The Cartier Railway is a privately owned railway operating 260 miles of track in the Canadian province of Quebec, run by the Cartier Railway Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of ArcelorMittal and formerly known as Quebec Cartier Mining Company. It connects an iron ore mine at Mont-Wright in northeastern Quebec with a processing plant and port at Port-Cartier on the north bank of the St. Lawrence River. The railway operates 26 locomotives and more than 950 ore cars along with about 300 utility cars, and along with neighboring railways in the region it is completely isolated from the rest of the North American rail network, aside from a rail ferry connection to a CN Rail port at Matane, Quebec.
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Founded Year SignificanceCarries iron ore from the Mont-Wright mine to a processing plant and port at Port-Cartier and, together with neighboring railways in the region, is completely isolated from the rest of the North American rail network. 1 HeadquartersPort-Cartier, Quebec, Canada 1 In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Canada, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Cartier Railway
Beginnings section
In 1958, United States Steel formed the Quebec Cartier Mining Company to construct an iron-ore mine in the iron-rich Quebec-Labrador Trough
Infobox
Headquarters: Port Cartier
Introduction section, isolation sentence
The railway, along with other Northeastern Quebec railways, including the Tshiuetin Rail Transportation line, the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway and the Arnaud Railway is completely isolated from any other railway network in North America.
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