JCB4010
CP 1401 @ Brownsville, MN
Since being established in 1881, the Canadian Pacific Railway has been a vital part of the North American way of life. For 109 years, CP strictly operated in Canada with only trackage rights into the US before getting full control of the SOO LINE in 1990, accessing their own trackage into the busy rail hub of Chicago, Illinois and vise versa. Now 33 years later, they have merged with Kansas City Southern now having trackage from Canada to Mexico without leaving their own rails. The face of the Canadian Pacific that’s had many names, such as Canadian Pacific Railway, CPRAIL, CPRAIL System, and once again, Canadian Pacific. Time will tell how much they’ll change their current imagine, as they’ve already inter-graded the “CPKC” initials into their company regime around the countries. As of 23:59 of April 13th, 2023, The Canadian Pacific Railway has merged with the Kansas City Southern Railway.
With that said, looking back at simpler times of Autumn 2023 along the mighty Mississippi River, the Royal Canadian Business Train is freshly loaded with the company President / CEO Keith Cruel as they sneak through the S curve along the former DME in the small town of Brownsville, Minnesota with the beautifully painted pair of FP9As and FP9B (CP 1401/4106/1900) heading south for Kansas City for a major meeting with KCS management on the CP Marquette Sub. Taken: 10-20-23
My fanatic sense for the Canadian Pacific became when I was just 5-6 years old, ridding cross country with my family on VIA RAIL’s Canadian from Vancouver to Toronto. For as young as I was, my favorite movie at the time was Silver Streak 1976, the same current train set VIA uses today. I guess you could really say I was a kid in a candy store, ridding my favorite train from my favorite railroad, even in its new ownership. As a fan looking from the outside in, the transition with KCS will be quite a weird one, we can only hope the image of CP won’t change and KCS will be just like every other railroad that’s been merged, a thing of the past…..but not forgotten. But lets not forget that the CP some of us know and love is also changing, in my eyes for the worse but time will tell how much they change their corporate image that I’ve been a fan of for than 18 years..
CP 1401 @ Brownsville, MN
Since being established in 1881, the Canadian Pacific Railway has been a vital part of the North American way of life. For 109 years, CP strictly operated in Canada with only trackage rights into the US before getting full control of the SOO LINE in 1990, accessing their own trackage into the busy rail hub of Chicago, Illinois and vise versa. Now 33 years later, they have merged with Kansas City Southern now having trackage from Canada to Mexico without leaving their own rails. The face of the Canadian Pacific that’s had many names, such as Canadian Pacific Railway, CPRAIL, CPRAIL System, and once again, Canadian Pacific. Time will tell how much they’ll change their current imagine, as they’ve already inter-graded the “CPKC” initials into their company regime around the countries. As of 23:59 of April 13th, 2023, The Canadian Pacific Railway has merged with the Kansas City Southern Railway.
With that said, looking back at simpler times of Autumn 2023 along the mighty Mississippi River, the Royal Canadian Business Train is freshly loaded with the company President / CEO Keith Cruel as they sneak through the S curve along the former DME in the small town of Brownsville, Minnesota with the beautifully painted pair of FP9As and FP9B (CP 1401/4106/1900) heading south for Kansas City for a major meeting with KCS management on the CP Marquette Sub. Taken: 10-20-23
My fanatic sense for the Canadian Pacific became when I was just 5-6 years old, ridding cross country with my family on VIA RAIL’s Canadian from Vancouver to Toronto. For as young as I was, my favorite movie at the time was Silver Streak 1976, the same current train set VIA uses today. I guess you could really say I was a kid in a candy store, ridding my favorite train from my favorite railroad, even in its new ownership. As a fan looking from the outside in, the transition with KCS will be quite a weird one, we can only hope the image of CP won’t change and KCS will be just like every other railroad that’s been merged, a thing of the past…..but not forgotten. But lets not forget that the CP some of us know and love is also changing, in my eyes for the worse but time will tell how much they change their corporate image that I’ve been a fan of for than 18 years..