Canadian Pacific Kansas City - The 7th Class I Railroad

[Woke_Hoagland]

Here is one of the Trains forum threads, from 2021 when the CN offer looked like a ‘done deal’. This came up using the little ‘magnifying glass’ search tool (using CN KCS merger as the search terms). There were others.

CN is winning the bidding war. What happens to CP after CN acquired KCS?

Fairly self explainatory title. CN is winning the bidding war for KCS. They are likely to sweeten the deal even further. CN has more letters of support and a CN KCS merger is also very likely to get regulatory approval according to many analyts. This leaves the question as to what will happen to CP after the merger. CP will be left as effectively a regional railroad, about half the size of the nearest contemporary. This leaves them as a target for an opportunistic US railroad eastern or western…

Are we proposing a radical upset at the STB, and an equally radical upset in Congress to eliminate protections of the Sherman and Clayton acts on the already-overmerged North American Class Is?