Check out the 2018 Canadian Pacific Holiday Train at Milwaukee with Trains‘ Editor Jim Wrinn! You’ll see the spectacle of the train arriving under the recently rebuilt train shed and the fabulous musical performers that travel with the train thanks to special access granted to Trains by Canadian Pacific. The train has gathered 4.3 million […]
Keith Creel, Canadian Pacific CEO Canadian Pacific PALM BEACH, Fla. — Canadian Pacific will renew its locomotive fleet by continuing to rebuild stored high-horsepower AC-traction units in 2019 and 2020 before considering the purchase of new power, CEO Keith Creel says. “We’re not in the market at all for new locomotives,” Creel told an investor […]
Keith Creel, Canadian Pacific CEO Canadian Pacific NEW YORK — Class I railroad mergers are unlikely to occur in 2019, but if two of the major systems were to combine the most likely pairing would be between CSX Transportation and Canadian Pacific, a Wall Street analyst wrote in a research note this week. “We believe […]
An over-sized load trailer and a Canadian Pacific locomotive after they collided in Indiana on Wednesday. Indiana State Police news release BUTLER, Ind. — Indiana law enforcement agencies are investigating how an oversized semi load being escorted by Indiana State Police was struck by a northbound freight train at a grade crossing in Butler this […]
Canadian National power leads a westbound empty oil unit train through River Forest, Ill., on the Union Pacific on Aug. 25, 2018. CN is seeing increased crude-by-rail business. TRAINS: David Lassen TORONTO — Shipments of Canadian crude oil to the U.S. — already moving at record levels — are likely to increase further in the […]
Canadian Pacific FP9 No. 1401 leads a business train through Mechanicville, N.Y. Railroad officials were rumored to be on the train as it moved through upstate New York on Oct. 29. Dan Kittay ALBANY, N.Y. — Observers are speculating on the purpose behind a Canadian Pacific special train that made its way through New York […]
The CP Holiday Train passes through Pleasant Prairie, Wis., on Dec. 2, 2017. TRAINS: David Lassen CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific has announced the 2018 schedule for the CP Holiday Train, which will mark the 20th year the train will collect food and raise funds for food banks across the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. […]
Canadian Pacific CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific has developed a high-tech solution to a problem that has long bedeviled railroads: The feast or famine volume swings in intermodal traffic over the course of a week. Like most railroads, CP saw a flood of intermodal traffic arrive at its terminals Wednesday through Friday, with much lower […]
Canadian Pacific CEO Keith Creel Canadian Pacific CALGARY, Alberta — The spread of Precision Scheduled Railroading to more than half of the Class I railroad systems will make it easier for railroads to merge, Canadian Pacific CEO Keith Creel says. Creel was asked whether the advance of E. Hunter Harrison’s operating model — used at […]
Indiana & Ohio SD40-2 No. 4083 handles the first test car to Jeffersonville, Ohio, on July 26, 2018. The train is crossing the Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern main line at Sugar Street in Lima, Ohio, the same line that brought the car to the city. Zach Marlow LIMA, Ohio – Canadian Pacific and Genesee […]
Canadian Pacific website Union Pacific via Twitter CHICAGO — You could be whistling “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” all the way to bank if you hire out with a Class I railroad that’s having a hard time finding new employees. As the job market tightens and rail traffic climbs, Union Pacific and BNSF Railway […]
ALBERTVILLE, Ala. — Progress Rail, a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc. today announced it has been chosen by Canadian Pacific to supply an order of 30 upgraded EMD SD70ACU locomotives — otherwise known as modernized versions of SD90MAC models. Once fully re-manufactured these freight locomotives will primarily serve in heavy haul applications. “Our customers […]
