Hamilton's industrial skyline has been undergoing change. There is more to come in the not-too-distant future, but a part of it was demolished this morning.
I heard the boom, had thoughts of some disastrous explosion befalling the city, like a rail tanker car exploding in a yard about a km west of our house, but this must have been what my ears recorded.
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Last Stelco blast furnace demolished on Hamilton bayfront
The towering structure was felled by a controlled explosion just after 9 a.m.
By Matthew Van Dongen
The Hamilton Spectator
Wed., Aug. 17, 2022
https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...-bayfront.html
Goodbye Big “E” — it was a blast.
The last Stelco blast furnace in Hamilton was demolished Wednesday using a controlled explosion that cut out the supports under the towering steelmaking relic that dominated the western bayfront skyline for more than half a century.
A massive boom that echoed around the harbour was followed by a slow collapse of the roughly 200-foot-tall “E” blast furnace built in 1968 on Pier 16.
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I included still photos from the news story
in this post in the Hamilton sub.