Richardson International has announced plans to expand eight grain elevators in the prairies.
The expansion includes an upgraded track system at some of its facilities in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta will start in the summer of 2023 and be complete by the end of 2024.
The locations for the rail track upgrades will include Richardson's elevators at Lacombe, Carseland, Provost and Olds, Alberta; Estevan, Whitewood and Nokomis, Saskatchewan; and the Dundonald elevator about 20 km north of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.
The expansion will work with CPKC's 8,500-foot High Efficiency Product (HEP) model train.
Richardson newest elevator at Carmichael, Sask. ( 70 kilometres from Swift Currrent ) commissioned in early 2023, is their first 8,500-foot HEP site.
Darwin Sobkow, Richardson's President and Chief Operations Officer says the expansion will increase capacity and efficiency, enabling Richardson to further benefit from CPKC's single-line network reaching Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.