with already conjested rail lines between memphis missisippi and arkansas the major players have had to team up and often share lines to meet deadlines. csx, bnsf,u.p., ns, and now cn with its new hub just around the corner here in memphis. traffic on some lines gets u a train to watch every 15 minuetes which is good for us train watchers. the cn is also half way through a new multi milliondollar expansion on a freight yard there seconed in the area, along with a media blitz for more jobs and even going to schools with model trains to teach kids safety. the cn is fitting in good down here with the bigger boys!
I saw two CN locomotives powering a CSX train on 2-3-07 in Dalton, Ga.
Is CN becoming the Canadian UP? LOL Going everywhere…
Don’t you consider CN to be one of the “bigger boys”?
CN’s Canadian conductors are about set to go on strike Feb. 9th in Hunter doesn’t drop his proposed new mandates for us.
no, i think they are close, because when i think of the big railroads. i dont quite put them in the mix. i think because theyve dominated canada but there not as big as ns, and they have the range of bnsf or u.p or csx. i think there like kcs in a way working two continates and expanding at fast rates but they both have that in common, kcs an cn have in the last 25 yrs started too become become big players. there not established or have the man power or money to do what the big boys like bnsf can do with widining entire mainlines when they feel the need to.
Interesting perspective. So how do you rate who is “big” and who isn’t? Number of miles of track? Amount of ton/miles hauled per year? Gross revenue? Yearly profits? Do you think CN will ever become “established” in the rail business?
Didnt that small Canadian railway CN try to buy BNSF a few years ago.
CN is a player it could eat the big boys if the STB would aprove.
they are big in all aspects but they dont dominate as far as revenue and there working on it but havent monopolized the u.s yet
Merge. I agree they could.
They don’t need to widen any line, they manage their capacity better than the others. And they do have the money, they made over $2 billion in profit last year, the only railroad to do it. Isn’t CEO Hunter Harrison from Memphis ?
I’m curious what “dominate as far as revenue” and “monopolized the u.s yet” mean?
Do the big railroads already do that?