Cando Rail & Terminals Ltd. (Commonly referred to simply as Cando, reporting mark CCGX) is a

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contractor headquartered in

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, founded in 1978 by Gord Peters and Rick Hammond. Cando offers several services, including industrial switching, material handling, logistics, terminal and transload services, engineering and track services, railcar storage, railcar repair and short line operations. The short line operations include the

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and Barrie Collingwood Railway. In 2017, Deloitte Canada named Cando as one of "Canada's Best Managed Companies" for 2016.

History

Gord Peters and Rick Hammond founded Cando Contracting Ltd. in 1978, as a small rail line dismantling and salvage company in

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. They would remove pieces of track and sell the materials. Gord's father Art and brother Doug were also a big part of the company's success in the early years. Cando's first contract was for two abandoned rail lines near Tilston, Manitoba for

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, who at the time was abandoning smaller subdivisions in order to focus on east–west traffic across Canada. Gord and Rick bid on the jobs while having no equipment or experience. When, to their surprise, they got both jobs, Gord drove home with a loan from his father, and started Cando Contracting Ltd. In 1996, the company established an Employee Ownership Program, and in 2017 Cando said that over 80% of the company is owned by present and retired employees. In 1999, Cando bought the Carman and Pine Falls Subdivisions, two recently abandoned

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branch lines, from

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, and started the Central Manitoba Railway. In 2013, Cando changed its name from Cando Contracting Ltd. to Cando Rail Services Ltd., and changed its logo. Cando also changed the livery for locomotives that it owned. In April 2021, the company changed their name again, to Cando Rail & Terminals Ltd.

Locations

While Cando first started in

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, and is headquartered in

, they now exist at over 25 sites across

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, and parts of the

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. In January 2016, Cando announced that it purchased the former Weyerhaeuser sawmill property on Mission Flats Road in Kamloops with the intention to turn it into 1000 spots of railcar storage, 80,000 feet of track and engineering and mechanical servicing areas. Cando opened phase one of the rail terminal in May 2017. The terminal also serves as their B.C. headquarters.

Gallery

File:CCGX 4000, CCGX 4208 at St. James Jct.jpg, CCGX 4000 and CCGX 4208 at St. James Jct. Image:Cando4206andCEMR4002.png, CCGX 4206 and CEMR 4002, bring a freight train into

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Image:CandoCaboose.png, CCGX 200001 on a

Family Day Train on September 9, 2017

References

External links

1978 establishments in Manitoba Rail transport in Canada {{DEFAULTSORT:Cando Rail and Terminals