 The HG&B derived a large amount of revenue by hauling fruit grown in the northern section of the Niagara Peninsula.It built a car shop in Grimsby and a coal-fired steam-electric D.C. generator at Stoney Creek.In 1904 the HG&B began using A.C. power from Hamilton Cataract's hydro-electric generator at Decew Falls, two miles south of St. Catharines, It then converted its Stoney Creek D.C. station to an A.C. substation.