To date the property has produced more than 63,500 freight cars since it opened in 1913. The plant occupies 69,000 m2 (17 acres) of heated floor space under one roof; the main building consisting of four bays, each wide and 1,100–1,300 feet long. The plant property occupies 650,000 m2 (160 acres) of land. There are of railway track in the facility which is served by its own railway locomotives (several GE 45 ton industrial switchers); the plant interchanges with the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway in Trenton.