London, ON: CP Depot, Adelaide Railyard and EMD Plant

Depot: (Satellite)

Adelaide Railyard: (Satellite)

EMD: (Satellite)

Street View, Jan 2021

Street View, Oct 2023

Street View, Sep 2017

This railyard was used to finish fighting a fire in five gondola cars after tall flames were fought for 90 minutes in a residential district. [Dennis DeBruler]

London Fire Department Tweeted two photos with the comment: "Fire crews continue to dose smouldering wooden railway ties at Adelaide Yard. Using @RosenbauerGroup  T-Rex Aerial Truck."

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Electro-Motive Division (EMD) Plant

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GMD London

General Motors Diesel, Ltd. (GMD) was the Canadian arm of General Motors' Electro-Motive Division. 

GMD built a plant in London, Ontario in 1950. It was a scaled down version of the primary locomotive EMD shops in Lagrange, Illinois. By building locomotives in Canada EMD was able to bypass the steep tariffs and customs rates they had been paying when exporting locos from the US.

In 1988, EMD announced that they would move locomotive assembly from La Grange, Illinois, to their plant in London, Ontario.  EMD began the demolition of La Grange plant in 2000.

In 1998 EMD began assembling locomotives in Mexico, under contract to Bombardier-Concarril at Sahagun, Mexico.

In 2010 Progress Rail Services Tuesday purchased Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. (EMD) for $820 million in cash from Berkshire Partners LLC and Greenbriar Equity Group LLC.

The end of the plant came in 2012 when Progress Rail Services Corp. announced it was closing the Electro-Motive Canada locomotive plant in London.

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A-100 the first unit of the first order C-100, CPR 4028, shown here on August 11,1950.

Note the nearly completed GP-7, TH&B 71 in the background.

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Order C-430 was for 75 SD40-2 units (5950-6024) for CPRail. (Note the chalk marked #13 on the nose of one unit. This should be A-3969, the 5962 delivered October 31,1980. At a cost of $1 Million each!

The price was a long ways from the cost of units in 1950, and there was still a long way to go! CPRail News.

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Brian D Sokoloski: What is Happening at the London Ontario Plant Property in 2024.

Rob Sterne: Brian D Sokoloski It is now HCL Logistics.

I'm surprised that the track diagram did not include their test track. They had room for it on the diagram.

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