By James Peters

Rail terminal construction begins on former sawmill site

Dec 20, 2016 | 2:39 PM

KAMLOOPS — The company planning to open a rail service terminal on the former Weyerhaeuser sawmill property says it has begun laying track.

Cando Rail Services says it plans to begin serving customers on the site by next summer.

The Manitoba-based company announced its purchase of the property in January, saying it plans to build a full service terminal on the site.

When it is fully constructed, it is expected to employ between 20 and 50 people, and offer industrial switching, transloading, railcar storage and repair, and track and engineering services.

In a news release, Cando CEO Brian Cornick says planning and site preparation took longer than expected, but he says the company still considers Kamloops the ideal location for its terminal and base of operations in BC.

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Cando would bring another heavy industrial operation inside city limits.

Kamloops has lost two heavy industrial businesses in the past two years, with this year’s closure of the Lafarge cement plant, and the 2015 departure of Arclin Canada.

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