The railcar plant was known by various names over the years including: Eastern Car, Hawker Siddeley, Lavalin, Trenton Works and Greenbrier. The last owner, a division of Daewoo Shipbuilding of South Korea used the facility to build wind turbines but has now closed.

Over the years.....thousands of railcars were constructed at the old Car Works Plant in Trenton Nova Scotia by various owners including Eastern Car, DOSCO, Hawker Siddeley, Trenton Works, Lavalin and Greenbrier. Today...all that's left on the site …

The train crew unions fought hard to retain the assigned cabooses, but when run through cabooses became part of the collective agreement, CN decided to construct a modern design in their own Point St.Charles shop, and to order a similar design from Hawker Siddeley from Trenton NS.

Hawker Siddeley was a British aerospace company that took over Canadian Car & Foundry's Thunder Bay ON. plant. CC&F set up the plant to make subway & transit cars in the 1960's. After making Toronto subways cars, the T.Bay plant built the GO Transit single deck commuter cars, the CN Tempo coaches now used on the Algoma Central, these Government ...

The passenger cars regularily used in the 80's and 90's were Budd or AC&F, Canadian hawker-siddeley aluminium cars ordered new mostly for SEGUNDAS and Kinki-Sharyo Japanese cars made in Sahagun, Hidalgo in the late 80's, as these we the last order and had trucks of the Shinkansen for high-speed service from Mexico City to Queretaro's Star ...