Canadian Pacific

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CPKC: ‘Exceptional Execution in Challenging Market’

In reporting fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results on Jan. 28, Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) President and CEO Keith Creel said, “Despite macroeconomic and trade policy headwinds in 2025, our Precision Scheduled Railroading model again enabled us to control costs and deliver a record core adjusted operating ratio while capitalizing on our unique growth opportunities.”

CABR Presses On (Updated January 21, 2026)

Liricon Capital Ltd. and Plenary Americas, a portfolio company of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), in July 2022 advanced Phase 4, design, of the C$2.6 billion Calgary Airport –

The graphic shows the map of the route for the future bypass at Lac-Mégantic, which will go through the municipalities of Nantes, Lac-Mégantic, and Frontenac. The blue line shows the chosen route; the red line shows the route of the existing track which will be dismantled following the commissioning of the bypass; and the green line shows the sector of the Lac-Mégantic industrial park where car triage and storage activities will take place. (Map and caption courtesy of the government of Canada)

Lac-Mégantic Rail Bypass Project Advances

More than 12 years after the crude oil train wreck at Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, that claimed 47 lives and led to new tank car regulations in Canada and the U.S., the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) has now received the official application to build a 7.75-mile (12.5-km) rail bypass around the village. According to the government of Canada, this allows the project to move into the assessment phase.

CPKC on Oct. 11 officially opened its new Operations Center at Knoche Yard in Kansas City, Mo. (pictured). CPKC President and CEO Keith Creel and Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas were among those attending a special ribbon-cutting ceremony. (Screen Grab from CPKC Video)

Class I Briefs: CPKC, CSX, NS

Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) celebrates the opening of its new U.S. Operations Center. Also, CSX releases video highlights of its 33rd annual short line conference; and Norfolk Southern (NS) donates another $400,000 to the American Red Cross for relief efforts following Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

CPKC Stadium opened March 16 for the KC Current, the professional women’s soccer team in Kansas City, Mo. (Screen Grab Courtesy of CPKC via LinkedIn video post)

Now Open: CPKC Stadium, Home of KC Current

One of the first stadiums purpose-built for a women’s professional sports team opened March 16 under the banner of Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), which last fall reported signing a 10-year naming rights agreement with the National Women’s Soccer League’s (NWSL) Kansas City (KC) Current.

STB Strikes Down CN’s Chicago Interchange Proposal

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has for the second time found that CN-subsidiary Wisconsin Central, Ltd.’s proposal “to unilaterally designate” the Belt Railway of Chicago’s (BRC) Clearing Yard as the location where it will receive traffic in interchange from Canadian Pacific Kansas City-subsidiary Soo Line Railroad Company “is not consistent with the reasonableness requirement of 49 U.S.C. § 10742.”