September 2022 update! I've just posted a follow-up with updates on CN and the CP-KCS merger proposal: Watch Part 3 here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VHsGETlC2NY.html If you missed the last update on the CN-KCS and CP-KCS merger proposals, you can watch that (Part 2) here as well: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wHIk4MNZa6A.html
I’ve worked for CP and work for CN now. All I can say I feel bad for the KCS employees since CP is going to get it. CP drove me to hate my job, and it wasn’t that the job was horrible, but it seemed like the management under Harrison and Creel were deliberately doing everything they could to make the employees miserable and lower moral.
Also I want to point out that PSR is the worst swear word you can say to a railroader. Want to see one get angry, foam at the mouth, and start into a nuclear meltdown level rant, ask them about their thoughts on PSR.
That's really interesting to hear that. I work for CP and from every contractor I've worked with, they hate working for CN and much prefer CP. We also have had a fair few managers come over from CN to a lower position at CP because (from what I know, although I haven't worked for CN), CP pays more, and from everyone I've heard CP treats its employees better. Could be department specific. Were you in T&E? or? I will add, if you were in management during the early Hunter days (early-mid 2010's) then yeah I can definitely see it. It definitely was that everyone in management seemed scared for their job.
@UCKWHBlZRYUq849Kng4QxAzw worked T&E as a work equipment maintainer from 2013 till 2017 at cp. left to become a Diesel engine mechanic in mechanical at CN. Got a $4 pay increase from what I got a cp, and while far from perfect, I’ve been a lot happier since I made the move.
I'm glad CP got it. My home team. My job interview back in 1979 I filled out the application, did the little test, and handed it in. Guy doesn't even look at it, just asks if I know anyone who works here. I tell him my brother's been a Carman helper for 5 years working a crane. "Okay, car shop, tomorrow morning. 7 o'clock. Steel toed boots. Don't be fucking late." Apprenticeship, just like that. Canadian Pacific Railway built western Canada, won two world wars, and is still a profitable company after 140 years.
Met some good dudes from CP. One welding Foreman and one engineer. I myself am a CN conductor. Have to say I'm leaning towards CN but still met some good people from the otherwise. Moving the economy a box car at a time
I think CP Rail would likely be the better railroad on account if the CN is allowed to merge with the KCS it will hurt CP Rail. If that is allowed to happen that means at some point it appears CP Rail could fall from grace for not having enough customers to service leaving CN the almighty one in Canadian Railroading, that's what the surface board is trying to eliminate as which railroad is best for the customer base and economy.
The way I see it, NEITHER ONE OF THESE RAILROADS ARE FIT TO GET THE KCS! AND WHAT ABOUT THE EMPLOYEES WHO DEPEND ON THE KCS FOR EMPLOYMENT,AND KEEPING THEIR JOBS?!WHY IS THE STB EVEN ALLOWING THEM TO TAKE THE KCS!ITS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY!AND NOT ABOUT SAVING THE RAILROAD WORKERS FROM LOSING THEIR JOBS!AND THE STB SHOULD BE ABOLISHED FOR ALLOWING THESE CANADIAN LINES TO TAKE OUR RAILROADS FROM US! SHAME ON YOU, STB! YOU HAVE AKREADT ALLOWED CN TO TAKE THE ICG,EJAND E AND THE OTHER CLASS ONES THAT WERE STILL RUNNING!
Wow, who would have thought........But Cp is more logistically genious. They run two lines across the continental divide. CN only runs 1.....if you're shipping from the coast, Cp has a lot more options to get it across the snowy mountains. Up the golden beaver. It's time for Cp to rise
@@VisionsOfOdin CN/CP do directional running almost all across the country where they run on each others track so not exactly true. and even with 2 lines CN still hauls a hell of a lot more freight/intermodal
I would love too see the share holder's get a tonnage per terminal at csx from post 2017 and compare it to any before pre 17. There is a reason it is no longer published.
CP Rail is a horrible company run by foreigners like Keith Creel. Workers at CP Rail are treated like garbage. Canada should stop this merger and maintain control of its railways.
@@cowboysfan6699 I looked deeper and I sold my shares. You're right about that. They need to work on their own company instead of merging with another.
@@955redavenger Thanks for the reply Kevin. Keep researching what I said. Canada's railways need to be controlled by Canadians and the globalist scum abusing our workers need to go to prison.
Great video ! High quality information ! I watch it on Nov 5 2023, after searching info on the Christmas CP train and I discovered the final merge in april 2023. I will watch your part 2 and 3. Very good job you did.
CN voter trust denied. Which I knew would happen. Overlap merger vs end-to-end merger... Of course CP was going to get it all along. It was an opportunistic bid for CN, whereas it was a necessary bid for CP. CN could have easily won the bid if regulators were going off the old rules before 2005. New rules benefitted CP tremendously.
2:32 The Canadian Pacific Railway wasn’t the first railway established in Canada. The Champlain And Saint Lawrence Railroad was the first established railway in Canada.
