Ore trains stopped in Ironville to drop their loads into the separator to be crushed and washed. Some of the dressed ore traveled only a few hundred yards to the forge below the dam to be turned into bloom iron. The rest traveled down to the new furnaces on the Lake shore to be smelted into pig iron for export to Troy and Pittsburgh. People also rode the train, traveling from Hammondville and Ironville through the earliest hamlet of Buck Hollow, past Bradford Corners, and finally to the hotel at Hammond's Corners, now the commercial center of Crown Point. Water towers stored the much needed water used to generate steam for the train engines.