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Oct 17, 2007 - N Scale

New Cominco 3 Bay ACF Special Run Hoppers

The Cominco N Scale Hoppers are in. Here is a picture of the completed car.

 

Cominco N Scale Picture

 

These cars should be of interest to our Canadian Pacific Customers. These cars were used by CP Rail Cominco Mining Division which did owe the Cominco Lead/Zinc Smelter in Trail, British Columbia.

Teck Cominco Ltd - Teck Cominco Limited is a diversified mining, smelting and refining group and a world leader in the production of metallurgical coal and zinc and is also a significant producer of copper, gold, and specialty metals.

Teck-Cominco (TSX: TEK, NYSE: TCK) is a Canadian mining company. It was formed from the amalgamation of Teck and Cominco in 2001.

Cominco started in 1906 as The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, formed by the amalgamation of several units controlled by the Canadian Pacific Railway. CM&S, or "Smelters" as it was often called by investors, changed its name to Cominco in 1966. Cominco's core Sullivan Mine, which began production in 1909, would operate for more than 90 years until its ore reserves exhausted in 2001.

Teck began as Teck-Hughes Gold Mines Limited in 1913, to develop a gold discovery by prospectors Sandy McIntyre and James Hughes at Kirkland Lake, Ontario. The Teck-Hughes Mine would produce for 50 years until 1965. The Beaverdell Mine, purchased by Teck in 1969, went back even further to 1898, and produced silver until 1991.

The association between Teck and Cominco began in 1986, when Teck and two industry partners acquired a shareholding from CP Limited, and culminated with the merging of the two companies in July 2001.

On May 8, 2006, Teck Cominco offered to purchase Inco for $16 billion.

(source wikapedia)



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