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For Canadian Pacific, work remains to reduce congestion
As I understand it then, all the problems are caused by the BRC, right??? Nothing has to do with Harrison.
There’s that “black” magic word, “congestion.”
I went there, experienced that.
Houston, East Texas, Louisiana,…1978 and 1979…meltdown.
Stipulate and postulate:
First, at a particular traffic level, your RR can handle the business with style and grace…just enough crews, track, and siding capacity, enough motive power…
More business (car loads and empties) different business…Blindsided?
Trains too long for most of the sidings, double-over, triple-over trains in or out of your yards, crews “staging” or flatly being held out of crew change or terminating stations.
They die…on the law…they hog out…
The amount of time-on-duty inspires, "Lay-me-off’ to the crew dispatcher.
With that and trains now needing 2 or 3 crews ‘cause they’ve died short of the terminal…crew shortages…management says it is labor conspiring…excessive lay-offs…by personnel working every hour of every day year-around, except for their vacation, which management can cancel…
Postulate: refuse the traffic, the freight, the rancher’s, farmer’ crops, whatever stresses you capability.
“If CP’s management techniques were applied to another railroad, “we’d get some pretty powerful numbers.”
This should rather read:
“If CP’s management techniques were applied to another railroad, we’d get total gridlock, power shortage, crew shortage, rising accident rates, low employee morale, high management turnover with ever-fleeing talent, customer riots, declining traffic levels, and, at last, strong, hurtful regulation that would seriously hinder the whole industry’s future.”
It will take years for CN to undo the long-term harm that has been done by this arrogant robber baron.
Issues with the BRC only involves merchandise trains yet the CP is having issues with all their trains thru Chicago. To be fair, pretty much all the railroads are having the same problems.
Yup, vintage EHH…rape the railroad and screw the customer for quick profits and flashy results, then everyone elses fault when the problems start. Take your big bonus amd go buy more horsies while the people you fired starve. Robber baron is too kind of name for this ego maniac…
That what CP wants you to believe it’s the BRC, it’s just Hunters piss poor management. The CP is in bad shape right now due to this Hunter attitude of everything with nothing. He is a worthless CEO. People are leaving CP at a rapid rate cause how.the railroad is being ran and people treated.
CP owns half of the Indiana Harbor Belt.Use that to connect with CSX and NS who also own the IHB.OR maybe we should let CP and CSX merge.Then Michael Ward can run both railroads and we can banish EHH to the Phantom Zone or wherever he deserves to go.
The capacity improvements on the former Soo and Milwaukee Raod are much needed. I’ve watched trains meet in track warrant territory in western Minnesota. Lets just say there was ample time to set up my shot. Using cash generated from the sale of DME to invest in core routes just makes good business sense. It’s too bad EHH is so incredibly arrogant and disrespectful towards his employees and peers. Pointing a finger at the BRC for his problems is a low blow, and it might be easier to address those staffing concerns if the current staff was treated with respect.
It appears that most people have figured out EHH!
Running longer trains is probably a good idea. Lengthening sidings to accommodate those longer trains is definitely a good idea. Running the longer trains BEFORE you lengthen the sidings is a DUMB idea. And like Mr. Hainsworth said, CP is the largest single owner of IHB. Why don’t they use it more??? Instead, even unit oil trains between CP and NS use BRC when IHB would be faster and easier. Yes, IHB charges more, but CP and NS own it anyway, so the profit comes back to them!
I predict that EHH will retire to Ocala FL. the" Horse Capitol of the World" ! Great place to live.
Francis X Carlin, you hit it RIGHT ON THE HEAD!
Mark me off…oh wait, I’m retireing. Never mind.
All BRC’s fault eh? Hmm…Funny how that affects them all the way into western Canada…