Have any of you trainfans noticed that CN has bought so much track that they extend to the Gulf of Mexico. CN seems to have interest in the resources we have here in the US. CN might just make it in South America in some time. Tell me what you think about CN Mergers to the Gulf Coast. [?]
CN (Chicago Northern) is really just one American railway buying up yet more American and Canadian railways. Nothing more, nothing less. Signal Mechanic. Signal Department. Former ‘Canadian National Railways’.[:(][V]
Seeing as they have just got hold of BC Rail to head up north , they must have designs on joining up with the Alaska RR , then it would be from north to south !!
Exactly, you’ll be able to go from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico nearly exclusively on CN trackage.
Talk about a North/South connection.
Ultimately, I wouldn’t be totally surprised to see two major railroads left in the US!
CN and CP.
CP. Chicago Pacific?[:(][V]
Go easy on CP, at least they don’t mind being Canadian unlike CN…
It’s nice to be able to call them “Canadian Pacific” and not worry about getting repremanded by the management.
And their beautiful golden beaver logo makes me pround that they are happy to be who they are, and not trying to get away from it, unlike CN. [tdn]
They took over the Wisconson Central.[V]
I’m mad too about how the Canadian National took over the Wisconsin Central. That was my favorite railroad! [:(!]
Didn’t they buy the Missabe just to get a 2 mile connection track? Any more transactions like that and CN may edge out UP as the most vilified RR.
As far as I’m concerned CN outbid UP when they sent out the memo saying they no longer want any of their employees to refer to CN as Canadian or Canadian National, just CN.
At least UP is pround of their country.
I want to know if the CN & BNSF will still talk “merger” talk’s?
BNSFfan.
Norfolk Southern National? [^]
Good gosh yes!! Just look at the network map
I’m pretty sure the competition guys said NO WAY to that a few years back, and the talks pretty much died out…
CN wanted BNSF, then CP said they would hook up with UP.
It all fell apart after that.
Interesting that the Ontario Northland takeover by CN never happened. the Canadian regulatory agency shot them down because everyone was sure that many workers in Ontario would lose their jobs…I wonder what gave them that idea? Pity the poor guys at the DM&IR they will soon find out for themselves how brutal the CN is. Buy stock in the KCS, it can’t possibly last too long inthe land of giants.
C N makes me want to Cuss a Blue Streak.
I live in Northern Wisconsin and am affected by the buyout of the Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Railroad.
They are canceling 22 craft positions in the Proctor MN. yards.
Of the 30 jobs left they are transfering them to the Twin Shitties or Wisconsin Rapids.
The word up here is they wanted 17 miles of track outside Babbit MN. …
So for 17 miles of track you buy the Railroad, the US Steel Great Lakes Fleet and a couple of captive shortlines in Ohio.
It don`t make a whole lot of sence .
Maybee Chicago Pacific is not too far off the mark.
It cinda makes me wounder.,Sometimes.
'Scuse me? Canada-US trade balance is the other way 'round - the US imports Canadian resources (we were their second-largest supplier of crude oil in 2002). Meanwhile, we import US manufactured goods. We sell more than we buy, because they outnumber us ten to one.
I don’t see a surprise in CN integrating more US roads. US investors bought most of CN nearly a decade ago, and the majority of its business is cross-border, so further integration was inevitable, as was “Americanisation” at the top executive level. “Y’gotta dance with the one what brung ya”, after all. Integration has been going on for a century or longer, but it’s more overt recently because of evolving regulatory environments.
Like it or not, it was bound to happen. Change is the only constant.
True - but they also banned the names “Chicago Central & Pacific”, “Wisconsin Central”, and “Illinois Central” (to name a few), many of which had much more history than “Canadian National” did. The privatization legislation didn’t specify a retention of the name - if they really wanted to exterminate the Canadian part of the corporate identity, they’d rename it Illinois Central…[:O)]
All CN did was settle on a name that matched their logo more closly, for easier brand recognition - just like Industrial Business Machine and American Telegraph and Telephone did. The full name isn’t dead, - in fact, the index page of CN’s website (which, by the way, is a .ca domain) includes “Canadian National” in the title bar.