Symington Yard is the largest rail classification yard of the

Canadian National Railway The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I railroad, Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern United States, M ...

, and one of the largest

rail yard A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock or ...

s in the world. The intermodal facility is located next to the Windsor Park area of

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. Built in 1962 to replace Transcona and Fort Rouge, and named for former CNR Director

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(1881–1965), it can store 7,000 cars and handles 3,000 cars per day.

Yard incidents

* December 15, 1983 — two sets of locomotives collide in the Yard killing a CP engineer * February 2, 1990 — eleven cars jackknifed and derailed at the bottom of the hump

References

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Yard incidents

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