| September 1922, No. 295 | Canadian Railway and Marine World (Toronto) | Page 422, col. 2 |
Canadian National Railways construction, betterments, etc.
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Mount Yard, Fort William.—A press report states that at the end of July about 150 men were at work on this new yard. Another report says that R. G. Duncan, formerly President Fort William Board of Trade, on a recent visit to Winnipeg, stated that 250 acres of land had been acquired for the yard, and that when the work is completed there will be three district yards—a westbound departure yard with 14 tracks; an eastbound arrival yard with 8 tracks, and a classification yard with 20 tracks; That the yards will be so laid out that the capacity of each can be doubled when required: That the yards would be built on an incline so as to do away with an artificial hump; That the buildings connected with the yards would consist of a 24-stall locomotive house, machine shop, storehouses, scales, van sidings, tanks, coaling station, yard offices, power house, and permanent bunk houses, together with the necessary water and sewer systems, and that the whole work will be done by the company's own forces.