They've also found larger meaning in their work; crucially, these companies are passionate about they're doing — even when it's manufacturing railway ties. (canadianbusiness.com)
Based in St. Laurent, Que., Stella - Jones makes railway ties and utility poles, 82 % of them southward - bound, says 5i Research's Ryan Modesto. (canadianbusiness.com)
In the 1840s, his work had helped to launch the timber «pickling» industry, in which railway ties and telegraph poles were protected from decay by dipping them in creosote, made from coal tar. (scientificamerican.com)