NEW YORK — BNSF Railway, Canadian National, and Canadian Pacific Kansas City are touting interline partnerships as a way to gain new volume without having the regulatory and service-meltdown risks associated with a merger. But Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern say alliances are built on a foundation of sand, and can shift with the whims […]
CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific Kansas City has reached a tentative five-year agreement with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen for engineers on the former Soo Line in the United States. The agreement announced Thursday, Nov. 13, would cover approximately 300 engineers on the former Soo Line in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, North Dakota, and […]
CHICAGO — Big railroad mergers have often been plagued by problematic computer cutovers that lead to service meltdowns, most recently this spring when CPKC extended its system to the legacy Kansas City Southern network in the U.S. Union Pacific pledges to avoid the same fate if its proposed $85 billion acquisition of Norfolk Southern wins […]
KAMLOOPS, British Columbia — All railcars have been removed from the water and just one remains on the site as cleanup continues from the CPKC derailment on Nov. 1 that led to spill of aviation fuel on the shore of Kamloops Lake, raising concerns about some water systems supplied by the lake. In a Nov. […]
KAMLOOPS, British Columbia — Approximately 80,700 liters of aviation fuel (about 21,320 gallons) was spilled as a result of the Nov. 1 derailment of a CPKC train along Kamloops Lake, British Columbia’s Ministry of Environment and Parks says in its latest update. An official told the local news site Castanet Kamloops that the leading theory […]
CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific Kansas City today said it has reached 13 new tentative collective agreements with unions in the United States representing carmen, hostlers, laborers, clerks, and maintenance workers, as well as mechanical and engineering supervisor employees. Six tentative five-year collective agreements have been reached with the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen representing employees […]
Clean-up efforts underway following train derailment outside of Kamloops. ⬇️More below ⬇️https://t.co/HBGDaElIww — KamloopsNow (@KamloopsBCNow) November 2, 2025 KAMLOOPS, British Columbia — Work to contain a fuel spill is continuing after one locomotive and 17 cars of a CPKC freight train derailed Saturday west of Kamloops. British Columbia’s Ministry of Environment and Parks reports that […]
The newly minted CPKC Railway, a 20,000-mile system combining Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS), sent me to Kansas City in late May 2024 to capture KCS motive power before its identity vanished under the unified railroad’s new paint. Videographers Kevin Gilliam and Mike Noonkester and I spent at day chasing this CPKC […]
Eager to tie the knot, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern have asked federal regulators for a faster review of their proposed transcontinental merger, Trains has learned. The Surface Transportation Board in September proposed a roughly 390-day schedule to review the railroads’ $85 billion deal. The calendar includes wiggle room that would allow the board to […]
CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific Kansas City reported higher quarterly profits on Wednesday as volume and revenue both increased despite ongoing economic uncertainty and trade tensions in North America. “CPKC once again created profitable, sustainable growth in the third quarter, while navigating challenging macroeconomic conditions,” CEO Keith Creel said in a statement. “Through our powerful […]
CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific Kansas City has announced the schedule and artist lineup for the 2025 CPKC Holiday Train, which will see two trainsets bringing live music performances to 196 locations collects food and raises money to support community food banks across the CPKC network. The Holiday Train will launch its 2025 Canadian schedule […]
WASHINGTON — Canadian Pacific Kansas City Southern’s handling of Norfolk Southern intermodal trains on the Meridian Speedway — their joint venture shortcut linking the Southeast with Texas and the Southwest — has deteriorated to the point that some customers are shifting freight to trucks, NS claims in a letter to federal regulators. CPKC disputes this, […]
