January 18, 2023 | Canada, CP, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Unifor press release, January 13, 2023) VANCOUVER, B.C. — Unifor Local 101R has reached a tentative agreement with Canadian Pacific Railway (CP), covering 1,200 workers at 18 locations from British Columbia to Quebec. “These are hard working members who...
January 18, 2023 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Railway Age, January 17, 2023) Nearly a decade after the horrific derailment of a crude oil unit train at Lac-Mégantic, Quebec that claimed 47 lives and led to new regulations for railroad hazmat tank cars, Canada Minister of Transport Omar Alghabra on Jan....
January 5, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Canada, Headlines, Mexico, PSR
(Source: Railway Age, January 4, 2022) Total U.S. carload traffic for the first 12 months of 2022 was down 0.3% from the same period last year; and intermodal units were down 4.9%; the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Jan. 4. For the week ending Dec....
January 5, 2023 | Canada, CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Canadian National press release, January 3, 2023) MONTREAL — CN announced that on December 23, 2022, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) ratified a new collective agreement. The agreement covers approximately 160 rail traffic controllers in Canada....
November 4, 2022 | 2-man Crews, Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Railway Track & Structures, November 3, 2022) More than nine years after the horrific derailment of a crude oil unit train at Lac-Mégantic, Quebec that claimed 47 lives and led to new regulations for railroad hazmat tank cars, the Government of Canada...
November 3, 2022 | Canada, CN, CP, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, November 3, 2022) Canadian National set a single-month record for movement of Western Canadian grain in October, the company said, moving more than 3.23 million metric tons. Canadian Pacific also set a grain-movement record for the month, the...
November 3, 2022 | Canada, Headlines, VIA Rail
(Source: Railway Age, November 1, 2022) Transport Canada confirmed Oct. 31 that state corporation VIA Rail Canada has been shunted aside from its own project to construct and operate an electrified “High Frequency Rail” (HFR) service along the Corridor linking Quebec...
October 31, 2022 | Canada, Headlines, Railroad Safety
(Source: Railway Age, October 27, 2022) The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) on Oct. 26 released its Watchlist 2022, putting a “spotlight on key safety issues and actions needed to make Canada’s transportation system even safer.” Full story: Railway...
October 5, 2022 | Canada, CN, CP, Headlines, PSR, Shippers
(Source: Bloomberg, October 4, 2022) The world sorely needs more grains, and Canada has a bin-busting harvest this year. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough rail cars to transport it all. There were almost 2,400 outstanding grain-car orders for the nation’s two major...
September 6, 2022 | Canada, Headlines, Transport Canada
(Source: Progressive Railroading, September 2, 2022) Transport Canada this week announced the next phase of the High Frequency Rail project, which will explore options to increase the frequency of passenger-rail service, improve on-time performance and shorten travel...
