Supervisors in Scott County, Iowa, plan to pen a letter opposing the merger of two North American rail companies that’s expected to drastically increase train traffic along the Mississippi River there.

The Surface Transportation Board’s Office of Environmental Analysis determined the only potential adverse impacts of Canadian Pacific’s proposed merger with Kansas City Southern would be train noise, according to the STB’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement released Aug. 5.

Three of the five members of the Federal Maritime Commission are urging the Surface Transportation Board to reject Canadian Pacific Railway’s plan to merge with the smaller, but strategically significant Kansas City Southern Railroad.

Canadian Pacific Railway said it will resume normal operations after it agreed to work with an arbitrator on a contract for 3,000 workers, ending a two-day work stoppage.

DETROIT — Canadian Teamsters and CP Rail blamed each other for a work stoppage March 20 that brought trains to a halt across Canada and interrupted fertilizer and other shipments to and from the U.S.

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. has issued a 72-hour notice to the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference of plans to lock out employees early March 20 if the union’s leadership and the company fail to negotiate a settlement or agree to binding arbitration.

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. is gearing up to halt operations after failing to reach a labor deal with unionized workers.

As it undertakes a $30 billion merger, Kansas City Southern released its fourth-quarter and full-year 2021 financial report on Jan. 28.

Severe winter weather along part of its network and increased costs with the proposed merger of Canadian Pacific Railway with Kansas City Southern impacted fourth-quarter financial results.

Canadian Pacific’s $31 billion plan to acquire Kansas City Southern cleared one of its final hurdles Dec. 8 when CP shareholders overwhelmingly approved the deal that would create the first railroad connecting the United States, Canada and Mexico.