The Canadian Pacific Railway, founded in 1881, is a 13,800 mile railroad that spans most of Canada and the northeastern quarter of the United States. While the railroad is best remembered for its fine Canadian passenger train, which started its first run on April 23-24,1955 and made its last run over its traditional Canadian Pacific route in early 1990. Today, the railway's main focus is on the range of freight service it provides its customers throughout its service area. In addition, Canadian Pacific is also well known for its large battalion of GM SD40/SD40-2 3000 hp road freight locomotives, of which the railway had more than 600 of the units. That fleet has dwindled to 449 units, all of them SD40-2s. Operationally, the railroad is divided into four main line corridors, plus the feeder and collector lines. The main line corridors are as follows:



1.Western Corridor;Vancouver,BC to Moose Jaw,Sask. Major yards in this territory are at Vancouver,Calgary,Edmonton,and Moose Jaw, with locomotive and car repair facilities at Vancouver,Goldern, and Moose Jaw.



2.Southern Corridor: Moose Jaw-Twin Cities-Milwaukee-Chicago. Major yards in this territory are at Chicago, St.Paul,Glenwood,with locomotive repair shop in St. Paul and car shops in St.Paul and Chicago.



3.Central Corridor: Moose Jaw-Winnepeg-Toronto. Major yards in this territory are located at Saskatoon,Winnepeg,Thunder Bay, and Toronto. Locomotive shops are at Winnipeg,Toronto.Car shops are at Winnipeg,Thunder Bay, and Toronto.



4.Eastern Corridor: Montreal,PQ to Sunbury,PA.Major yards in this territory are at Montreal,Chicago,Toronto, and Binghamton,NY. Car and locomotive repair facilities are found at Toronto,Chicago,Montreal and Binghamton.

The total mileage of 13,800 breaks down as follows:

1.MAINLINE CORRIDORS

A.Western Corridor, 1075

B.Southern Corridor,1145

C.Central Corridor,1625

D.Eastern Corridor,901

2.MAIN COLLECTORS AND FEEDERS

A.Coal route, 290 miles

B.Calgary-Edmonton,190 miles

C.Pacific CanAm Route,396 miles

D.Winnipeg-Glenwood, 327 miles

E.Minneapolis-Duluth/Superior,170 miles

F.Edmonton-Winnipeg, 847 miles

G.Smiths Falls-Sudbury,305 miles

H.Montreal-Sudbury,639 miles

I.Guelph Jct.-Binghamton, 293 miles

LOCOMOTIVE FLEET COMPOSITION AND BREAKDOWN BY TYPE

A.Road Freight, 3000 hp and up, 1124

B.Roadswitcher 289

C.Yardswitcher 260

D.Short Term Leased 2

Total locomotive fleet 1655 units

ROAD FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVES BY TYPE

1.EMD GP40 14 units

2.EMD GP40-2 16 units

3.EMD SD40-2 449 units

4.EMD SD60 63 units

5.EMD SD90MAC 81 units

6.EMD SD90MAC 4 units

7.GE AC4400 497 units
FREIGHT CARS BY TYPE
Covered Hoppers 26,200
Open Top Hoppers 5,400
Boxcars 6,100
Gondolas 2,900
Flats 3,000
Automotive 3,300
As can be seen by the predominance of covered hopper cars as the major car types, bulk commodities, such as grain, potash, and the like make up much of the freight traffic of the railway. To classify groups of freight cars into new trains, the following are the major freight classification yards around the Canadian Pacific system and their daily car capacities:
1.Vancouver,BC 2500
2.Calgary,AB 2224
3.Edmonton,AB 540
4.Saskatoon,SA 765
5.Moose Jaw,SA 1309
6.Winnipeg,MA 2400
7.Glenwood,MN 756
8.St.Paul,MN 1600
9.Thunder Bay,ON 2679
10.Chicago,IL 2100
11.Toronto,ON 3000
12.Montreal,PQ 1650
13.Binghamton,NY 700
All of these yards and smaller satellite facilities handle the carload freight traffic of the railway, while intermodal freight is handled by the following terminals with their annual lift capacities:
1.Great Meadows(Vancouver,BC) 264,000
2.Calgary 220,000
3.Edmonton 115,000
4.Regina 25,000
5.Winnipeg 115,000
6.Minneapolis 100,000
7.Dryden,ON 12,000
8.Thunder Bay,ON 10,000
9.Milwaukee,WI 18,000
10.Bensenville,IL 135,000
11.Schiller Park,IL 145,000
12.Detroit,MI 98,000
13.Obico(Toronto,ON) 170,000
14.Vaughan(Toronto,ON) 664,000
15.Lachine(Montreal,PQ) 275,000
16.Ameriport(Philadelphia),PA 40,000
17.Taylor,PA 10,000
18.Oak Island(Newark),NJ 30,000
19.Albany,NY 20,000
All these facilities handle the intermodal business of the Canadian Pacific Railway. This traffic moves in both dedicated trains as well as regular freight trains handling regular carload traffic.