A relief crew has just boarded Canadian Pacific Railway No. 7015, leading a deadhead business train bound for Kansas City at Marquette, Iowa, on Oct. 13, 2019. The 7015 is one of 60 SD70ACUs being rebuilt by Progress Rail in Kentucky, using the railroad’s stored SD9043MACs. Ten of the rebuilds will wear the heritage scheme. […]
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Central Maine & Quebec’s Job 1 rolls west at Magog, Quebec, with AC44CWs, Nos. 1002 and 1006, and GP38-3 No. 3812 in June 2018. Canadian Pacific has agreed to buy the short line, giving the railroad direct access to the Atlantic Ocean. Frank Jolin In 2018, Trains editors forecasted that CSX Transportation would continue spinning […]
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Canadian Pacific’s Holiday Train raised more than $1.49 million (Canadian) and collected more than 238,000 pounds of food during its 2019 tour, the railroad says. Dan Kittay CALGARY — Canadian Pacific’s Holiday train raised more than C$1.49 million and collected 238,393 pounds of food during its 21st annual tour, the railroad announced. The figures are […]
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E. Hunter Harrison Courtesy, Canadian Pacific Wildfire — in the form of Precision Scheduled Railroading — has enflamed corporate railroad headquarters from Mexico to Canada and throughout the United States. It’s hard to imagine any theory of operations and management, so long opposed by the notoriously status-quo cultures of U.S. railroads, could take root so […]
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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 […]
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Two Canadian Pacific Geeps switch several 40-foot grain boxcars at the wooden Alberta Wheat Pool elevators at Lomond, Alberta, in April 1974. Boxcars were common on western Canadian lines into the 1980s. A. J. Sutherland photo […]
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Trains editors talk about the news that’s fit to talk about for the week of Dec. 20, 2019. This week, Jim and Steve talk about how Union Pacific’s Big Boy drew more than a million visitors in 2019, the last D&H dispatcher retires from Canadian Pacific, Norfolk Southern F units have tied down in a […]
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Two of Central Maine & Quebec’s repainted GP38-2s lead the local freight eastbound at Sherbrooke, Quebec, on Sept. 24, 2018. A Canadian Pacific filing with the Surface Transportation Board has outlined the railroad’s plan for the short line once its purchase of the CM&Q is approved. Scott A. Hartley BANGOR, Maine — The Canadian Pacific […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD75M diesel locomotive. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (red-and-silver warbonnet, four road numbers); BNSF Ry. (red-and-silver warbonnet and Heritage III schemes, three numbers each); Norfolk Southern (Thoroughbred scheme, three numbers); and Progress Rail (Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe warbonnet and BNSF Ry. Heritage II patchouts, two numbers each). Prototype-specific details, […]
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Smith sits at his desk in Minneapolis. MINNEAPOLIS – Gordon “Gordy” Smith, the last active train dispatcher from the Delaware & Hudson Railway, retired Dec. 15. Smith, 69, has 50 years of railroad experience, all with D&H, which became a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific in 1991. CP operates D&H under its subsidiary Soo Line Corp., […]
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