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MONTREAL — Conductors, train persons, and yard workers have ratified a new three-year labor agreement with Canadian National, two months after walking off the job for a week. On Friday, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference announced that 91.3% of their 3,000 members voted in favor of the new deal. The new contract addresses a number […]
A Canadian Pacific stack train, with a few auto racks tacked onto the front end, passes through Wauwatosa, Wis., on Jan. 28, 2020. CP reported record results in its quarterly earnings call Wednesday. TRAINS: David Lassen Canadian Pacific CEO Keith Creel TRAINS: David Lassen CALGARY, Alberta – Canadian Pacific, the lone Class I railroad to […]
MONTREAL – Canadian National’s fourth quarter earnings declined sharply due to the impact of a nine-day conductor strike in Canada and weakening freight demand, the railway reported on Tuesday. The railway’s quarterly operating income declined 16%, to $1.2 billion, as revenue dipped 6%, to $3.6 billion. Earnings per share, adjusted for the impact of one-time […]
EAST CHICAGO, Ind. — A Canadian National request to expand facilities in East Chicago is drawing fire from residents and environmental groups, who say the additional tracks will be used to store cars full of petroleum coke, a refining byproduct which can be used as fuel. The Times of Northwest Indiana reports CN said in […]
LOMBARD, Ill. – Class I railroad mergers are not the sure path to efficiency gains that they once were within the industry. So says Canadian National President and CEO JJ Ruest at the winter meeting of the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers in Lombard on Thursday. Ruest notes that as the entire industry has […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Supreme Court ruled in December that a railroad can countersue allegedly negligent employees who have already sued the railroad for injuries they received in an accident they may have caused. The court ruled that counterclaims filed by a railroad against its allegedly negligent employees are not prohibited by the Federal […]
MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway reports it has returned to normal operation, catching up on the backlog created from an eight-day strike in Canada in November. The railroad cited performance indicators showing the railroad is within normal operational ranges. The Nov. 19-27 strike by members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference reduced the railroad to […]
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan — The City of Saskatoon is proposing that Canadian Pacific and Canadian National share CN’s line south of the city, which would take CP traffic out of downtown. City director of transportation Jay Magus told the city council earlier this week that both railroads have been approached about the proposal, the Saskatoon Star […]
MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway is preparing to move some of its dispatchers from its Montreal rail traffic control center to Edmonton, Alberta. The railroad tells the Montreal Gazette that fewer than 15 people will be reassigned to Edmonton, but officials from the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference say some members have been told that the […]
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 […]
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 […]
MONTREAL — Canadian National has announced it is implementing a “recovery plan” to respond to the traffic backlog created by an eight-day strike, Canada’s longest rail work stoppage in a decade — an effort that could include bringing back some recently laid-off workers. The railroad and Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, representing conductors, train persons, and […]
