Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway moved more than 30 million tonnes of Prairie grain since the summer. Read more
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“Every kernel that’s harvested this year is going to want to move,” CN chief executive Tracy Robinson told the Bank of America’s transportation conference on May 17. “We need to be ready for that.”Article content Then, a washout in southern British Colombia severed CN’s main line to the Port of Vancouver for a week and in October, a bridge burned down and cut off rail access to a major growing region in northern Alberta. Plus, persistent autumn rain in Vancouver forced dozens of trains to wait on tracks or at grain elevators, since ports in British Columbia seldom load grain in bad weather.Article content
“You can’t build a church for Easter Sunday,” Creel said, quoting the pioneering rail executive Hunter Harrison. “We can’t do something that’s so unhealthy for the company to satisfy one customer’s 10-year or 100-year harvest.”The backlogs this fall helped force a national reckoning on the state of the supply chain, to the point that industry leaders were calling on the government to break CN and CP’s stranglehold on the rail system.
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