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way serving Greater Chicago and northwest Indiana, and has two major intermodal terminals in Chicago and one in Minneapolis. In addition, the company has a major locomotive repair facility at St. Paul and car repair facilities at St. Paul and Chicago. The company shares a yard with KCS in Kansas City. The Eastern Corridor: Thunder Bay-Montreal and Detroit The Eastern Corridor extends from Thunder Bay through to its eastern terminus at Montreal and from Toronto to Chicago via Windsor/Detroit. The company’s Eastern Corridor provides shippers direct rail service from Toronto and Montreal to Calgary and Vancouver via its Western Corridor and to the U.S. via its Central Corridor. This is a key element of the company’s transcontinental intermodal and other services, as well as truck trailers moving in drive-on/drive-off Expressway service between Montreal and Toronto. Products: Major traffic categories transported in the Eastern Corridor include forest and industrial and consumer products, intermodal containers, automotive products and general merchandise. Feeder Lines: A major feeder line that serves the steel industry at Hamilton, Ontario provides connections to both the company’s Northeast U.S. corridor and other U.S. carriers at Buffalo. Connections: The Eastern Corridor connects with a number of shortline railways, including routes from Montreal to Quebec City, Quebec and Montreal to Saint John, New Brunswick and Searsport, Maine. The company owns a route to Temiscaming, Quebec via North Bay, Ontario operated by short line Ottawa Valley Railway, where connections are made with the Ontario Northland Railway. Connections are also made with CN at a number of locations, including Sudbury, North Bay, Windsor, London, Hamilton, Toronto, Ontario and Montreal and NS and CSX Corporation (CSX) at Detroit and Buffalo, as well as CSX in Montreal. Yards and Repair Facilities: The company supports its rail operations in the Eastern Corridor with major rail yards at Toronto, London, Windsor and Montreal. Its major intermodal facility is located in the northern Toronto suburb of Vaughan and serves the Greater Toronto and southwestern Ontario areas. The company also operates intermodal terminals at Montreal and Detroit. Terminals for the company’s Expressway service are located in Montreal and at Milton in the Greater Toronto area. The company has locomotive repair facilities at Montreal and Toronto and car repair facilities at Thunder Bay, Toronto, and Montreal. The Northeast U.S. Corridor: Buffalo and Montreal to New York The Northeast U.S. Corridor provides an important link between the major population centers of eastern Canada, the U.S. Midwest and the U.S. Northeast. The corridor extends from Montreal to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania via Plattsburgh, Albany and Schenectady, New York. Products: Major traffic categories transported on the Northeast U.S. Corridor include industrial and consumer products. Feeder Lines: The Northeast U.S. Corridor connects with important feeder lines. The company’s route between Montreal and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in combination with trackage rights over other railways, provides it with direct access to New York City; Philadelphia; and Newark, New Jersey. Agreements with NS provide the company with access to shippers and receivers in the Conrail shared asset regions of New Jersey via Harrisburg. The southern tier route between Guelph Junction, Ontario, Buffalo and Binghamton, New York that includes haulage rights over NS lines, links industrial southern Ontario with key U.S. connecting rail carriers at Buffalo and provides access to the company for short line carriers along the Buffalo to Binghamton route. Connections: The company has major connections with NS at Harrisburg and Allentown in Pennsylvania, and with CSX at Philadelphia. Multiple shortline connections exist throughout the corridor. Yards and Repair Facilities: The company supports its Northeast U.S. Corridor with a major rail yard in Binghamton. It has locomotive and car repair facilities in Montreal and Binghamton, in addition to car repair facilities in Chicago and locomotive and car repair facilities in To