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CANADA’S LUXURIOUS ROCKY MOUNTAINEER
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WELDED RAIL
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IS THERE A NEXT
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CP+NS GAME?
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MAP: WHAT’S
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Map: What’s left of the
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JIM WRINN
A S S O C I AT E E D I T O R
A S S I S TA N T E D I T O R
Why CP+NS doesn’t add up
Canadian Pacific CEO Hunter Harrison’s passion for
consolidations seems limitless. He put Canadian National,
Illinois Central, and Wisconsin Central together. He tried
and failed to merge CN and BNSF. After moving to CP he
stalked CSX. Now he wants CP to buy Norfolk Southern.
Harrison says CP+NS is more lucrative,
more efficient, and could drop NS’s operat-
ing radio into the low 60s like at CP. He also
says the two railroads as one can break the
Chicago bottleneck. In rejecting CP’s offer
twice, NS says it has its own plan to improve
its performance in the face of sagging coal
traffic and operational challenges, sans CP.
While we believe that railroad mergers
of the past have often produced robust cor-
porations that achieve more together than
they could separately, we just don’t see the
logic in CP+NS. If they overlapped or did
more business together now, it would make
sense, but they don’t. Traditional merger
fodder has been two railroads that inter-
change significant amounts of traffic. How
many carloads go from Macon, Ga., to
Banff, Alberta? Not many, I’d wager. Didn’t
CP just sell the Delaware & Hudson to NS
because it didn’t fit into CP but it did fit
into NS? From our vantage point in the
Midwest, we see crude oil trains from the
Bakken field headed eastbound to destina-
tions on NS, but not much else.
The other reason we don’t view this as a
good combination is that the cultures of the
two companies seem to be opposites. CP ap-
pears to be a cost-cutting, “me first” compa-
ny, while NS comes across as a company
that tries to serve its customers while mak-
ing long-term investments in people. We
like the customer-focused approach best.
The last time two major railroads
merged with dissimilar cultures we wit-
nessed a colossal failure and collapse in
Penn Central. We’d rather see NS on its
own, or if Harrison is just trying to insti-
gate the next round of mergers, at least go
with a fitting partner. As for Harrison,
nearing retirement in 2017, he should take a
break from pushing railroad mergers as the
best way to earn more for shareholders.
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Canadian Pacific westbound No. 281 with a Norfolk Southern unit on the point rolls through
Elm Grove, Wis., on Oct., 18, 2015. Does a CP+NS blend make sense?
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>> CORRECTIONS
May 2015:
Page 43: The volcano’s name was
incorrect. The Chimborazo volcano is
widely recognized as the mountain peak
farthest from the earth’s center.
July 2015:
Page 49: The number of the Utah
FrontRunner’s route-miles was incorrect in
the chart. The commuter railroad operates
89 route-miles.
October 2015:
Page 46: The tool was misidentified in the
caption. The Denver & Rio Grande Western
brakeman is likely holding a brake club as
he walks on the rooftops of the boxcars.
Page 48: The city was incorrect in the
caption. Baltimore & Ohio 2-8-2 No. 4443
pulls an eastbound coal train past the yard
at Lumberport, W.Va.
An eastbound Union Pacific freight crosses the Trinity River, while two light rail
trains meet at Texas’ Dallas Union Station on July 8, 2013.
Gordon Glat tenberg
JFK JUNCTION
Regarding the photo of Dallas Union Station and Dealey Plaza in downtown
Dallas, Texas, on the bottom of page 72 [“Gallery,” December], I want to add that
one of the switches in the interlocking is named JFK Junction. The switch is just off
the left edge of the photo and connects the track that the Union Pacific train is on
with the empty track converging from the right that is nearest that train.
This is at Control Point T217 located at milepost 214.5 of UP’s Dallas Subdivi-
sion (former Texas & Pacific) and also at milepost 644.1 of the DFW Subdivision
(former Rock Island). The switch is on the triple underpass directly above Elm
Street, which is the street John F. Kennedy was riding on at the time of his assassi-
nation on Nov. 22, 1963.
Jimmy Barlow, Leonard, Texas
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