AMF Technotransport
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AMF Technotransport was a locomotive and railway rolling stock maintenance facility in Pointe-Saint-Charles
Pointe-Saint-Charles
Pointe-Saint-Charles is a neighbourhood in the borough of Le Sud-Ouest in city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.-Geography:...

, an area of Montreal
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Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Quebec
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, Canada
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. It was originally the Pointe-Saint-Charles shops of Canadian National Railways and became a separate subsidiary in 1993 under the name AMF Technotransport.

In 1995, CN awarded a contract to manage AMF to GEC-Alsthom. In 1996, CN sold AMF to GEC-Alsthom. GEC-Alsthom subsequently changed its name to Alstom
Alstom
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. By 1998, Alstom had dropped the AMF name and identified the facility as Alstom's Montreal remanufacturing centre or its Montreal rail centre.
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