Are High-Speed Freight Trains in Our Future?
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Are High-Speed Freight Trains in Our Future?

ByJim Loomis

Some interesting ideas were recently presented by Hunter Harrison, president and CEO of Canadian National Railway, who laid out his view of the future of freight rail in a speech to the Canada Maritime Conference. First of all, Harrison predicts that multiple mergers will create two mega railroads in place of today’s “Big Six”: Union…

All together now: OOOPS!

All together now: OOOPS!

ByJim Loomis

As I have mentioned in earlier posts, recent flooding in many areas of the midwest caused a lot of inconvenience to the freight railroads as well as to Amtrak. On June 16th, because the normal route was under water, the Canadian Pacific rerouted a doublestack* freight train through the tunnel connecting Detroit, Michigan, with Windsor,…