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Some of us have to suffer taking photos of GMD-1′s frequently. Sigh.
Haha! They’ve been pretty consistently in Hamilton for the last year. And they’re sitting ducks on the yard jobs.. I refuse to shoot them in the yard though- too easy/boring. At least the industrial area offers some interesting settings.
I shot them in the yard :/ Simply because I didn’t have time, but it was sunny so I did what I had to do. Anyway, can’t get enough shots of the GMD1s. They won’t last forever.
You should try taking some crappy pictures for a change and see what it’s like.
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Sigh….another gem.
Haha thanks Arnold. Plenty of duds in my early uploads to this site!
There are talks to put that switch back into service for AirLiquide.
Pretty sure the caption says exactly that.
Thanks for reinforcing what I’d heard elsewhere though
woops! I better read the caption a 5th time
I better redeem myself…Dofasco was also in talks to having service down by the Kenilworth yard. Plan was to ship product out west. There, even Steven
LOL – redeemed. That would be nice to see, been almost 10 years since Dofasco used rail over there. Would be neat if they used their switchers to switch the place as they did until 2012! (with running rights from Bayfront to Central Shipping)
It’s interesting how many customers have come back to rail – Triple Metal is taking a crap ton of cars at Strathearne, at the former “Metal and Thermite Corporation” facility (owned by American Can, built in 1961) after years of their switch being dormant.
Parkdale Warehouse also wants a 4th switch a week with 3 in and 3 out, but they can’t comit to that if they can’t get their 4th switch. Mana is busy now, and also heard there was talks to have rail business on those tracks that go all the way in the back of Stelco.
That would indeed be great to see. Thanks for the updates. Always fun to hear about what might happen.
Which Stelco tracks? West side of what’s now MANA or down on the east side? Referring to the diagram linked below:
https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news-story/9640711-stelco-moving-ahead-with-bayfront-land-redevelopment-plans/
There’s a former Stelco building on the far east side of the Stelco property being rebuilt by Eastern Construction for the last 2 years, (1133 Industrial Drive) it’s completely severed from the rail network though. This is called the “ponderosa lands. Then MANA has a potential site even deeper (and fenced off, can’t get to it yet). Both were sold off for re-development by Stelco. The Port seems interested in a lot of this too but i’m not actually sure if they have their hands in any of it yet.
And yes thank you for the neat tips.
It’s the lead at Stelco that goes way past the spot and pull tracks. The three tracks that are used to spot and pull the Stelco cars, further down it turns into one track and wraps around to the left of Stelco and end behind MANA. MANA was thinking of using that track to offload or load freight cars from the ships. The track was inspected last fall by Allied.
That lead goes all the way to the docks or #4 on the diagram in the link.