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Symington Yard
Rail yard in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Symington Yard is the largest rail classification yard of the Canadian National Railway,[1][2] and one of the largest rail yards in the world.[2][3] The intermodal facility is located next to the Windsor Park area of Winnipeg, Manitoba.[1]
Built in 1962 to replace Transcona and Fort Rouge,[4] and named for former CNR Director Herbert James Symington (1881–1965),[3] it can store 7,000 cars and handles 3,000 cars per day.[2][5]
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Yard incidents
- December 15, 1983 — two sets of locomotives collide in the Yard killing a CP engineer[6]
- February 2, 1990 — eleven cars jackknifed and derailed at the bottom of the hump[6]
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