@@TheSjuris I've been there many times, but now I am on the "no USA for you list" for not disclosing my status. As long as biden Harris Pelosi are in charge, I have little interest in USA
I watched this thinking this was a big huge channel with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, then I went to like it and I was like wow, this guys going places
Hang on now....was Harrison the first one to come up with and implement Precision Schedules Railroading? We have that guy to that for 3 and half mile long trains?!?!
I've always thought Grand Trunk Western & Central Vermont were Canadian National's two U.S. Subsidiaries & Soo Line is Canadian Pacific's U.S. Subsidiary.
I just hope they will rebrand for something like "Transamerica Rail" or "TransPacific Rail" or anything else that sounds better than "Canadian Pacific Kansas City"
For your information, the CN as the head office in Montreal but for all the time Harisson was CEO, this was a font. Everything was decided and done from Memphis. As of today, in 09/2023, I don't know.
I am Canadian by naturalization. Two things about the Canadian National Railroad and Canadian Pacific Railroad; Firat, Canadian National Rail is a Crown Corporation made up of bankrupt regional rail lines after approximately WW1. Canadian Pacific is a self funded corporation to start. Second, the term "Royal" is named only after a member of the UK's Royal family grants a charter as in "Royal Nova Scotia Tatoo" or "Royal Bank of Canada".
@@ace74909 "cries" my tail! CN has enough from over the years with the purchases of the Wisconsin Central, Illinois Central, Bessemer & Lake Erie, Duluth, Winnepeg & Pacific, Elgin Joliet & Eastern and Duluth Missabe and Iron Range, etc.,
Canada is a thin country. They don’t have the width let alone ports to have rail fuckups. PSR allows for higher throughput while using the same 2-3 ports and super thin ground coverage
CP in my opinion is the better of the two companies to deal with. CP has a far better track record than CN. CN has the idea they can do what ever they, and the devil take the hind seat. That is all I have to say
~ Actually, the only people who still think that the Montreal Cdns. are rivals with Toronto Maple Leafs are Toronto fans, everyone else knows that since the late sixties anyways, the rivalries are Toronto with the Detroit Red Wings and the Habs vs Boston Bruins. Just thought I'd clear that up. 😉👍🏻🇨🇦
@@Pensyfan19 I hope you guys realize the only thing Canadian about Canadian Pacific is the Canadian in the name. Owned and operated by primarily US Investors which was made evident when they voted to change the name to Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC).
I find both railroads lousy. CP has nothing but dirty ass raggedy junk GEs. CN who wasted alot of money building a new tunnel at Port Huron, MI. to Sarnia, runs hardly any more trains through it than before the tunnel was built. Neither railroad is worthy of KCS which has more class than CP and CN ever had.
Pretty hilarious cp spends 27b and cn immediately does the same thing with an even shorter route to gulf of mexico, on essentially a handshake deal. lol.
Call me a chauvinist pig, but I'd be concerned if ANY foreign-owned railroad bought an American RR. However, I am a capitalist, also. 'Splain it to me.
When this man lmplemented precision scheduled railroading,he brought the end of the class one railroads!and now ,csxand other class ones have embraced this railroad-destroying concept!as a result of this, YOU the customers are now suffering from a lack of service and efficiency in delivering goods and services!AND this psr has caused thousands of workers to lose their jobs! And he opened the door to the destruction of railroads and economical opertunities for the railroads! Also,this has led to one man operation and has raised serious concerns about safety and the ability to serve the needs of the customers and consumers! Also, these one man crews will become a major disaster for both the railroad and the safety of the public! And many problems will arise in the operation of trying to get one man to do everything! For example, what if you have one man operating a train with five locomotives, and one of these units alarm bells. Ring,and the unit has a fire, and he is coming to a grade crossing, what can one man do?he cannot leave the head end,and put out the fire!AND HE WILL be in major trouble if this happens!for there is no grunted that this won't happen!AND , lord help him if he has a derailment with tankcars carrying hazardous and extremely dangerous chemicals! ,as well as flammable liquids such as fuel , lp gas, and gasoline,and diesel fuel! All as a result of this psr!this concept has NO ACE IN THE RAILROAD INDUSTRY! THIS IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING TO EVER BE PUT IN PRACTICE ON THE RAILROADS PSR STINKS!AND SHOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED TO BE IN THE RAILROAD INDUSTRY, NOT EVER! TWO MEN CREWS ARE MORE SAFER THAN ONE MAN CREWS!AND IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG, ONE MAN CAN STAY UP FRONT,AND THE OTHER CAN GO SEE WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE LOCOMOTIVES IN THE CONSIST.AND IF A FIRE STARTS, HE CAN PUT IT OUT!
both are crapy companies, contacting them for cargo transportation is painful... simply nobody reply inquiries seem they don't care about getting new business
The problem is, people have the opportunity to come from the ground up into management and super intended positions. Awesome for people that work hard but may not necessarily have any business's sense
