Type | Subsidiary |
---|---|
Industry | Rail transport |
Founded | 1899 |
Successor | Alstom |
Headquarters | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | Locomotives High-speed trains Intercity and commuter trains Trams People movers Signalling systems |
AMF Technotransport was a locomotive and railway rolling stock maintenance facility in Pointe-Saint-Charles, an area of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was originally the Pointe-Saint-Charles shops of Canadian National Railways (CNR) and became a separate subsidiary in 1993 under the name AMF Technotransport. [1]
In 1995, CN awarded a contract to manage AMF to GEC-Alsthom. [2] In 1996, CNR sold AMF to GEC-Alsthom. [3] [4] GEC-Alsthom subsequently changed its name to Alstom. [5] By 1998, Alstom had dropped the AMF name and identified the facility as Alstom's Montreal remanufacturing centre or its Montreal rail centre. [6]
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