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In 1991, Vollrath acquired the Bloomfield Industries division of Specialty Equipment Companies Inc. [23] On December 15, 1992 Vollrath reached the landmark position of $100 million in annual sales. In May 1994 Vollrath acquired a line of food warmers and accessories with the purchase of Idea/Medalie Division, Rogers, Minnesota. Production of ...
Illustrating the heritage value of this fleet, one of its cars is already on display at Canadian Railway Museum in Saint-Constant, Quebec. [5] Via Rail also continues to operate RDCs on the Sudbury-White River train in Ontario. The Tshiuetin Railway in Labrador operates a vintage fleet of passenger cars in regular service.
Procor is a Canadian company producing railway shipping cars. It is Canada's largest private rail car rental fleet, with more than 30,000 conventional and special-purpose tank and freight cars. Linked to Sparling Tank Car of Toronto, [1] Procor was founded in 1952 as Products Tank Line Limited and became an affiliate of US-based Union Tank Car ...
Budd built cars. 6109 acquired by CN Rail from Chicago & Eastern Illinois and sold to Ferrocarriles de Cuba in 1998. 6127 acquired from CP Rail and sold to Dallas Area Rapid Transit in 1993. 6120 was ex-CNR D352/6703 and sold to Cuba in 1998 RDC-2 1956–1958 1978–present 2 6212, 6208, 6215, 6217, 6219 Built by Canadian Car & Foundry. All ex ...
Algoma Central Railway telephone car, Algoma District, Ontario, [ca. 1925] The Algoma Central Railway was first owned by Francis H. Clergue, who required a railway to haul resources from the interior of the Algoma District to Clergue's industries in Sault Ste. Marie; specifically, to transport logs to his pulp mill and iron ore from the Helen Mine, near Wawa, to a proposed steel mill (which ...
The fleet of colonist cars at Canadian Pacific grew to include over a thousand cars, providing spartan sleeping accommodation to immigrants to Western Canada. [4] These cars provided simple pull-down sleeping berths and kitchens where immigrant families could cook their own meals. Fares were very cheap.
There are also over 250,000 objects and documents from Canada's railway history in the collection which is maintained in the archives on the property. The museum operates a heritage streetcar line around the grounds as well as a heritage railway which pulls a small passenger train on a former freight spur to Montée des Bouleaux. The streetcar ...
3-wheeled handcar or velocipede on a railroad track Preserved railroad velocipede on exhibit at the Toronto Railway Historical Association. A handcar (also known as a pump trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, [1] velocipede, or draisine) is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people pushing the car from behind.