May 1, 2023 | CPKC, Derailment, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, April 29, 2023) Maine environmental regulators have asked a railroad cleaning up a freight train derailment site to repair forest management roads and culverts damaged by heavy equipment and that led to the discharge of sediment into area...
April 28, 2023 | CPKC, Headlines, Quarterly Income
(Source: World Grain, April 26, 2023) Led by a robust grain business, Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) railroad in its first-quarter earnings report said revenue was C$2.27 billion, up 23% from C$1.84 billion year-over-year for the three months ended March 31. A...
April 27, 2023 | CP-KCS Merger, CPKC, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, Railroad Safety
(Source: Reckon Media, April 26, 2023) What is known is that the CPKC merger will drastically increase rail traffic in dozens of U.S. neighborhoods from Chicago to Texas’s border with Mexico. Traffic is expected to at least quadruple as the trains haul anything from...
April 27, 2023 | CPKC, Headlines, Quarterly Income
(Source: Canadian Press, April 26, 2023) Fresh from a historic merger, Canadian Pacific Kansas City president and CEO Keith Creel says the company is focused on a disciplined integration into a railway network that he believes will become “the most relevant in...
April 27, 2023 | CPKC, Headlines, Mexico
(Source: Trains Magazine, April 26, 2023) CPKC’s first new service — a pair of intermodal trains linking Chicago and Mexico — will launch on May 11, carrying containers from new customers Schneider and Knight-Swift. Daily hotshots 180 and 181 will link Chicago with...
April 26, 2023 | CPKC, Headlines, Shippers, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, April 25, 2023) Knight-Swift will shift its U.S.-Mexico intermodal traffic from Union Pacific to CPKC’s new single-line route beginning in May. CPKC and Knight-Swift announced their multi-year agreement today, just four days after...
April 25, 2023 | Canada, CN, CPKC, Headlines, Mexico, UP
(Source: Associated Press, April 24, 2023) Three major freight railroads responded Monday to the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger with an agreement to work together on a competing service to carry shipments across North America. Canadian National, Union...
April 24, 2023 | CP-KCS Merger, CPKC, Headlines
(Source: Railfan & Railroad Magazine, April 14, 2023) Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern officially merged on Friday, April 14, creating a new Class I railroad dubbed “Canadian Pacific Kansas City.” The merger of the two railroads comes more than two years...
April 24, 2023 | CP-KCS Merger, CPKC, Headlines, Shippers
(Source: Trains Magazine, April 21, 2023) CPKC has landed a multi-year contract to handle Schneider National’s intermodal traffic between the U.S. and Mexico. Full story: Trains Magazine
April 24, 2023 | CPKC, Derailment, Headlines
(Source: The Saxon, April 22, 2023) Maine Department of Environmental Protection takes Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) to task for cleanup work following freight train derailment and fire occurred last week. Full story: The Saxon
