Brett Reynolds, CPKC’s 2025 Railroader of the Year. (Screen Grab from CPKC Video)

CPKC Earns Supplier of the Year Award, Presents Top Railroader Honor

Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), recently designated as a General Motors (GM) 2025 Supplier of the Year, has honored Track Maintenance Foreman Brett Reynolds as its 2025 Railroader of the Year.

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CN Receives Arbitration Decision

More than seven months after the Canadian Industrial Relations Board’s (CIRB) order imposing binding arbitration between CN and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), the railroad is reporting the arbitrator’s decision regarding terms of a new collective agreement. CN

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CPKC’s Strategic Vision for Growth, Innovation and Sustainability 

CEO PERSPECTIVES, RAILWAY AGE APRIL 2025 ISSUE: Two years ago, we created the first single-line railway connecting the United States, Canada and Mexico with what I believe is the most relevant rail

CPKC, Lanco Group/Mi-Jack Sell PCRC to APM Terminals

Following 28 years of joint ownership, Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and the Lanco Group/Mi-Jack have sold the Panama Canal Railway Company (PCRC) to APM Terminals, a global terminal operator and an

41% of CPKC’s $8.9 billion revenue in 2023 was generated by cross-border traffic. (CPKC Photograph)

POTUS 47 Trade War Sparks Industry Uncertainty

IRJ Editor-in-Chief Kevin Smith assesses the impact the introduction of tariffs is having on the railway industry in North America and elsewhere.

As a result of the collision of two CPKC trains on Feb. 16, 2024, the four head-end locomotives on train 805 derailed (locomotives CP 8910, CP 8775, CP 8014, and CP 8776), one of which (CP 8775) caught fire. About 17,500 liters of diesel fuel leaked from the derailed locomotives. On train 301, four cars derailed, one of which (CP 650381) caught fire, and about 400 tons of grain spilled from the train. This schematic of the occurrence site shows the derailed rolling stock after the collision, including the derailed locomotives and their order in the train consist (Caption information and image courtesy of TSB)

TSB Releases Final Report on 2024 CPKC Collision

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) on March 31 again called for additional backup safety defenses—“i.e., physical fail-safe train controls”—in signaled territory, following its investigation of the 2024 main-track collision of two Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) trains near Greely, British Columbia.

CPKC’s Fuel Center of Excellence team (shown here with President and CEO Keith Creel, third from left) earned the railroad’s 2025 CEO Award for Excellence in the Cost Control category. (Screen Grab from CPKC video.)

Class I Briefs: CPKC, CSX/B&O Railroad Museum

Canadian Pacific Kansas City’s (CPKC) Fuel Center of Excellence team is recognized for improving fuel efficiency and driving down costs and emissions. Also, Benjamin H. Griswold, IV joins CSX President and CEO Joe Hinrichs as capital campaign Co-Chair for the B&O Railroad Museum.

NCCC, BMWED Vote to Ratify National Agreement

The National Carriers Conference Committee (NCCC) and members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division (BMWED-IBT) have voted to ratify a national collective bargaining agreement reached in January that covers approximately 8,000 railroad employees at NCCC-represented carriers, “solidifying the momentum of the current bargaining round and reinforcing the industry’s commitment to providing competitive pay and benefits.”

ASLRRA Adds Wi-Tronix to Member Discount Program, Names Recipients of 2025 Business Development Awards

The American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) adds Wi-Tronix as its newest Member Discount Program preferred provider and names Belpre Industrial Parkersburg Railroad, South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad, and Union County Industry Railroad as the winners of its 2025 Business Development Award.

Ironhorse, Kraus Partner on Gateway Rail Industrial Park

Ironhorse Resources, Inc. and Kraus Development have entered a long-term partnership as railroad developer and operator of Gateway Rail Industrial Park, 2,000-acre master-planned facility located within Kraus Development’s Gateway Industrial Park, north

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