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Overview

Description The Turcot Yards is the biggest vacant area in north america(9 million square feet). With 6 buildings and a control tower, it takes about 40 minutes to walk from ont side to the other. The yards are dividing NDG from St-Henri A former train yard with warehouses and administration buildings, they stored the merchandise before sending it to the Port of Montreal for further transportations. The tracks have been removed. Located under the highways, the yard is a great and interesting place with tons of rooms, buildings & space to explore.





Basic Information Type: Outdoors and a couple of buildings

Status: Demolished- Except for Cortell

Accessibility: Moderate

Recommendation: check it out if you're nearby

Physical Information Address

~5000-6000~ Pullman street

Montreal, Quebec

Canada

Owner: Transports Quebec

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Hazards dust

Interesting Features Moved their loading activities to the 360-acre Taschereau Yards in the area of Ville St-Laurent and LaSalle.







Security Measures fences

barbed wire

part-time guard

24 hour guard

locked gates

wooden boarding

Historical Dates Built: 1860

Closed: 2002



Required Equipment flashlight

breathing mask

gloves

long pants / sleeves

Recommended Equipment mask



History Turcot Yard comes from the name of an old St-Henri family.

was built on a drained lake

had a roundhouse at the eastern end torn down to build the interchange

still has 2 active tracks

was a general sorting yard till the mid 80s when it specialized in intermodal.





Media Coverage Alot of newspaper articles



The Mirror: http://www.montrea.../091202/news1.html

The gazette: http://www.canada....-9f01-9fa26a6b8731



Charlie Dunver's blog: Walking Turcot Yards

Future Plans CN has agreed in to parcel the yards off into three sections and sell them to separate industrial and commercial buyers, whose identities are not revealed.The other two sections have also attracted buyers, although who will be allowed to build what on the site is far from being determined and remains subject to borough council input.



The city is planning to build laundry services for the upcoming superhospital for 2005.



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Category Rating Photography 7 / 10 Coolness 8 / 10 Content Quality 8 / 10 Validation Mutt on 3/5/2010 2:29 PM.



Latest Changes on Mar 5 10 at 14:29, Mutt validated this location

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