CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific’s first quarter earnings were negatively affected by harsh winter weather and derailments that curtailed volume and increased the railway’s expenses. CEO Keith Creel began the railway’s earnings call on Tuesday by remembering the three railroaders killed in the Feb. 4 derailment of a runaway grain train between the Spiral Tunnels […]
FIELD, British Columbia — Hours before a Canadian Pacific train derailed in the rugged mountains of British Columbia, killing three railroaders, the previous crew had struggled to keep the doomed grain train under control on a steep grade. On Thursday, investigators with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada provided new details about their inquiry into […]
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Canadian Pacific train tiptoes through floodwaters in Davenport, Iowa. Steve Smedley DAVENPORT, Iowa — Canadian Pacific Railway’s Davenport Subdivision is getting a reprieve from mother nature and flooding along the Mississippi River. Flooded riverfront tracks in Davenport led the railroad to raise dump several dozen car loads of ballast along the flooded track, with tampers […]
A northbound Canadian Pacific empty ethanol train passes through floodwaters of the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa, on Saturday, March 23, 2019. Steve Smedley DAVENPORT, Iowa — Canadian Pacific’s former Milwaukee Road lines in the Midwest have suffered damage from recent flooding. In Davenport on CP’s Davenport subdivision, floodwaters from the Mississippi River are over […]
CALGARY, Alberta – No one was injured when two Canadian Pacific trains collided near Calgary late last week. CBC News reports that a yard job and an intermodal train collided at Alyth Yard on Friday morning. Images of the collision show multiple rail cars derailed in the incident. Railroad officials told CBC News that the […]
CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific and Canadian National will appeal an order by the Canadian government requiring the use of handbrakes when trains stop on mountain grades, an order issued in the wake of a fatal CP accident in February. In a press release issued Friday, CP President and CEO Keith Creel said the railroad […]
A southbound CN freight passes the former Soo Line station in Waukesha, Wis., in 2012. Brian Schmidt Q How did Canadian National end up operating the former Soo Line route through Wisconsin. I thought the Soo was affiliated with Canadian Pacific. – Kirk Gobain, Dodge City, Kan. A The Soo Line acquired the Milwaukee Road […]
Canadian Pacific CEO Keith Creel Canadian Pacific MIAMI — Canadian Pacific CEO Keith Creel is cheering the industry’s embrace of the Precision Scheduled Railroad operating model touted by his mentor, the late E. Hunter Harrison. “I want them all to do it … I think it’s the right way to run the business,” Creel told […]
Canadian National power leads a westbound empty oil unit train through River Forest, Ill., on the Union Pacific on Aug. 25, 2018. TRAINS: David Lassen EDMONTON, Alberta — The government of Alberta has reached a $3.7-billion deal with Canadian National and Canadian Pacific to haul landlocked crude oil out of the province. The government will […]
FIELD, British Columbia – Railroaders from across North America are stepping up to support the families of the three men killed earlier this week when a Canadian Pacific grain train derailed in the mountains of British Columbia. A GoFundMe page has been set up to raise money for the families of conductor Dylan Paradis, engineer […]
CP maintenance workers remove ice from the walls of a Spiral Tunnel to prevent damage to passing trains. Canadian Pacific FIELD, British Columbia – This week’s fatal derailment in British Columbia that took the lives of three railroaders is not the first time tragedy has struck Canadian Pacific’s rugged Laggan Subdivision. Kicking Horse Pass, home […]
