Drew’s Trackside Adventures: Episode 30 – Thompson River Trek

In this extended-length episode, you’ll come to appreciate just how quickly real railroads (and Drew) can be humbled by Mother Nature! This time, Drew, Kent, and Charlie Conway forge through desert-like heat, high winds, and rugged terrain in Canada’s Thompson River Canyon. The action on Canadian Pacific and Canadian National main lines sizzles too, as […]

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Drew’s Trackside Adventures: Episode 30 – Thompson River Trek

In this extended-length episode, you’ll come to appreciate just how quickly real railroads (and Drew) can be humbled by Mother Nature! This time, Drew, Kent, and Charlie Conway forge through desert-like heat, high winds, and rugged terrain in Canada’s Thompson River Canyon. The action on Canadian Pacific and Canadian National main lines sizzles too, as […]

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Is the IHB Hunter’s real target? NEWSWIRE

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Is the Indiana Harbor Belt’s 54 miles of mainline track a key component of the proposed 33,700-mile merger of Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern? Quite possibly. The IHB, whose main line circles Chicago and could link CP lines in the Midwest with NS lines to the East and South, is an integral part of CP’s […]

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Hunter speaks NEWSWIRE

Canadian Pacific CEO E. Hunter Harrison AP If only Norfolk Southern would agree to talk more — and to Canadian Pacific. If that were to happen, Canadian Pacific CEO Hunter Harrison says he’s confident he could work out a deal to buy NS that would win over shippers and regulators. Harrison made the comments about […]

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  Canadian National SD70M-2 No. 8000 drifts under the Union Pacific’s Adams Subdivision as it comes through Sussex, Wis., on Feb. 16, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause […]

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CN begins repainting Bessemer & Lake Erie motive power NEWSWIRE

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BLE No. 902 sits in the dead line in Centralia, Ill. Joe Ferguson CENTRALIA, Illinois – Canadian National has released the first former Bessemer & Lake Erie SD40-3 from the paint shop in CN’s corporate paint scheme. B&LE No. 902 was sent to Quality Rail Services in Venice for rebuilding and repainting after being displaced […]

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