Posted 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
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.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
“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.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years ago by bevans
Agreement in principle still needs legal issues sorted before repairs to tracks damaged by flooding last year
Posted 3 years 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.
Posted 3 years 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 3 years 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.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
Derailed containers near Rosser, ManitobaLate in the afternoon of May 29, 2018, around 4:45 PM I think, an eastbound Canadian Pacific Railway train derailed between Rosser and Winnipeg, Manitoba. About 13 double-stacked container platforms were blown over by strong winds.
Posted 3 years 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 Limited 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.
Posted 3 years ago by bevans
Union members representing Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd's (CP) conductors and locomotive engineers have served a notice to go on strike as early as May 29, according to a union statement released on Saturday.
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
CN is buying new 55-foot, 8-inch jumbo hopper cars with 5,431 cubic feet of capacity. Deliveries will occur over the next two years. CN’s 12,000-car Western Canadian grain fleet is comprised of CN-owned hoppers, leased cars and private customer equipment. The new hopper cars will allow the phase out of older, lower-capacity cars from the CN-owned and leased fleet, which has an average age of more than 30 years.
“This substantial investment in higher-capacity-payload hopper cars, with up to 10% more capacity than the older generation, demonstrates our commitment to safely, efficiently and reliably moving the steadily increasing Prairie grain crop for our customers,” said CN Interim President and CEO JJ Ruest. “We clearly understand how important having an effective grain supply chain is to our nation’s reputation as a stable trade partner. With this week’s news of regulatory certainty, we can now make decisive long-term investments that will benefit the entire grain industry.”
Posted 3 years ago by Railpage System User
iChurchill halted talks on a potential deal which would also have included the Port of Churchill and associated assets, citing the government of Canada’s “unwillingness to engage in meaningful dialogue.”
Posted 3 years ago by bevans
Northeastern Ontario Rail Network holding "Rally for Rail" town halls
Posted 3 years ago by bevans
Churchill accuses the federal government of not taking its bid seriously and of focusing on a competing bid that includes many of the communities in the region
Posted 3 years ago by bevans
Canadian National Railway is preparing to purchase hundreds of new grain hopper cars to get shipments moving after a bill that encourages railways to make investments to avert service disruptions became law Wednesday.
Posted 3 years ago by newsbot
Ownership limits in Canadian airlines and the country’s biggest railway are set to rise in coming days, with the wrangling over a controversial transport law poised to come to an end.
Posted 3 years ago by newsbot
Manitoba and Canada appear out-manoeuvred by American-based Omnitrax
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