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As of 2015, the railway has a maintenance team of about 20 people, working 365 days a year. The railway handles about 60 to 80 trains per week over the 100 km of track, with 168 switch points to be maintained. The port entrance off Boucherville Street sees about 2500 trucks daily that enter or exit the facility. [2]
Montreal Locomotive Works FA-1 Canadian National 9400 The 9400 was transferred to the Exporail site in 1989 and restored in 2000. C.E. Brooks Rail Motor Car Canadian National 15824 Retired in 1964 Montreal Locomotive Works RS-18 MR-18c Canadian National 3684 Acquired in 1992 Montreal Locomotive Works C-424 DRS-24c CP Rail 4237 Retired in 1998
The Port of Montreal decided to de-electrify its railway system in 1940, and so in 1941 the fleet of locomotives were traded with Canadian National Railway for seven steam switcher locomotives. [1] They were given the classification Class Z-4-a by CN and renumbered. They would subsequently be renumbered in 1949 and finally 1969. [2]
The first all-Canadian transcontinental train left Dalhousie Station bound for Port Moody, British Columbia, on June 28, 1886, at 8:00 p.m. [4] Only five years after opening Dalhousie Station, Canadian Pacific opened a second Montreal terminal, Windsor Station, in February 1889. It had better access to rail routes to the United States, southern ...
Montreal Video Game Museum Montreal Montreal Technology history of video games with a focus on the Canadian contribution Musée Eudore-Dubeau: Côte-des-Neiges: Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce: Medical: part of the University of Montreal, open by appointment, history of dentistry and its teaching in Quebec Museum of Fashion: Old ...
This list of museums in Quebec, Canada contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Windsor Station is a former railway station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It used to be the city's Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) station, and served as the headquarters of CPR from 1889 to 1996. It is bordered by Avenue des Canadiens-de-Montréal to the north, Peel Street to the east, Saint Antoine Street to the south and the Bell Centre to the ...
In 1910 a direct Toronto–Montreal line was built. In 1911, federal funding enabled construction of the line Montreal – Ottawa – Capreol – Port Arthur. In 1912, with GTR and CPR holding the ideal southern routes around Mount Royal to downtown Montreal, CNoR started building a double-tracked mainline north by excavating the Mount Royal ...