May 12, 2023 | CP-KCS Merger, CPKC, Headlines, Lawsuit, STB
(Source: Television station WLS, May 11, 2023) Northwest suburban Chicago is beginning to see the impact of the recent $30 billion-plus railway merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern. A coalition of suburban Chicago communities has filed a safety appeal...
May 12, 2023 | CPKC, Headlines, Mexico
(Source: Freight Waves, May 11, 2023) This latest offering, which CPKC says will be “the first truck-competitive, single-line rail service option between the Midwest and Mexico,” comes as competing Class I railroads aim to bolster their own transcontinental offerings....
May 9, 2023 | CPKC, Headlines, Mexico, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine analysis by Bill Stephens, May 8, 2023) Union Pacific’s decision to challenge the Surface Transportation Board’s approval of the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger is likely a last-ditch attempt to protect its cross-border traffic...
May 9, 2023 | CN, CPKC, Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, May 8, 2023) CN is taking issue with the amount of data reporting that Canadian Pacific Kansas City wants to submit to the Surface Transportation Board as part of the board’s post-merger oversight. Full story: Progressive...
May 8, 2023 | CPKC, Headlines, Mexico
(Source: Trains Magazine, May 5, 2023) Mexico is seeking to incorporate Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) into three projects, Business News Americas reported. After a meeting between Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, U.S. officials, and CPKC executives...
May 5, 2023 | CPKC, Headlines, Shippers, Technology
(Source: Freight Waves, May 4, 2023) Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Teck Resources will conduct a pilot program starting in early 2024 in which coal used in steel production will be transported from Teck’s mines in southeastern British Columbia to western ports...
May 3, 2023 | BNSF, Commuter Rail, CPKC, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, May 2, 2023) The Surface Transportation Board has denied requests by Metra and BNSF Railway to participate in an upcoming technical conference to determine details of metrics reported by Canadian Pacific Kansas City to the board, as required...
May 3, 2023 | Canada, CN, CPKC, Headlines, Mexico, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, May 2, 2023) Canadian National, Union Pacific, and Ferromex have significantly tightened the schedules for the new intermodal service they will launch on May 15 to link Canada and Detroit with Mexico. Full story: Trains...
May 2, 2023 | Canada, CPKC, Headlines
(Source: West Central Online, May 1, 2023) CPKC’s assistant vice president of sales and marketing – bulk Elizabeth Hucker says for the last three weeks they’ve moved an average of 539,000 metric tons of grain per week. She notes that’s well...
May 2, 2023 | CPKC, Headlines, Mexico
(Source: Supply Chain Dive, May 1, 2023) The head of the newly-formed Canadian Pacific Kansas City railroad isn’t concerned about rivals’ plans to start a competing intermodal service connecting the U.S. and Mexico, asserting CPKC will offer “a much superior service.”...