PORT COQUITLAM, British Columbia — The widow of a Canadian Pacific engineer killed earlier this month says her husband was hit by the moving cars of another train as he ended his work day and wonders about safety procedures in the yard where the accident happened. Kirk McLean, 56 and a 32-year veteran of the […]
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Police, hazardous materials crews respond to CP train derailment and fire in Saskatchewan NEWSWIRE
REGINA, Saskatchewan — Royal Canadian Mounted Police are diverting traffic away from roads near a derailment of a Canadian Pacific train in Saskatchewan. The RCMP for Saskatchewan’s Twitter account began posting shortly after 7 a.m. on the derailment and fire. A Canadian Pacific representative tells Trains the derailment happened west of Guernsey, Sask., and that […]
CP, KCS to move Canadian oil sands bitumen to Texas in 10-year deal NEWSWIRE
Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern will haul unit trains of heavy crude oil bitumen from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast for the next decade under a deal with a trio of energy companies. The move, the first of its kind, is significant because it should allow railroads to participate in Canadian oil on […]
CP purchase of CM&Q will have little impact on Lac-Megantic bypass
LAC–MÉGANTIC, Quebec — The Canadian government says the sale of the Central Maine & Quebec Railway to Canadian Pacific will have little impact on the plan to build a rail bypass around a town devastated by a 2013 oil train derailment. In 2018, the Canadian government announced it would help fund a $100 million effort […]
Canadian National snares Canadian coal contract currently held by Canadian Pacific NEWSWIRE
MONTREAL — Canadian National has wrestled away a major Canadian metallurgical coal contract from rival Canadian Pacific. CN will begin hauling Teck coal from Kamloops, British Columbia, to port terminals in Vancouver and Prince Rupert, B.C., in April 2021, the companies announced on Wednesday. CP will continue to carry the coal from Teck’s four CP-served […]
Canadian Pacific has eyes on its old route to Quebec City NEWSWIRE
Keith Creel, Canadian Pacific CEO Canadian Pacific PALM BEACH, Fla. — Piece by piece, Canadian Pacific wants to reacquire routes it cast off east of Montreal two decades ago. In November, CP said it would acquire the 401-mile Central Maine & Quebec, a deal that includes former CP trackage from Montreal to Maine and a […]
CP employee killed in British Columbia NEWSWIRE
VANCOUVER — A 56-year-old Canadian Pacific employee was killed on the job this week at the railroad’s yard in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, near Vancouver. Spokesman Andy Cummings confirms an employee was killed on Dec. 2 but offered few details about the events surrounding the incident. He says a “thorough investigation is underway.” The Transportation […]
Chicago interchange dispute: Canadian Pacific 1, Canadian National 0 NEWSWIRE
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators have given Canadian Pacific a limited victory in its dispute with Canadian National over where the railroads should interchange traffic in Chicago. CN’s unilateral request to have Canadian Pacific run 84 miles through the busy Chicago terminal in order to interchange at Kirk Yard in Gary, Ind., is unreasonable, the Surface […]
‘Holiday Train’ delivers food, lights, and entertainment to crowds in the US and Canada
Alan Doyle and Beautiful Band perform for the crowd gathered to see them and the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train at Mechanicville, N.Y., on Nov. 26. Dan Kittay The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train rests at Mechanicville, N.Y., during a recent stop. Two trains, similarly decorated with lights and decorations, travel the Canadian Pacific network each November […]
Neighbors express concern about CP plan to expand intermodal facility NEWSWIRE
Canadian Pacific plans to use the Minneapolis land formerly occupied by its Shoreham Yard roundhouse, torn down earlier this year, to expand an intermodal facility is meeting with some local opposition. Steve Glischinski MINNEAPOLIS — Community officials have been caught off guard by Canadian Pacific plans to redevelop a portion of its Shoreham Yard facility, […]
CP SD70ACUs make first return to US NEWSWIRE
CP SD70ACU No. 7003 departs Muskego Yard in Milwaukee after making a set out on Nov. 25. Chris Guss MILWAUKEE – Canadian Pacific’s SD70ACU fleet have been primarily assigned to Canadian service since the first locomotive was released for revenue service in August. That changed this week when two locomotives worked south of the border […]
CP to build new transload facility in Montreal NEWSWIRE
MONTREAL — Canadian Pacific will build a new transload terminal in Montreal, with the first phase of the project to open in June 2020. The 118,000-square-foot facility, to be operated by Quebec-based transportation and warehousing firm TYT Group, will be served by more than 4,000 feet of existing track at CP’s Cote Saint-Luc Yard. It […]
