DENVER — Shortline holding company OmniTRAX has promoted Sergio Sabatini to president and named Gord Anutooshkin as chief operating officer, the company has announced. Sabatini, who had been chief operating officer, was with Canadian Pacific Railway for 18 years before joining OmniTRAX in 2013. Anutooshkin, who also came to OmniTRAX from Canadian Pacific, was previously […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP40-2 diesel locomotive. Boston & Maine (as-delivered scheme in two road numbers, all blue and black repaint in one number), Canadian Pacific (non-standard simplified repaint in one number, with gold beaver herald and red-and-white frame stripe in two numbers), Norfolk Southern (black and white, three numbers), Southern Pacific (scarlet and […]
Analysts expect fourth quarter earnings to fall at four of the six publicly traded Class I railroads as cost cutting, rate increases, and share buybacks were not enough to offset the impact of traffic declines. On average, earnings per share at the six publicly traded railroads will fall by 1%, according to consensus estimates by […]
HO scale freight cars General American 20,000-gallon general service tank car. Alaska RR (five road numbers [two single cars and one three-pack]), Emery (white with GATX reporting marks in four numbers), GATX (black with Clean, Oil, Test & Stencil panels and Automatic Car Identification tag; black with “Service Driven” logo; and white), and Reagent Chemical […]
CORONADO, Calif. — Canadian Pacific CEO Keith Creel spoke for nearly an hour Monday as the keynote speaker at the NRC Conference. In addition to his remarks on mergers and Precision Scheduled Railroading, he also touched on a number of other topics. — Creel said that while railroading might eventually see significant savings through adoption […]
LECLAIRE, Iowa – Canadian Pacific has reopened its main line to Kansas City, Mo., following a derailment in LeClaire. However, cleanup at the scene is ongoing Monday. Spokesman Andy Cummings tells Trains News Wire that the railroad overnight on Jan. 3 after once all track repairs and safety inspections were complete. “CP is talking directly […]
Canadian Pacific CEO Keith Creel speaks during the National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association Conference on Monday, Jan. 6. TRAINS: David Lassen CORONADO, Calif. — Consolidation of the rail industry is “inevitable,” Canadian Pacific CEO Keith Creel says, but the industry-wide embrace of Precision Scheduled Railroading has likely pushed the merger process from a five-year window […]
Davenport Industrial Railroad serves the Davenport Transload Facility in Davenport, Iowa John Howell Davenport Industrial Railroad, a 2.8-mile short line that connects the main line of the Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern Railroad, a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Railway, near Davenport, Iowa, with the city-owned Davenport Transload Facility, began operations on Jan. 1, 2020. The city […]
Surface Transportation Board Vice Chairman Patrick Fuchs (left) speaks as STB Commissioner Marthy Oberman listens during a Sunday discussion fo STB activities at the NRC Conference in Coronado, Calif. TRAINS: David Lassen CORONADO, Calif. — Two-thirds of the members of the Surface Transportation Board were on hand for a discussion of the agency’s activities on […]
Canadian Pacific was the only Class I railroad to show volume growth in 2019. CP eked out 0.9% growth in total traffic, well above the industry average of a 3% decline in total volume measured by carloads and intermodal units, according to a Trains News Wire review of the railroads’ weekly carload reports. CP also […]
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 […]
Rapido Trains HO Gunderson Husky-Stack The well has sockets for pins for one long or two short containers. Rapido Trains has released an HO scale Gunderson 53-foot Husky-Stack well car, with etched-metal running boards, new trucks, and factory-installed grab irons. The die-cast metal cars are accurately finished and include two individually numbered 53-foot containers. In […]
