June 19, 2023 | CPKC, Headlines, Mexico
(Source: The Loadstar, June 19, 2023) Canadian Pacific Kansas City Rail (CPKC) is bullish on the prospects for its Mexico intermodal reefer service launched last month despite the closure last week of one of the pioneers of the concept. Full story: The...
June 13, 2023 | AFL-CIO, CPKC, Headlines, TTD
(Source: Freight Waves, June 12, 2023) Rail labor groups are rejecting efforts by CPKC to extend and potentially make permanent a waiver that enables the Class I railroad from its Calgary, Alberta, office to dispatch trains at three locations near the U.S.-Canada...
June 12, 2023 | Canada, CN, CPKC, Headlines, Legislation
(Source: Canadian Press, June 11, 2023) Set to come into effect with Ottawa’s federal budget bill, an obscure law has Canada’s two main railways fighting back over concerns about expenses and congestion, with the drama playing out in social media posts and...
June 9, 2023 | CPKC, Derailment, Headlines
(Source: CTV News, June 8, 2023) Crews are cleaning up after a train derailment about 100 kilometres east of Calgary Thursday afternoon. A spokesperson for Canadian Pacific Kansas City Southern confirmed that “multiple cars of a CPKC freight train carrying...
June 7, 2023 | CPKC, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, June 5, 2023) CPKC employees will select the railway’s new locomotive livery through an online survey, a company spokesman says. The SurveyMonkey poll asks the railway’s 20,345 employees to choose one of five proposed paint schemes for CPKC...
June 1, 2023 | CPKC, Derailment, Headlines
(Source: CBS Minnesota, May 31, 2023) For the second time within two months, a train carrying hazardous materials has derailed in Minnesota. Canadian Pacific (CPKC) says 24 cars on a freight train went off the rails Wednesday at about 4:30 p.m. near the Kittson County...
May 31, 2023 | CPKC, Headlines, Mexico
(Source: Canadian Pacific Kansas City press release, May 30, 2023) CALGARY — Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) today announced the addition of 1,000 new, 53-foot, refrigerated intermodal containers to its network, more than doubling CPKC’s existing fleet and...
May 22, 2023 | Commuter Rail, CPKC, Headlines, STB
(Source: Railfan & Railroad Magazine, May 22, 2023) Chicago area commuter operator Metra has joined the chorus of opposition against the U.S. Surface Transportation Board and its approval of the Canadian Pacific – Kansas City Southern merger earlier this spring....
May 15, 2023 | CPKC, Headlines
(Source: Canadian Pacific Kansas City press release, May 16, 2023) CALGARY — Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) today released selected combined historical financial information for the year ended Dec. 31, 2022 and the first quarter of 2023 reflecting CPKC results as...
May 12, 2023 | CP-KCS Merger, CPKC, Headlines
(Source: Star Tribune, May 10, 2023) A recently completed merger between two of the country’s top-tier rail lines will send more trains along the upper Mississippi River — and in some areas, thousands more carloads of hazardous materials. Full story: Star...
