The Saskatchewan government is providing $530-thousand in funding to help short line railway companies upgrade track and other infrastructure. Other upgrades would include expansion, improved crossing surfaces and sightlines, bridge maintenance, and track rehabilitations The province says in a news release “grants are determined based on how much track each short line owns.” For example, […]
A grain movement analyst says January was a month of ups and downs in grain shipping by rail. Milt Poirier with QGI Consulting says grain movement was poor at Christmas, saw some recovery in early January, but fell far behind later in the month. Poirier says rail car order fulfillment at the end of January […]
Prairie grain movement to port has slowed down in recent weeks, due to ongoing rain delaying unloads at the Port of Vancouver. The worst conditions were in late October and the first couple of weeks of November, with some improvement in recent days. David Prezednowek with CN Rail says deliveries in shipping Week 12 […]
CN Rail says it set a new weekly grain movement record earlier this month. CN says grain shipments for the week of October 16th reached 806 thousand tons, exceeding the previous record by over 50 thousand metric tons. The record follows CN’s second best September ever for grain movement from Western Canada, with over 2.64 […]
Traffic is moving again, after what is being called a minor train derailment at Elphinstone and Saskatchewan Drive. It slowed the surging road and foot traffic making its way to Mosaic Stadium for the Labour Day Classic. Canadian Pacific Rail has not yet commented. The problem was cleared in about an hour, once again allowing […]
Canadian National Railway Co. says it has gone the extra mile to meet union demands amid a strike by signal and electrical workers, who say the concessions do not go far enough. About 750 CN employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers walked off the job across the country Saturday morning. In an […]
The latest figures show continued disappointing results with prairie grain movement by rail this winter. Milt Poirier with QGI Consulting says CN Rail has supplied less than half the hopper cars ordered by grain companies in the past 8 weeks, and CP Rail is not much better. He says CP Rail has supplied less than […]
Prairie grain companies are disappointed with rail grain movement this winter. The executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association, Wade Sobkowich, says the most recent week saw CN Rail supply only 45 percent of hopper car demand, and CP Rail supply 48 percent. In earlier weeks, he says it was even less. Sobkowich […]
Exporters of grain, potash and other commodities are concerned about how long it will take to reopen the main rail-lines in BC. Pulse Canada President Greg Cherewyk says there have been several mudslides and washouts affecting both CN Rail and CP Rail. He adds repairs will be challenging and neither railway is estimating when […]
CN Rail reports it moved a record 2.28 million tonnes of grain last month, which brings the crop year total to 19.7 million tonnes. That is also 17 percent higher than the previous record set in the 2018-19 crop year. While those numbers are impressive, the Ag Transport Coalition says they don’t tell the […]
