Yarmouth Yards Rail Yard Update - From the Beehive E147 | St. Thomas Economic Development

Yarmouth Yards Update: The Rail Is Going In Fast | St. Thomas Economic Development


Rail is officially hitting the ground at Yarmouth Yards, the massive rail facility being built right next to the PowerCo gigafactory site in St. Thomas, Ontario. In this update, Mike from St. Thomas Economic Development caught up with Pat Anckaert from The City of St. Thomas Industrial Development Team for a construction progress check and gets the real numbers on timelines, track types, and that all-important golden spike ceremony.


In this video, you'll find out:
🛤️What the inbound, outbound, runaround, and storage tracks actually do (five storage tracks alone)
🛤️Why this will be the longest rail facility in St. Thomas, rivalling CN's yard in London🛤️The automated rail-laying machine doing the work of ten workers, and setting grade within a millimetre
🛤️The real completion timeline: main rail work wrapping by October 2026, with the DTMF switch and electrical infrastructure pushing full completion to October 2027
🛤️A tentative date for the golden spike ceremony marking the last rail spike of the project


This is one piece of the industrial growth happening in St. Thomas right now alongside the PowerCo gigafactory, and it's setting up Railway City for its next chapter as a rail and manufacturing hub in Southwestern Ontario.


Follow along for more site visits and construction updates as Yarmouth Yards takes shape.