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A shifting load led to this 2018 Canadian Pacific derailment in Quebec, according to a Transportation Safety Board of Canada report. Transportation Safety Board of Canada DORVAL, Quebec — A shifting load caused a 21 cars of a 95-car Canadian Pacific train to derail in Quebec in July 2018, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada […]
REGINA, Saskatchewan — Canadian Pacific workers are cleaning up after a train hauling crude oil derailed and caught fire on Monday. In a Tuesday statement, a railroad representative confirmed that 34 cars of a train derailed early on Jan. 9. Transportation Safety Board of Canada investigators are expected to look into to the incident, according […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
