Posted 2 hours ago by bevans
The company that owns a broken rail line into Churchill, Man., says it is appealing a federal regulatory ruling that requires it to repair the track.
Posted 5 hours ago by Railpage System User
Canadian National Railway Company (CN) is set to invest C$210m ($160m) this year to expand and bolster rail infrastructure in the Quebec province.
The investment forms a part of 2018’s C$3.4bn capital programme, which aims to refurbish, upgrade and maintain rail infrastructure across the country.
Posted 2 days ago by bevans
If Ottawa is serious about re-establishing the Port of Churchill as a viable export route for prairie grain, it should focus its regulatory efforts on re-opening the Tisdale subdivision in northeastern Saskatchewan.
Posted 2 days ago by bevans
The freight train is now on track to stretch up to 3 miles long, with 200 cars or more. And it’s being powered, in part, by an unusual energy source: the activist investor.
Companies have plenty of reasons to keep adding train cars. Long trains save on fuel and crews, reducing the cost of rail transportation.
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
The investments are part of CN’s record $2.6 billion capital program in 2018 and will focus on the replacement, upgrade and maintenance of key track infrastructure.
The Class I plans to install close to 40 miles of rail, 155,000 crossties, rebuild more than 35 grade-crossing surfaces, as well as perform maintenance on culverts, signal systems and other track infrastructure.
Posted 4 days ago by Railpage System User
“The biggest news that will create headwinds for CBR in the short term is that Canadian basis for heavy [crude] tightened last week,” PFL said.
Posted 5 days ago by bevans
A deal has been reached to restart the Churchill rail line – and the City of Flin Flon has played a role.
After a year of ill-fated deals, an agreement in principle to purchase the railway was made on May 30.
Posted 6 days ago by bevans
Canadian National Railway Co. will spend $320 million this year to build new railway lines in Alberta and upgrade existing infrastructure with significant work expected to take place around Edmonton, the company said Tuesday.
Posted 6 days ago by bevans
One of the country’s foremost railway companies will have to ensure cars can use a bridge in Thunder Bay, Ont., under terms of an agreement signed more than a century ago, Ontario’s top court ruled on Monday.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
Interim CEO Jean-Jacques Ruest told a recent investor conference the projects are meant to address stronger-than-anticipated traffic growth that occurred in 2017, as well as projected growth through 2019’s second quarter. Next year, the capacity expansion will continue, to prepare the railroad to handle projected 2020 levels.
Posted one week ago by bevans
OPP are continuing to investigate the death of a pedestrian killed by a Via Rail passenger train in Ingersoll on Friday.
Posted one week ago by bevans
A group of high-speed rail enthusiasts in Washington state has opened a chapter north of the border, hoping Canadians and Americans working together to lobby governments can make their dream a reality.
Posted one week ago by bevans
Canadian National Railway said on Friday it would invest about C$130 million ($99.85 million) in Manitoba province to improve and expand its rail network.
Posted one week ago by bevans
A section of Highway 2A was shut down south of Red Deer on Friday evening after a train derailment in the area.
A CP train heading south derailed shortly before 5 p.m. near McKenzie Road.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
Cruise holiday company Carnival Corp has agreed to acquire the White Pass & Yukon Route railway, port and retail operations from Canadian golf club company TWC Enterprises Ltd for US$290m.
Posted one week ago by Railpage System User
Over the next four years, CP plans to order approximately 5,900 hopper cars, completely replacing all its older, low-capacity hoppers, including all Government of Canada cars. The investment is made possible by changes to the Maximum Revenue Entitlement formula through the Canadian government’s passage of the Transportation Modernization Act, C-49, which provided CP “the certainty needed to place the order,” the railroad said. “CP will be the first Class I railway to receive hoppers as a result of the Act’s changes.”
The new car design is shorter (56 feet vs. 59 feet, about 5%) and lighter, but with 15% greater cubic volume and 10% greater load weight (102 tonnes vs. 93 tonnes), than the cars being retired from CP’s fleet. These cars, of 5,431-cubic-foot capacity, feature a three-pocket design that can be loaded and unloaded more efficiently than the old four-pocket government cars. Shorter frames enable more cars in a train of the same length. The cars “will feature newly manufactured components that are more reliable, significantly reducing maintenance-related delays,” CP said.
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The first of 200 diesel locomotives which are to be supplied to CN under a multi-year purchase agreement has been completed at GE Transportation’s plant at Fort Worth in Texas.
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The builder was awarded the contract at the end of 2017. GE said that this is the largest order placed by any Class 1 railway in North America since 2014.
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“The Northgate Terminal is one of only 12 certified sites in North America that have been accepted into the BNSF industrial site certification program,” said Robert Day, President and Chief Executive at Ceres Global Ag Corp., headquartered in Minneapolis.
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The contract, which runs through Dec. 31, 2019, provides wage and benefit improvements in each year of the agreement, in line with the national railway pattern, CN said.
“This renewed collective bargaining agreement once more demonstrates CN’s desire and commitment to work together with our employees and their representatives, in this case, the BLET, to address workplace issues, in a respectful and mutually beneficial manner,” said Mike Cory, CN executive vice president and chief operating officer. “CN is very pleased to have renewed the collective agreement with the locomotive engineers who work on the Illinois Central, which ensures uninterrupted service to our customers and the overall North American economy.”
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
Agreement in principle has been reached for the transfer of ownership of the Hudson Bay Railway and the reinstatement services to Churchill in northern Manitoba by winter 2018, the federal government announced on May 30.
Posted 2 weeks ago by bevans
VIA Rail Canada has cancelled all trains on the South Western corridor between London and Windsor for the next 24 hours.
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference-Train & Engine (TCRC) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) on Monday issued notice to Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. advising of their respective plans to strike at 10 p.m. ET on Tuesday, May 29. The TCRC and the IBEW provided more than the necessary 72-hour notice after voting last week to reject the Class 1’s final contract offers. In both cases, the parties gave more than the required 72-hour notice.
IBEW System Council No. 11 reached a tentative three-year deal late May 29 that “ensures that [360] IBEW employees remain on the job and passenger operations are not impacted, ” CP said.
Posted 2 weeks ago by bevans
Agreement in principle still needs legal issues sorted before repairs to tracks damaged by flooding last year
Posted 2 weeks ago by Railpage System User
I offer this report from the CBC:
“VIA Rail Canada’s Canadian is notorious for delays. But a trip this week from Toronto to Vancouver is proving to be spectacularly late, even by VIA standards. As of Thursday (May 24) afternoon, the westbound Canadian was some 45 hours behind schedule, after leaving Toronto 26 hours late. While VIA has apologized to the passengers, it also said it will not be offering any compensation for those whose plans are disrupted by the schedule. Out-of-town passengers were provided hotel rooms and meals for the day-long delay in departure.
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