January 9, 2019 | CN, Headlines, UP
(Source: Bloomberg, January 8, 2019) NEW YORK — Union Pacific Corp. surged the most since 2009 after hiring a protege of railroading legend Hunter Harrison to guide the company’s shift to a new efficiency strategy. Shares rose 9.4 percent to $151.67 at 10:25 a.m. in...
January 9, 2019 | CN, Headlines, UP
(Source: Supply Chain Dive, January 8, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Union Pacific said Monday it would bring Jim Vena, a former executive vice president and chief operating officer at Canadian National (CN), out of retirement to become the railroad’s new COO as of...
January 7, 2019 | CN, CP, Headlines
(Source: Canadian Press, January 4, 2019) OTTAWA — Canada’s two major railways are well-positioned to weather potential economic headwinds and the U.S.-China trade war, analysts say, as ongoing investments in new cars and track bolster crude-by-rail and...
January 3, 2019 | CN, CP, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Railroading, January 2, 2019) CN and Canadian Pacific exceeded their maximum grain revenue entitlements for crop-year 2017-18, the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) ruled on Monday. Full story: Progressive Railroading
December 28, 2018 | CN, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: CN press release, December 21, 2018) HOMEWOOD, Ill. — CN said today it has met all Dec. 31, 2018 milestones in its positive train control (PTC) implementation plan and applied on November 7 for a two-year extension to complete deployment and interoperability....
December 28, 2018 | CN, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, December 27, 2018) CALGARY — Canadian National Railway Co. says it is planning to build a pilot plant worth up to $50 million next year to create pucks made of oilsands bitumen to transport by rail and ships to customers around the world. Full...
December 17, 2018 | CN, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Canadian National Railway press release, December 14, 2018) MONTREAL — CN announced today that a new tentative collective agreement has been reached between Unifor Local 100 and CN. Unifor represents approximately 2,100 locomotive and freight-car mechanics,...
December 14, 2018 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Chicago Tribune, December 14, 2018) CHICAGO — The Indiana Department of Transportation will spend nearly $45 million to improve railroad crossing safety in five Northwest Indiana municipalities, Gov. Eric Holcomb announced Thursday. Full story: Chicago...
December 6, 2018 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Financial Post, December 6, 2018) OTTAWA — Canadian National Railway Co. has put in a preliminary offer to buy the largest shipping terminal in Eastern Canada, in a bid to capture some of New York’s container business. Full story: Financial...
December 6, 2018 | CN, Headlines
(Source: CBC News, December 5, 2018) OTTAWA — The 33-year-old CN employee who died in a workplace accident at an Edmundston rail yard Tuesday has been identified as Pierre-Luc “Sune” Levesque. According to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, the...
