March 31, 2020 | CN, CP, Headlines
(Source: American Journal of Transportation, March 30, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — From an investors’ perspective, North American railroads have had a pretty good run over the last thirty years. After decades of being characterized as inefficient, unprofitable and slow...
March 31, 2020 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Teamsters Canada press release, March 30, 2020) MONTREAL — The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) is taking issue with CN’s seeming lack of concern for its transportation workers. Union officials are being overwhelmed with complaints from their members...
March 30, 2020 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Radio station CKRM, March 27, 2020) REGINA, Sask. — CN Rail says grain movement is flowing smoothly this month after serious disruptions this winter. Full story: www.620ckrm.com
March 19, 2020 | CN, Headlines, Legislation
(Source: Freight Waves, March 18, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Chicago-area Democrat U.S. Representative Dan Lipinski introduced four bills last week that deal with issues such as blocked highway-rail grade crossings and train noise. The bills were introduced prior to...
March 11, 2020 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, March 10, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Canadian grain producers anticipate industrywide costs of the recent rail blockades will total roughly C$300 million overall by the time network capacity returns to normal later this year. The costs come...
March 10, 2020 | CN, Headlines, VIA Rail
(Source: Global News, March 10, 2020) TORONTO — Via Rail estimated that more than 90 per cent of trains on the transcontinental Canadian route were late in 2017, and about 70 per cent were late in the following year. By 2019, Via Rail was warning passengers who booked...
March 6, 2020 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Montreal Gazette, March 5, 2020) MONTREAL — In the end it wasn’t force that drove them from the tracks; not a military raid or convoy of police cruisers sent to smash through the Mohawk lines. Full story: Montreal Gazette
March 6, 2020 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: CBC News, March 5, 2020) MONTREAL — The remaining blockades halting rail traffic in Quebec were taken down Thursday, putting an end to three weeks of protest in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs in British Columbia. Full story:...
March 5, 2020 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Globe and Mail, March 3, 2020) TORONTO — The blockades have been a response to RCMP arrests on Wet’suwet’en territory in northern B.C., where protesters have been trying to stop the Coastal GasLink pipeline. But for many Indigenous demonstrators from...
March 4, 2020 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Financial Post, March 4, 2020) OTTAWA — Canadian National Railway will take a significant financial hit from the rail blockades that choked train traffic in Eastern Canada for most of February, but chief executive JJ Ruest is “cautiously optimistic” the...
