 The last steam locomotive operated through Hamilton guiding a Baltimore & Ohio freight train in May 1958.A year later, in May 1959, two retired steam locomotives stored at South Hamilton Yard were sent to Cincinnati to be scrapped.Steam excursions have stopped at the station with Nickel Plate 765, in 1984 as a Cincinnati 1984 National Railway Historical Society National Convention excursions, on August 25, 1984 from Cincinnati to Muncie, Indiana, which would take the Cincinnati Terminal Subdivision to Hamilton than take the New Castle District at New River Junction in New Miami, Ohio.