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Railways accused of trying to swamp West Coast, Thunder Bay

The WGEA says it can handle 11,000 cars a week, but in all shipping corridors

By Allan Dawson March 25, 2014

Faced with meeting performance targets, Canada’s railways are now flooding the West Coast and Thunder Bay terminals with grain, the Western Grain Elevators Association says. Western grain elevator companies can handle the 11,000 cars a week the federal government has ordered the railways to move, but some of those cars need to go to the

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Push comes to shove for grain trains

The federal government is promising a legislated fix to ensure railway performance

By Allan Dawson March 15, 2014

Now that the federal government has given the two national railways four weeks to get grain shipments up to speed or face daily fines of up to $100,000, all eyes are on what happens next. The government has promised it will table legislation to improve rail service for grain after the parliamentary break this month.

Crops

CN Rail, union reach quick deal after government threat

The federal government was preparing to stop a strike before it happened

By Susan Taylor February 13, 2014

Canadian National Railway Co. reached a deal Feb. 5 to avert a strike by conductors and yard workers after the Conservative government said it would use back-to-work legislation to keep the country’s biggest railway operating. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference gave notice earlier in the day that it intended to strike as soon as Feb.

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says Canada’s railways are doing an “adequate” job moving this year’s record crop to market. The Western Grain Elevators Association says it’s not good enough and farm groups agree. photo: allan dawson

Crops

Ritz rates current rail service for grain ‘adequate’

By Allan Dawson November 20, 2013

Canada’s railways are doing an “adequate” job moving this year’s record crop to market, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz told an industry conference last week. “The increase in volume means the logistics system must fire on all cylinders to ensure farmers’ products are making it to market on time. To date our system is proving effective

Cereals, News

Railways mum on how producer car orders are allocated when total car demand exceeds supply

By Allan Dawson November 14, 2013

Railways mum on how producer car orders are allocated when total car demand exceeds supply When rail car orders exceed the supply how do the railways decide how many cars are set aside to fill producer car versus grain company orders? Only the railways know for sure and last week they were not answering the

Cereals, News

Producer car shippers bypass plugged elevators

By Allan Dawson November 14, 2013

A12-car train jerks to a steady rhythm every few seconds as part-time engineer Travis Long ever so slowly “stretches” the newly connected cars, while a roaring hum fills the locomotive’s cab. It’s the satisfying sound of grain moving to market via producer cars on the Boundary Trail Railway Company’s (BTRC) short line — 23 miles

Crops, News

Shippers suggest amendments to beef up Fair Rail Freight Service Act

By Allan Dawson March 28, 2013

The worst rail service in three years prompted shippers to propose amendments to toughen Bill C-52, the Fair Rail Freight Service Act, to help balance their relationship with the railways, says Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA). “Service is very poor on both railroads,” he said in an interview March

Crops, News

CN and CP to spend $3 billion on upgrades and buying new equipment

By Alex Binkley March 7, 2013

CN and CP will spend $3 billion this year on new locomotives and freight cars and to upgrade their rail networks. “Infrastructure investments, the acquisition of new locomotives and equipment, and the enhancement of information technology systems will help support our agenda of operational and service excellence,” said Claude Mongeau, president and CEO of CN,

Crops, News

CN and CP announce new senior officers

By Alex Binkley February 28, 2013

A couple of familiar figures have moved into high-ranking, top executive positions at CP and CN. Keith Creel has left his role as CN’s executive vice-president and chief operating officer to become CP’s president and chief operating officer. “Keith joins CP after a very successful operating career where he rose from a management trainee in

Cereals, Crops, News

Railway revenues rekindle costing review calls

By Allan Dawson January 4, 2013

Canada’s two major railways once again tipped over the statutory cap revenues for shipping grain during the 2011-12 crop year — costing farmers an extra two cents per tonne. “It underscores again the need for a costing review to parallel the (rail) service review,” Bladworth Sask., farmer and agricultural economist Ian McCreary said in an

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Tag Archives Rail transportation in the United States — page 2

Railways accused of trying to swamp West Coast, Thunder Bay

Push comes to shove for grain trains

CN Rail, union reach quick deal after government threat

Ritz rates current rail service for grain ‘adequate’

Railways mum on how producer car orders are allocated when total car demand exceeds supply

Producer car shippers bypass plugged elevators

Shippers suggest amendments to beef up Fair Rail Freight Service Act

CN and CP to spend $3 billion on upgrades and buying new equipment

CN and CP announce new senior officers

Railway revenues rekindle costing review calls

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