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| Headquarters | Port Cartier |
| Reporting mark | AMMC |
| Dates of operation | 1960–Present |
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| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge |
| Length | 260 miles (418 km) |
The Cartier Railway (reporting marks AMMC, AMIC, AMC) (formerly CFC and QCM) is a privately owned railway that operates 260 miles (418 km) of track in the Canadian province of Québec.
It is operated by the Cartier Railway Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Arcelor Mittal, formerly Québec Cartier Mining Company.
The railway connects the company's huge iron ore mine at Mont-Wright in Northeastern Québec with the company's processing plant and port at Port-Cartier, formerly Shelter Bay, which is located on the northern banks of the St. Lawrence River.
The Cartier Railway has 26 locomotives, over 950 ore cars, 300 utility cars, and various other pieces of maintenance equipment.
The railway, along with other Northeastern Québec railways, including the Tshiuetin Rail Transportation line, the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway and the Arnaud Railway is completely isolated from any other railway network in North America. Although the other railways connect to each other, they do not have any direct connections to this railway, making this one completely isolated from any other railway, aside from rail ferry service via COGEMA to the CN Rail port at Matane, Quebec.