Canadian National Railway facilities in Peel Region consists of two specialized facilities, which are both accessed using the

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Brampton Intermodal Terminal

Located at 76 Intermodal Drive, it is a major Intermodal terminal located between Airport Road and Goreway Drive in

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and bound to the north by Queen Street and Intermodal Drive to the south. The terminal is connected to

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to redirect intermodal freight cars. The terminal is located next to

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's Distribution Centre with the company being a major intermodal client.

Malport Freight Yard

Malport Yard is a smaller yard located in

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south of

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between Airport Road and Torbram Road. It is located at milepoint 9.7 on the

. 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. Located next to Malport is the Jet Fuel Rail Offloading, Storage and Distribution Facility. It was built at a cost of $59-65 million and opened on 21 July 2009. It is used to supply the

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with

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. The opening of the terminal coincided with a significant increase in the import of aviation fuel to Canada, with the rate of aviation fuel importation increasing from in the early 2000s to by 2008; this has been linked to refinery closures as well as the decision by some refiners to switch production away from aviation fuel to

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or other, higher-demand distillates. , CN transports the fuel to the facility from the

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, as well as from a CN

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terminal in

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. Before the facility's construction, fuel was trucked to the airport from CN's MacMillan Yard rather than being brought directly by rail. , the facility is owned by the Pearson International Fuel Facilities Corporation, which leases it out to the Toronto Fuel Committee (owned by a consortium of airlines), and is managed by FSM Management Group Inc. of

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. In 2016, CN and Emergency Response Assistance Canada (ERAC) conducted a full-scale emergency response exercise at Malport Yard around the handling of dangerous petroleum products in a rail yard setting.

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Brampton Intermodal Terminal

Malport Freight Yard

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