CPR Toronto Yard

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CPR Toronto Yard
View to the southwest of the marshalling yard in 2010
(above location in the CPR network, Greater Toronto Area )
Data
Operating point type Marshalling yard
Design Through station
opening 1964
location
Place / district Toronto
province Ontario
Country Canada
Coordinates 43 ° 48 '14 "  N , 79 ° 14' 58"  W Coordinates: 43 ° 48 '14 "  N , 79 ° 14' 58"  W.
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The CPR Toronto Yard , also Agincourt Yard , is a former marshalling yard of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in the district of Scarborough in northeast Toronto . It was the largest marshalling yard in the CPR network with 72 directional tracks until the 2010s  , but was partially shut down together with other marshalling yards of the Canadian Class 1 railway company in the course of restructuring under E. Hunter Harrison . A large part of the tracks were then dismantled, only the adjacent depot and the former entry and exit groups have been preserved.

history

Large Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific (CPR) marshalling yards in the greater Toronto area : Mimico Yard (formerly CN, below) MacMillan Yard (CN, above left) West Toronto Yard (CPR, center) Lambton Yard (CPR , Center) CPR Toronto Yard (CPR, top right)
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The connections of the CPR and the later Canadian National Railway (CN) from Detroit to Montreal ran in the 19th century via Toronto, which is about halfway. From the end of the century, the West Toronto Yard (1890, CPR) and the Mimico Yard (1906, Grand Trunk Railway , later CN) were the first large marshalling yards with roundhouse sheds for servicing steam locomotives along the lines in what is now Toronto's city center . The CPR expanded its capacity in the 1910s with the construction of Lambton Yard , which from then on operated as one large marshalling yard together with the neighboring West Toronto Yard . The steady increase in freight traffic during the Second World War in the 1940s and the limited space available in the metropolis, which was also growing, forced the two large railway companies to think about alternatives, which began in the early 1960s with the construction of new marshalling yards on the edge of the Greater Toronto Area flowed. The CPR chose the northeastern Agincourt in what is now Scarborough as its location and built a flat station with 63 directional tracks  on around 175 hectares by 1964  , the number of which was increased to 72 in the 1990s. The Lambton-West Toronto Yard remained in operation after the opening of the CPR Toronto Yard and is now used by the CPR to supply the local industry, although the large ring lock sheds were demolished.

At the same time, in Vaughan to the north, the CN built a flat station of a similar size with today's MacMillan Yard on an area of ​​160 hectares , which, in contrast to the through station of the CPR, was designed as a terminal station . The site of the former train station in Mimico is now mainly used by GO Transit (Willowbrook Yard) and VIA Rail Canada (VIA Toronto Maintenance Center) . In the 1990s, the majority of all CN and CPR marshalling yards in Canada were equipped with a system developed by the CN for radio remote control of shunting locomotives . This enabled the automation of the stations to be further advanced, with the locomotives being operated by the ground staff using portable control modules (beltpack) and the train formation process behind the drainage mountain by remote-controlled track brakes from the signal box . The entire maneuvering process is monitored by the signal box with the aid of a computer. In addition, the locomotives and freight wagons are equipped with transponders and their positions are constantly monitored by GPS , which means that the shunting locomotives can automatically be stopped in an emergency when leaving defined areas. In the 2000s the system caught on in the USA and is now used by all Class 1 railroad companies.

In contrast to the CN, the CPR transported more and more bulk goods such as grain , coal or potash salt , whose share of the revenue from goods transport of the CPR 2018 was 41%. Since bulk goods are mostly transported by block trains , thus eliminating the need for on- the-go treatment, many of the CPR marshalling yards in Canada and the USA, including the CPR Toronto Yard, were shut down under the direction of E. Hunter Harrison . The tracks of the direction harp were then dismantled, only the adjacent railway depot and the former entry and exit groups are still preserved.

description

The track systems of the marshalling yard at the end of the 2010s, the former direction port in the center (72 tracks) was removed

Until the beginning of the 2010s, the flat station was divided into a directional harp consisting of eight groups, each with nine tracks in the center, into which the freight wagons were pushed over a single-track drainage mountain from southwest to northeast ; the tracks are no longer available today. The capacity was around 1,300 freight cars per day. On the east side there are maintenance halls with several continuous tracks for freight cars and diesel locomotives . The central area in the west is surrounded by the approach group with eleven tracks and several bypass tracks for the Havelock subdivision . To the east is the exit group with nine tracks and the adjacent bypass tracks of the Belleville Subdivision , in front of which there is another group of tracks over a length of about 2.5 km for accommodating long trains.

See also

Web links

Commons : CPR Toronto Yard  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RL Kennedy: Canadian Pacific Railway Lambton Yard. Old Times Trains. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
  2. ^ A b R. L. Kennedy: Canadian Pacific Railway Toronto Yard. Old Times Trains. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
  3. ^ Canadian National's Mimico Yard. on Railpictures.ca. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
  4. ^ Leo Ryan: CN Subsidiary Develops Beltpack to Operate Locomotives Remote. JOC.com, November 20, 1994. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
  5. ↑ Railway Investigation Report R07T0270 (17 September 2007). Transportation Safety Board of Canada. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
  6. ↑ Railway Investigation Report R10T0020 (9 February 2010). Transportation Safety Board of Canada. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
  7. ↑ Greg Gormick: Rebuilding railway yards, by bits and bytes. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, June 21, 2004. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
  8. ↑ Canac Inc .: BELTPACK (R) locomotive remote control systems now number over 500 in North America - CSXT orders 75 BELTPACK (R) LRC Systems. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, March 20, 2003. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
  9. ↑ CP 2018 ANNUAL REPORT. Canadian Pacific Railway, Calgary February 15, 2019. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
  10. ^ Guy Dixon: Canadian Pacific cuts deep as Hunter Harrison makes his mark. The Globe and Mail, December 4, 2012. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
  11. ↑ Railway Investigation Report R03T0026 (21 January 2003). Transportation Safety Board of Canada. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
  12. ↑ Michael Rhodes: North American Railyards. Voyageur Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-76034-609-9 , pp. 142-144.