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Canadian National RailYard

Canadian National Rail Yard

On one of our trips to Toronto, we stumbled upon this Canadian National Rail Yard. We sat there, outside the fence for about 20 minutes. Just our luck, 2 semi trucks drove through the gate, we drove in to (don't tell anyone, haha). We were driving around the yard for about an hour and a half before we were asked to leave. We did get to see an entire 50 car train pushed over the hump and roll into the staging yard, as well as the heavy repair shop, engine shop, and car repair area! Here are a few of the 100+ pictures I took.......

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Switcher descending the hump after pushing a long string of about 50 cars over it, notice the two slugs.

Engines

Lots of engines

The hump

Engines descending the hump after pushing an entire train over it!

GP20 yard helper, he was doing some light switching

SW1500 switcher

String of engines near the engine facility

Control tower atop the hump

An over view of the yard, my best estimates put it at 1.5 miles in length and at least 3/4 mile wide! I have never seen anything that big before

Over view of the yard

Another overview of the yard

 

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