October 26, 2022 | BNSF, CP, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, KCS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 25, 2022) Union Pacific has taken issue with a video that Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern showed federal regulators of a KCS grain train “breezing through Houston.” UP says the video painted an incomplete picture that...
October 26, 2022 | CN, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 24, 2022) Canadian National has asked federal regulators to condition the approval of the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger on the granting of trackage rights over the KCS line linking Springfield, Ill., with Kansas City...
October 18, 2022 | CN, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 17, 2022) Canadian National is challenging some conclusions federal regulators reached in their draft environmental review of the proposed Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger. Full story: Trains Magazine
October 18, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, October 5, 2022) The public hearing before the Surface Transportation Board on the proposed merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern consisted of three days of testimony spanning over 25 hours on why or why not the merger should...
October 18, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Freight Waves, October 17, 2022) How much responsibility should Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern bear to keep international gateways open and keep the rail networks through Chicago and Houston fluid? That question was one of five themes explored...
October 5, 2022 | CP, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, KCS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 4, 2022) Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern will make their closing arguments for their merger on Thursday, the sixth and final day of Surface Transportation Board hearings on the first Class I railroad combination in two...
October 5, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Chicago Sun-Times, October 4, 2022) A merger between two large freight railroad companies could potentially spell disaster for the Chicago area if allowed to go through unchecked, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., warned on Tuesday. Full story: Chicago...
October 4, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, CSX, Headlines, NS, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 3, 2022) Surface Transportation Board members appear skeptical about CSX Transportation’s bid to force its way on to the Kansas City Southern-Norfolk Southern Meridian Speedway. The Meridian Speedway — which runs from Meridian, Miss.,...
October 3, 2022 | BNSF, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, September 30, 2022) Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern executives say there’s plenty of capacity in Houston to handle the eight additional trains per day they’ll run through the busy terminal within three years after their merger. Full...
October 3, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, September 30, 2022) The three-day Surface Transportation Board hearing on the proposed Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger has ballooned to a six-day hearing. The board will hold mostly virtual hearings on Monday and Tuesday, Oct....
