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It is located at milepoint 9.7 on the CN Halton Subdivision. [2] The yard services CN's own intermodal units, as well perform local switcher or transfer cars to other trains. The yard is also connected with MacMillan Yard. [3] Located next to Malport is the Jet Fuel Rail Offloading, Storage and Distribution Facility.
Orangeville Brampton Railway: Orangeville To Brampton, Ontario 2000-2021 Okanagan Valley Railway: Okanagan Valley, British Columbia: 1998 - 2009: Shut down due to lack of business. Ontario and Quebec Railway: Acquired by CPR. Ontario and Rainy River Railway: Rainy River, Ontario: 1886 – 1900: Acquired by CNoR. Ontario L'Orignal Railway ...
[2] On September 19 2018, CN declared that the section running south of Washago to Longford Mills would be discontinued as part of their 3-year-plan. [3] On September 21 2019, the Canadian Railway Preservation and Restoration Association (CRPRA) expressed their interest in that section of the Newmarket Sub to operate a local tourism train.
The east–west-aligned middle section of the Halton Subdivision was built in the 1850s by the Grand Trunk Railway.Initially a line to the villages of Weston and Georgetown west of Toronto, it was extended through Guelph and Kitchener (then known as Berlin) by 1856, [5] then further extended westward to Sarnia via St. Marys Junction.
In 1976, CN created an entity called Via-CN as a separate operating unit for its passenger services. Via evolved into a coordinated marketing effort with CP Rail for rail passenger services, and later into a separate Crown corporation responsible for inter-city passenger services in Canada. Via Rail took over CN's passenger services on April 1 ...
MONTREAL/WINNIPEG (Reuters) - Thousands of workers at Canada's largest railway went on strike for the first time in a decade on Tuesday, disrupting the shipping of commodities and sparking calls ...
The Brampton Railway was a mineral railway built in 1798 to bring coal from workings on Tindale Fell to staiths at Brampton. It was a development of short sections of earlier wooden railways. When the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway was opened in 1836, the Brampton Railway was diverted to make a junction with that line. The section from the ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada's freight rail network could come to a grinding halt this week, inflicting a huge economic toll after the country's two largest railroad operators on Sunday issued lockout ...