switched into or out of US Steel Hamilton, a pittance compared to the 80 or so loaded cars daily being switched out by CN and CP at the time of this photo.

Comments on: US Steel had recently purchased Stelco – but not much has changed at the Hamilton Works on this summer day. Remote Control SW900 Stelco #84 is switching gondolas in the main inbound/outbound yard – all blast furnaces were operating and US Steel was recieving at least two switches per day. Traffic consisted mostly of steel billets for export – however the Steel Train (Joint CN/SOR) also continued to operate. Note the vintage crossbuck. Today the blast furnaces are idle at Hamilton, no steel is being produced, a small Galvanizing line is operating, and the coke ovens continue to turn Coal into Coke for export to other US Steel blast furnace operations. This amounts to approximately a couple tank cars a week are switched into or out of US Steel Hamilton, a pittance compared to the 80 or so loaded cars daily being switched out by CN and CP at the time of this photo. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Thu, 07 May 2026 18:00:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1