A baggageman loads express and LCL aboard a combine on a mixed train on the Canadian Pacific (Quebec Central) at Vallee Junction, Quebec, in May 1959. Jim Shaughnessy photo […]
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Canadian Pacific’s Ohio move explained NEWSWIRE
A simple map showing Canadian Pacific’s new service to Ohio. Canadian Pacific CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific is extending the reach of its international intermodal service into the Ohio Valley through a partnership with a pair of Genesee & Wyoming regional railroads. The Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern Railroad and the Indiana & Ohio Railway […]
Smartening the average bear NEWSWIRE
A bear along the Canadian Pacific main line in Banff National Park. Niels de Nijs BANFF, Alberta — Canadian Pacific, Parks Canada and a group of university researchers have teamed up to try and reduce the number of grizzly bear deaths along the railroad’s main line through Banff and Yoho National Parks. Now, after five […]
Missed stop signal caused collision, derailment between two CP trains in Toronto NEWSWIRE
This TSB photo shows a pair of Canadian Pacific locomotives derailed near an interlocking in Toronto after colliding with an eastbound intermodal train. Transportation Safety Board of Canada RICHMOND HILL, Ontario — Investigators with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada have determined an August 2016 collision between two Canadian Pacific freight trains occurred when one […]
CP heritage fleet headlines Canada 150 Train this summer NEWSWIRE
CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific is running a commemorative Canada 150 train this summer that will tour much of the railroad’s Canadian system in recognition of the country’s 150th birthday. The special train left railroad headquarters in Calgary this week and is headed to Port Moody, British Columbia, for its first event on Friday, July […]
CP begins painting ‘Beaver’ logo on locomotives NEWSWIRE
Close-up of No. 9835’s new simplified logo at Relco. Bradley J. Grefe Canadian Pacific AC4400CW No. 9835 sits outside Relco’s Albia, Iowa, shop. Bradley J. Grefe ALBIA, Iowa — Canadian Pacific has reintroduced its heritage logo to the side of its locomotives. Earlier this month, AC400CWs Nos. 9835 and 8639 were released from the paint […]
CP moves historic 4-4-0 to Calgary headquarters NEWSWIRE
CALGARY — Canadian Pacific moved an historic 4-4-0 locomotive over the weekend from downtown Calgary to its corporate headquarters on the southeast edge of the city. Locomotive No. 29 had been on display outside its corporate headquarters at Gulf Canada Square in downtown Calgary since the 1990s. In 2012, the railroad moved its offices out […]
CP and CSX discuss smoothing Chicago interchange NEWSWIRE
CP CEO Keith Creel Canadian Pacific NEW YORK — Canadian Pacific and CSX Transportation are discussing a joint marketing and operating agreement that would, among other things, create run-through trains to bypass choke points in Chicago. “We’ve had some discussions with CSX operationally as well as commercially,” CP CEO Keith Creel told an investor conference […]
Canadian Pacific, Canadian retail company unveil 60-foot intermodal container
CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific and retail giant Canadian Tire Corp., recently debuted North America’s first 60-foot intermodal container, according to a CP news release. The 60-foot container, which was developed by the Canadian Tire team in partnership with the railroad, provides an additional seven feet from the current 53-foot container standard. It will allow […]
Drew’s Trackside Adventures: Episode 35 – Navigating Northern Ontario
Host Drew Halverson, along with pals Mike, Charlie, and KJ, conclude their Great Lakes gallop, chasing Canadian Pacific Rwy. trains along Northern Ontario’s picturesque Lake Superior shoreline. Though less harried than other routes, the action on CP’s Heron Bay and Nipigon Subdivisions between Thunder Bay and Marathon, Ontario, keeps Drew and The Crew hopping and […]
Drew’s Trackside Adventures: Episode 35 – Navigating Northern Ontario
Host Drew Halverson, along with pals Mike, Charlie, and KJ, conclude their Great Lakes gallop, chasing Canadian Pacific Rwy. trains along Northern Ontario’s picturesque Lake Superior shoreline. Though less harried than other routes, the action on CP’s Heron Bay and Nipigon Subdivisions between Thunder Bay and Marathon, Ontario, keeps Drew and The Crew hopping and […]
CN, CP retiring more full-bodied, cowl units NEWSWIRE
Canadian National SD60F No. 5542 as seen at Stillwell, Ind., in 2009 is among the list of cowl units now retired or set to be scrapped. Greg Mross CHICAGO — The ranks of operating cowl locomotives on class I railroads is thinning once again, as Canadian National and Canadian Pacific purge additional locomotives from their […]
