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Farmers, elevator operators and oilseed processors all say there is still room for improvement in pending transportation legislation.
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Farmers, grain companies deliver consistent message on rail legislation

They told the transport committee C-49 is an improvement but more needs to be done

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Pending transportation legislation has hit the target — but it’s not a bull’s-eye. That was the message from western Canadian grain farmers, elevator companies and oilseed processors last week, when they spoke to the House of Commons transport committee on Bill C-49, the Transportation Modernization Act. They told legislators that there was still room for
Loading a producer car at the Boundary Group Inc. facility at Darlingford, Man., on the short line owned and operated by the Boundary Trail Railway Company. CP Rail is closing 17 producer car loading sites across the West, including two in Manitoba — Foxwarren and Strathclair.
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CP Rail closing 17 producer car loading sites across the West

KAP is considering joining APAS’s call for a moratorium, 
at least until new rail legislation becomes law

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CP Rail is pulling the plug on producer car loading sites throughout the Prairies, including two in Manitoba at Foxwarren and Strathclair. That move has the Keystone Agricultural Producers considering joining a call for a moratorium on closing sidings used to load producer cars that was first proposed by the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan
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CN Rail set grain-shipping records September to April

Longer manifest trains and increased rail and shipper efficiency are paying off, CN says

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[Updated: June 8, 2017] It’s been a record-breaking year for grain movement on CN Rail during the 2016-17 crop year, even with a slow start in August. “Once we hit September it was full blast,” David Przednowek, CN’s director of grain marketing, said in an interview May 17. “Each individual month from September all the
Some 100 years after it was constructed and 80 years after it was abandoned, the Bergen Cut-Off rail bridge remains spanning the Red River. The photo shows clearly the swing portion of the bridge which has been left in the open position so as to allow vessels on the river to move through. However, it has been a number of years since any vessels big enough to warrant the bridge being open have operated in this area of the Red River. Given it has been probably decades since the bridge saw any maintenance, 
it appears to be in good condition and is a tribute to the contractors who built the structure.
Country Crossroads

The Bergen Cut-Off

A long-abandoned rail bridge is one of the few remaining artifacts of a forgotten grain line

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While crossing over the Kildonan Settlers Bridge in Winnipeg, if you look south, you catch a glimpse of a disused railway swing bridge perched on its pier in the middle of the Red River. At this point, many readers will be thinking, “My sainted aunt! Writing an article about an abandoned bridge in Winnipeg! How
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Early reviews positive for grain transportation bill

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Long-awaited amendments to the Canada Transportation Act that Prairie grain farmers and shippers hope will result in better rail service were tabled Tuesday in the House of Commons. At press time Tuesday farm organization and grain company officials were still assessing Bill C-49, which also deals with other transportation issues, including air travel. At first
Railway in fog
Comment, Crops

False premises don’t help rail discussion

The real solution will involve commercial partnerships, not central planning by government

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Gord Gilmour’s recent editorial (‘Playing with trains,’ February 16, 2017) makes some valid points related to Canada’s grain supply chain. We agree that canola crush has been good for farmers, and the supply chain has been resilient this winter. Unfortunately, Gilmour also perpetuates unhelpful fallacies, and he advocates policies that would hinder the performance of
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Playing with trains

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With spring just around the corner, it’s becoming clear a big wreck in grain shipping is unlikely this winter. Despite a 76-million-tonne crop to move, big blizzards and those infamous periods of frigid winter temperatures, the system has held together. Mark Hemmes of grain monitor firm Quorum said in a recent article in the Co-operator
An Alberta farmer says plenty of grain is moving through Western Canada — but too much of it is U.S. grain.
Cereals, News

Is U.S. grain eating up Canadian rail capacity?

Not according to CP Rail, which on average moves two trains of American grain through Western Canada daily

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An Alberta farmer alleges Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) isn’t moving Canadian grain in a timely way because it’s preoccupied shipping American grain through Western Canada — an allegation CP denies. The Carstairs-area farmer asked not to be identified fearing it might reveal his source. The farmer said according to his source every day CP brings

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