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Facilities Of The Canadian Pacific Railway
Facilities * Toronto Yard in Toronto, Ontario * Vancouver, British Columbia * Alyth Yard in Calgary, Alberta * Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan * Edmonton, Alberta * CPR Buffalo Yard * Chicago, Illinois * St. Paul, Minnesota * Glenwood, Minnesota * Saskatoon, Saskatchewan * Winnipeg, Manitoba * Thunder Bay, Ontario * Montreal, Quebec * Binghamton, New York * Enderlin, North Dakota * Harvey, North Dakota * Elkhart, Indiana * Thief River Falls, Minnesota * Portage, Wisconsin Repair yards * Vancouver, British Columbia * Golden, British Columbia * Calgary, Alberta * Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan * Chicago, Illinois * St. Paul, Minnesota * Montreal, Quebec * Binghamton, New York * CPR Toronto Yard Repair Ships - Toronto, Ontario Grain elevators *Mahnomen (MN) - Cenex Harvest States Coop *Plummer (MN) - Red River Grain *Elbow Lake (MN) - Elbow Lake Coop Grain - Grain Elevator *Kensington (MN) - Farmers Elevator *Parkers Prairie (MN) - Pro-Ag Farmers Coop *Karlstad (MN) - Karlstad Farmers Elevato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CPR Toronto Yard
CPR Toronto Yard is a facility located in northeast Toronto, Ontario, Canada, often incorrectly referred to as Agincourt Yard because it is located in Agincourt, a neighbourhood of Toronto. One of the largest marshalling yards in Canada (432 acres site with of track and 311 switches), the Toronto Yard is used to switch freight cars. The yard is divided up into the following (North to South): A Yard, consisting of ten tracks. B Yard, consisting of ten tracks. C Yard, formerly consisting of 72 classification tracks. D Yard, former railcar repair shop area. Partially taken over by the diesel shop. E Yard, Diesel Shop tracks. F Yard, consisting of ten tracks. G Yard, consisting of five tracks. Prior to being a railyard, the area was home to farms in the area known as Brown's Corners. A large hill, Fisher's Hill, overlooked the area and was leveled to prepare the building of the railyard. Highland Creek flows in the northeast corner. Opened in April 1964, the facility was design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario
Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Canada, it is Canada's most populous province, with 38.3 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec). Ontario is Canada's fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is Ontario's provincial capital. Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east and northeast, and to the south by the U.S. states of (from west to east) Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Almost all of Ontario's border with the United States f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CPR Alyth Yard
CPR Alyth (Calgary) Yard is a Class 1 railway facility in the neighbourhood of Alyth, southeast of downtown Calgary, Alberta. One of Canadian Pacific Railway's main marshalling yards in Canada, it primarily serves as a rail car repair shop and diesel locomotive servicing facilities on site. The yard is CPR's busiest in Western Canada and is home terminal to crews operating north to Red Deer, Alberta, and west to Field, British Columbia, through the Spiral Tunnels Lists of spiral (helicoidal) tunnels and tunnels on a curved alignment on roads and railway lines worldwide. Road tunnels * Churchischleif, road to Isenfluh (Switzerland) * Drammen Spiral, Norway * on SS 659 near Formazza, Italy (full 360° turn .... The hump classification yard facility has been removed and trains are now made up by switching within the yard. Alyth Yard is designed to handle approximately 2200 rail cars at 100% capacity, and is supported by satellite yards in Ogden Park and the Calgary Intermodal F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calgary, Alberta
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Canadian Prairies, Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, making it the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, third-largest city and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, fifth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Calgary is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province, in the transitional area between the Rocky Mountain Foothills and the Canadian Prairies, about east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies, roughly south of the provincial capital of Edmonton and approximately north of the Canada–United States border. The city anchors the south end of the Statistics Canada-defined urban area, the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. Calgary's economy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberta
Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories (NWT) to the north, and the U.S. state of Montana to the south. It is one of the only two landlocked provinces in Canada (Saskatchewan being the other). The eastern part of the province is occupied by the Great Plains, while the western part borders the Rocky Mountains. The province has a predominantly continental climate but experiences quick temperature changes due to air aridity. Seasonal temperature swings are less pronounced in western Alberta due to occasional Chinook winds. Alberta is the fourth largest province by area at , and the fourth most populous, being home to 4,262,635 people. Alberta's capital is Edmonton, while Calgary is its largest city. The two are Alberta's largest census metropolitan areas. More tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CPR Buffalo Yard
CPR Buffalo Yard was a Canadian Pacific Railway facility in Buffalo, New York, United States. It was officially known as "SK yard". The yard was formerly part of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad. In 2004 it closed and was replaced by a joint CPR-Norfolk Southern Railway facility on the east side of Binghamton, New York Binghamton () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, and serves as the county seat of Broome County. Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the conflue .... The CPR facility was used by freight trains. Transportation in Buffalo, New York History of Buffalo, New York 2004 disestablishments in New York (state) Canadian Pacific Railway infrastructure Transportation buildings and structures in Erie County, New York {{BuffaloNY-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenney, MN
Tenney is an unincorporated community and former city in section 28 of Campbell Township, Wilkin County, Minnesota, United States. A post office was established there in 1887, and Tenney was incorporated as a city on November 30, 1901. The population was five at the 2010 census, tying Tenney with Funkley as Minnesota's least populous community. It is part of the Wahpeton, ND–MN Micropolitan Statistical Area. Tenney's main economic feature is a grain elevator near its southern border. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Tenney is located in the flat basin of prehistoric Lake Agassiz, a glacial lake that existed at the end of the last ice age. The area's remarkably flat land is sometimes described as the upper valley of the Red River, though it is not technically in the Red River valley, but is near the Bois de Sioux River. History The city of Tenney was named for the owner of its site, lumberman John P. Tenney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kipling Station
Kipling is the western terminus station of Line 2 Bloor–Danforth of the Toronto subway system. The station is served by buses and subway trains operated by the Toronto Transit Commission and is adjacent to the Kipling GO Station on the Milton line of GO Transit and the Kipling Bus Terminal, where passengers can connect with MiWay and GO Transit bus services. It is located in the Islington–City Centre West neighbourhood on St. Albans Road at Aukland Road, west of the overpass of Kipling Avenue, after which the station is named. The 900 Airport Express bus route connects Kipling to the Toronto Pearson International Airport. History Kipling station, in what was then the Etobicoke, Borough of Etobicoke, officially opened on November 21, 1980—along with Kennedy station, as a pair of one-stop extensions at opposite ends of the Bloor–Danforth line—but was not opened to the public until the following day. Kipling and Kennedy were designed similarly, with both stations having ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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