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It really is a shame that the Chatham Street roundhouse no longer exists.  As you can see from this image, the oversized windows gave it a certain “Cathedral” feeling.  


It is a small miracle that this photograph turned out.  I was shooting with a fully manual 35mm Pentax K-1000 camera.  The significant backlighting created a real challenge.  I’ll take credit for being lucky this time around, I wasn’t normally that good!


One of the things I like most in this shot are those two little hand-crafted wooden stepstools sitting on / near the scaffolding in front of #54!  I’m betting the stepstools perished along with everything else.


This was my one and only time to tour the facility.  Charlie Hampton from the ORA was my guide that day.  Anyone know of Charlie’s whereabouts??  Please tell him I said hello and thanks!


Film: Kodak Tri-X 400.  Digital negative scanning services:  Digmypics.com in Arizona.
Copyright Notice: This image ©Peter Newman all rights reserved.



Caption: It really is a shame that the Chatham Street roundhouse no longer exists. As you can see from this image, the oversized windows gave it a certain “Cathedral” feeling.

It is a small miracle that this photograph turned out. I was shooting with a fully manual 35mm Pentax K-1000 camera. The significant backlighting created a real challenge. I’ll take credit for being lucky this time around, I wasn’t normally that good!

One of the things I like most in this shot are those two little hand-crafted wooden stepstools sitting on / near the scaffolding in front of #54! I’m betting the stepstools perished along with everything else.

This was my one and only time to tour the facility. Charlie Hampton from the ORA was my guide that day. Anyone know of Charlie’s whereabouts?? Please tell him I said hello and thanks!

Film: Kodak Tri-X 400. Digital negative scanning services: Digmypics.com in Arizona.

Photographer:
Peter Newman [86] (more) (contact)
Date: 1977 (search)
Railway: Toronto Hamilton and Buffalo (search)
Reporting Marks: TH&B 54, TH&B 77 (search)
Train Symbol: Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS: Chatham Street Roundhouse (search)
City/Town: Hamilton (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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4 Comments
  1. Peter: You had more than luck. Those K-1000s were not only one of the best cameras out there, they were very very popular. I went thru 4 of them. Had I not been so damn clumsy over the years, I might have made good with just the one.

  2. This is excellent, thank you Peter for sharing. I wish I could have seen this facility, while I may have seen it as a kid I surely don’t remember it ;)

  3. You’re right, Arnold, it was a great camera. That said, the little built-in light meter still required a lot of interpretation in unusual lighting situations. In fact, I only took two photos inside the roundhouse (I previously posted the other image). I was hedging my bets that day and figured I’d have better luck outside. Film costs and processing fees were a big deal when I was sixteen!

    In retrospect, I haven’t seen many photographs taken inside this building. I wish I had taken more. The structure is pretty fascinating.

  4. My privilege and pleasure, Stephen!

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