Premier freight power
Having stopped their train for an official photo, the head-end crew crowds the right side of the cab to watch the photographer do his work. Berkshires 201 and 202 were Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo’s top freight power.
Hamilton switching job
Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo SW9 No. 58 rumbles through downtown Hamilton, en route from TH&B’s yard to the heavily industrialized areas that ring the east side of the city on May 24, 1979.
Phosphate for Port Maitland
Three Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Geeps and two switchers hoist 60 cars of crushed phosphate rock east from Hamilton in February 1983. The train is bound for a fertilizer plant at Port Maitland on Lake Erie.
0-6-0 on a yard drag
Six-wheel switcher No. 43 works a yard drag near Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo’s station in Hamilton in an undated photo.
Borrowed by a parent
Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo GP7 76 and GP9 402 lead Canadian Pacific’s Cobourg Turn east from Toronto on April 28, 1976. As one of TH&B’s parents, CP would sometimes borrow the smaller road’s power.
Berkshire in command
Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo 2-8-4 No. 201 is in command of a freight at an unknown location in the 1940s.