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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 […]
Keith Creel, Canadian Pacific CEO Canadian Pacific CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific CEO Keith Creel is excited about his railway’s return to Eastern Canada with its $130 million acquisition of the 481-mile Central Maine & Quebec Railway. CP sold off its routes east of Montreal, including what became the CM&Q and J.D. Irving short lines […]
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 […]
FIELD, British Columbia — Nearly a year after a runaway grain train derailed in the mountains of British Columbia, killing three Canadian Pacific railroaders, questions remain about what led to the tragedy. On Feb. 4, 2019, a westbound grain train near the Alberta-British Columbia border began to roll down Kicking Horse Pass shortly after a […]
VIA Rail Canada’s train from Churchill, Manitoba, to Winnipeg derailed on Tuesday, injuring five people on board. Manitoba RCMP, via Twitter KATRIME, Manitoba — VIA Rail Canada’s remote-service train from Churchill, Man., derailed Tuesday morning near Winnipeg, sending two passengers and three crew members to the hospital. Train No. 692 derailed at 6:44 a.m. at […]
Canadian Pacific has completed its acquisition of the Central Maine & Quebec as of Dec. 30. Scott A. Hartley BANGOR, Maine — Canadian Pacific Railway has announced it completed acquisition of the Central Maine & Quebec Railway on Dec. 30. While the regional railroad is now owned by the CP, the deal still needs to be […]
ROGERS PASS, British Columbia — A Canadian Pacific train derailed after being struck by an avalanche over the weekend. At 8:30 p.m. on Dec. 21, a CP intermodal train was struck by an avalanche on Rogers Pass in British Columbia’s Glacier National Park. Seven cars derailed in the incident and no one was injured, spokeswoman […]
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 […]
HAMILTON, Ontario — The Ontario provincial government has cancelled C$1 billion in funding for a proposed light rail project in Hamilton, a decision that Hamilton mayor Fred Eisenberger called “a betrayal” of his city. Monday’s decision came on an afternoon the CBC called “chaotic,” as a press conference to announce the move was cancelled in […]
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 […]
Canadian grain hoppers move through the Columbia Gorge in Oregon on Union Pacific in June 2018. In the wake of the recent Canadian National Railway strike, grain farmers in Canada want rail deliveries declared an essential service, which would bar employee strikes. TRAINS: David Lassen CALGARY — Nearly three weeks after a strike against Canadian […]
A shifting load led to this 2018 Canadian Pacific derailment in Quebec, according to a Transportation Safety Board of Canada report. Transportation Safety Board of Canada DORVAL, Quebec — A shifting load caused a 21 cars of a 95-car Canadian Pacific train to derail in Quebec in July 2018, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada […]
