CP Toronto Yard Part 2
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- August 2021
Belt pack switching and pulldown, MOW van and flat cars, Jordan Spreader, heritage SD70ACU, remains of the hump yard, and SOO 4410 on the dead track!
Toronto Yard in Agincourt was built by CP in the early 1960s, open in 1964. It's layout and design was based off a Great Northern yard in North Dakota and upon opening was the most modern and advanced rail marshalling facility in Canada. It allowed the move away from downtown yards, and added capacity over Lambton and West Toronto which already had heavy urban development around them. It was built near the split in the Havelock and Belleville Subdivisions allowing trains to flow in from the major Southern Ontario routes.
It's hump yard, both track and retarders were removed in the mid 2010s as a cost cutting measure. It's rumored a limited new hump facility may be planned for the site in the near future. These types of yards were closed at CN years before under the same management group, but have since been mostly reopened. At CP they were closed and the equipment removed to prevent this, including at CP's Alyth Yard in Calgary.
Toronto Yard is the point of origin and terminus for freight trains to and from Havelock.
The Havelock cars of Nepheline Syenite and roofing granules are shipped all over North America from here and loads of grains and fertilizer for the Peterboro area arrive via Toronto yard from across the network.
Along the route of the proposed VIA Rail VIA HFR project
I was a kid back in the mid 1970s and used to go to this yard all the time..it breaks my heart to see how much of it is gone
Very nice
Excellent video... super congratulations
Great video HY !! I saw the spreader in there. This is a piece of equipment that I would love to see in action some day. It is sad that CP gutted this yard by removing the hump operation some years ago. I suppose it just did not make sense operationally at that time. None the less it left an ugly scar in the middle of the yard. James.
I've watched them plow snow with one here 10 years ago before they went exclusively to Snowfighters on this line. They were ditching with one and CMQ barn units on the Belleville a month ago. Some videos out there from around Perth/Glen Tay,
awesome! whats the street name for the over pass at 0:48?
Finch Avenue
@@HavelockYard thanks!
Torman Industries had a Rail Freight Terminal at the east end of the yard over at Markham Rd. I use to deliver Rail Freight there back in the day. Is it still there or did CP sell it off?
I don't see it there. Don't know what happened
Sold, demolished and built over about 15 years ago.
@@brentfoster9138 Thanks...mystery solved
Im sure CP has enough $ money that they could restore that caboose.