Steel Company of Canada

Originally: (1910) Hamilton Steel & Iron Co.

Hamilton Steel & Iron 3 0-6-0T 36 tons 15,700 t.e. Cyl. 14x22 drv. 42" press. 180 lbs.
CLC # 627 6/1904 Don Mc.Queen Collection

Sold 1953 to CIL Hamilton. Scrapped 1956.

HS&I 6 #877 6/1909 Bigger and stronger. Cyl. 17x24 drv. 50" press. 180 lbs.
Light weight 45 tons, working order 54 tons. t.e. 21% coal 1.5 tons water 850 gals.
CLC-Henderson/Don McQueen collection.

Same engine as above in later years. Note water tank extended over smokebox.
Bay City Railway Historical Foundation

4-6-0 10 with crew posing; Jim McKeag, Harry Duncan, Ernie Warburton and unknown man.

4-6-0, Cyl 18" x 24" Drv. 51"
Pittsburgh 701, November 1883,
New for Pittsburgh McKeesport & Youghiogheny 163, Re#d 257 in 1900,
To NYC 9196, in 1907
To Willard Kitchen #1, April 1909
To MP&JT Davis #4, unknown date
To Bathurst Power & Paper 5, unknown date
To Stelco 10, October 1918
Scrapped June 1945

10 ex Quebec Southern nee Pittsburgh, McKeesport & Youghiogheny 163
Pittsburgh 701 November 1883 Both photos collection of Doug Cummings

14 acq. 6/1937 (ex CNR 7030 nee CNoR 333) MLW #50228 1911 BCRHF

14 after wreck when hit by 51 in 1951 and scrapped. BCRHF

17 0-6-0 at the Hi-dock. Acq. 9/1941 (ex ACL 931 4-6-0) BLW #29776 1911 BCRHF

20 at the roundhouse. Acq. 4/1947 (ex USA4062) 40,000 t.e. Lima #8396 2/1943 BCRHF

Identical Army 0-6-0's included PCT 4076 (Lima #8410 1/1944) which wound up at Heritage Park in Calgary painted as
CPR 6269, later 2024, where it remains in operation with sister engine 2023 ex PCT 4012 (Alco #70388 9/1942).

 

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