Canadian Pacific Restructuring?

Some friends who work for CP feel Harrison is deferring maintenance so as to enhance  profits and share value. This may not end well........but CN, under his direction, did. We'll have to wait and see!

Maybe there are enough unit trains to where you do not have that many loose cars.

Could CP bypass the "old" CP by using its ex-SOO/MILK routes into the US?

Which humpyard are they leaving open?? I go by CP's former Milwaukee Road hump in St.Paul MN every work day, and looks like it's still working.

East of Toronto, daytime trains used to be all but non-existent.  Now there are far more trains including lots and lots of black tankers.  A fair share of the maintenance seems to be contracted out now.  Fewer and fewer CP roadrailers.  Fewer hump yards may be a sign of times with container trains and unit trains.

St Paul is the only CP hump yard left.  I have always wondered why intermodal trains aren't humped and sorted.  What if one train were to carry the loads for different terminus.

Every time a railcar is classified at a hump yard, it adds an average 48 hours to the transit time.  Intermodal traffic is all about speed and the shortest possible transit time relative to the cost. 

I'll note that years ago, some piggyback traffic was humped and damaged lading and equipment was generally the result.

Curt

I can't imagine an intermodal car, especially a double stacked one being humped successfully. I can just see it now, there would be containers all over the place. They do setouts and pick ups.

I think intermodal traffic generally runs from an intermodal yard at city A to an intermodal yard at city B, though I suppose there could be situations where some switching would be done.