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CPKC Alyth Yard
CPKC Alyth (Calgary) Yard is a Class 1 railway facility in the neighbourhood of Alyth, Calgary, Alyth, southeast of downtown Calgary, Alberta. One of Canadian Pacific Kansas City's main classification yard, marshalling yards in Canada, it primarily serves as a rail car repair shop and diesel locomotive servicing facilities on site. The yard is CPKC'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 Big Hill, Spiral Tunnels. The Hump yard, 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 Facility at Shepard. See also *Facilities of the Canadian Pacific Railway References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calgary By Sentinel-2 (CPR Alyth Yard)
Calgary () is a major city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Alberta. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a Metropolitan area, 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 at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the southwest 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 includes activity in many sectors: energy; financial services; film and tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
