Procor
Industry | Special railcar leasing and repair |
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Founded | 1952; 72 years ago (1952) in Canada (as Products Tank Line Limited) |
Headquarters | Oakville, Ontario , Canada |
Products | Tank car, Hopper car, Gondola car (before 2002) |
Owner | Union Tank Car Company (since 1952) |
Website | www |
Procor is a Canadian company producing railway shipping cars. It is Canada's largest private rail car rental fleet, with more than 30,000 conventional and special-purpose tank and freight cars.
Linked to Sparling Tank Car of Toronto,[1] Procor was founded in 1952 as Products Tank Line Limited and became an affiliate of US-based Union Tank Car Company. The company, which shortened its name to Procor in 1962, is headquartered in Oakville, Ontario.[2][3]
Manufacturing and sepair
Procor manufactured cars in its Oakville shops until 2002, but now sources from parent Union Tank Car's plant in Alexandria, Louisiana and Sheldon, Texas.[4][5]
List of cars once manufactured by Procor:
- Hopper car
- Tank car - (sulphuric acid, LPG, ethanol)
- Funnel flow tank car
- Coal gondola
Procor operates from numerous locations across Canada.
Repair shops
- Joffre, Alberta
- Edmonton, Alberta
- Regina, Saskatchewan
- Sarnia, Ontario
- Oakville, Ontario
Mobile/mini shops
- Regina West
- Prince George, British Columbia
- North Vancouver, British Columbia
- Trail, British Columbia
- Waterton, Alberta
- Joffre, Alberta
- Edmonton, Alberta
- Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Greater Sudbury, Ontario
- Nanticoke, Ontario
- Montreal, Quebec
See also
- Horbury railway works - Procor's British unit from 1974 to 1990
References
External links
- PROCOR Corporate Site
- PROCOR Railcar Gallery
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