New Canada grain mega-terminal opens on Canadian Pacific line

Written by Railway Age Staff
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The Foothills Terminal is Paterson Grain's fourth inland export terminal in Alberta, Canada. Photo: Paterson GlobalFoods

Canadian Pacific Railway will provide service for a new, mammoth grain terminal in Alberta province.

Paterson Grain opened the Foothills Terminal, the latest addition to its provincial network, in Bowden, Alberta on August 29.

Foothills, a high-throughput inland export hub, can store 2.2 million bushels of grain, and ship 75,000 bushels per hour. The facility also includes a 150-car loop track capable of loading a unit train in eight hours. A fully automated truck loop design ensures fast turnaround for delivering trucks.

Paterson Grain, a unit of Paterson GlobalFoods based in Winnipeg, will use the facility to move grain to its export terminal at the Port of Vancouver 660 miles west. It’s the company’s fourth inland export hub in Alberta.

Earlier this year another grain handler, GrainsConnect Canada, began construction on the first high-throughput grain terminal in the area, in Niobe, about 11 miles north

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