Public Relations and Advertising Department
Windsor
Station Montreal Que. H3C 3E4
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Volume 7 Number 12
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Sept. 21, 1977
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Three Solid Fertiizer Trains to Serve West Coast Export
Terminals
South America Bound: An
82-car solid train of ferilizer pulls out of the Cominco plan at Carseland, Alberta, enroute to Port
Moody, BC. It is the first of three such trains provided by CP Rail to move more than 24 thousand tons of granular
urea fertilizer to the west coast for export to South America.
Calgary - A new solid train service for the movement of
fertilizer products has been started by CP Rail.
Three Week Period
Three 82-car trains will move 8,200 tons each of granular urea fertilizer over a three week period from
Cominco Ltd.'s new ammonia/urea plant at Carseland, Alberta, to Port Moody, BC, for export to South America.
Regularly scheduled solid train movements of the product will be put into operation later this year.
The railway has acquired 353 new 100-ton capacity covered hopper cars from National Steel Car
Corporation at a cost of $11.4 million. About 190 of the new cars are dedicated on a continuous basis to the
domestic and internantional shipping needs of Cominco's new Carseland plant.
The balance of the cars will be used largely to service Canadian Ferilizers Ltd. at Medicine Hat, Alberta.
"The acquisition of these new cars and the design of a solid train system for Cominco reflects a continually
growing need for the railway to meet the specialized demands of individual shippers", said W.D. Wilks, general
manager of marketing and sales for CP Rail's Pacific Region.
Fertilizer
Urea is a granular, high nitrogen fertilizer used for agricultural crop and forest fertilization.
This CP Rail News article is
copyright 1977 by the Canadian Pacific Railway and is reprinted here with
their permission. All photographs, logos, and trademarks are the property of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company.
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