Deal creates path for NAFTA railway

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | September 18, 2007 | Jerome R. Corsi

[Man50D]

An important acquisition announced this month by Canadian Pacific positions the railroad to be North America's first continental NAFTA super-railway, connecting Canada with Mexico through the heart of the U.S., roughly parallel to Interstate 35.

On Sept. 4, when Canadian Pacific, or CP, announced an agreement to acquire the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad, or DM&E, railroad analysts saw the move as a strategic attempt by CP to move into Wyoming's coal rich Power River Basin. In that area, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe, BNSF, and Union Pacific, UP, previously enjoyed exclusive access.

Included in the deal was the Iowa, Chicago, and Eastern Railroad, or IC&E, a sister railroad also owned by Cedar American Rail Holdings, Inc., the parent holding company of both the DM&E and the IC&E.

Largely overlooked in the deal, IC&E – independently operated from the DM&E – reaches down into Kansas City, where the DM&E shares the KnocheYard with Kansas City Southern, or KCS.

The acquisition expanded CP's 14,000-mile rail network by approximately 2,500 miles, including, through IC&E, access into the U.S. Midwest, adding to the CP markets American markets for agricultural products, ethanol and coal.

[Alberta's Child]

An important acquisition announced this month by Canadian Pacific positions the railroad to be North America's first continental NAFTA super-railway, connecting Canada with Mexico through the heart of the U.S., roughly parallel to Interstate 35.

It's amazing how thoroughly ignorant someone can be when they write articles like this about topics they don't know anything about. There has been a "NAFTA super-railway" for some years now -- and if Corsi had done some research on Canadian National Railway he would have learned this before revealing his ignornance in print.

Canadian National Railway -- Network Map:

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

The liquidation of America continues relentlessly in plain sight as a mere sideshow while we are distracted with Iraq, a dozen or so presidential wannabes and OJ. We are literally being slow-cooked, and as the Bush presidency fades the water will come to a full boil!

[Man50D]

It's amazing how thoroughly ignorant someone can be when they write articles like this about topics they don't know anything about. There has been a "NAFTA super-railway" for some years now -- and if Corsi had done some research on Canadian National Railway he would have learned this before revealing his ignornance in print.

It's amazing you can't see the forest for the trees. The Canadian National Railways only existed on a map but did not become a physical entity until the merger of those railways on September 4, 2007. If you clicked on the links you would also seen similar announcement of the mergers. If you had bothered to heed you own advice and read the article more carefully you would have avoided revealing your own ignorance.

[Alberta's Child]

I think you're getting two railroads confused . . . Canadian Pacific (CP) and Canadian National (CN).

The September 4th merger involved Canadian Pacific. Canadian National, on the other hand, has been called "the NAFTA railroad" for almost a decade -- basically since it formed its current T-shaped network configuration with the acquisition of the Illinois Central in 1998.

[Ben Ficklin]

The battle between the forces of darkness and light will continue until the second coming of Devil Reagan, who will usher in an eternal and everlasting period of Market Capitalism in which all the world’s children will have plastic jack-o-lanterns and polyester bunny rabbits brought to them by the evil railroads.

[Alberta's Child]

I think I should have been more clear about the distinction between Canadian Pacific and Canadian National in my original post about Corsi’s article. :-)

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

liquidation of America

GIVE ME A BREAK

[servantboy777]

hardy hardy har.........I just love all the experts on FR.

[Mase]

Just when you think Corsi’s drained every last drop out of the NAU, here comes the NAFTA railroad stealing our sovereignty. Who knew? Maybe we need rail cars to haul all those Ameros being printed in secret.

[Toddsterpatriot]

[Mr. Lucky]

You should probably apologize.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Never let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy. Corsi lost me when he showed his abysmal ignorance about how roads get built in this country. His railroad ignorance only compounds the error

[ckilmer]

a united stance by homos against corsi. well done.

[bmwcyle]

So open boards is not a problem? What are we worrying about? Everyone calm down. /sarcasm

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Open borders are a big problem. That doesn’t mean that railroads cannot be built through America, or that NAFTA is a bad thing.

[BfloGuy]

I hear there are also secret plans for a NAFTA sidewalk and a NAFTA bikepath. This is series.

[1rudeboy]

I thought that Corsi had Kansas City Southern pegged as the NAFTA rail-culprit after it bought that Mexican railroad operator.

[1rudeboy]

Corsi, from 2006:

Kansas City Southern, or KCS, has just completed putting together what is being called ''The NAFTA Railroad.'' On Jan. 1, 2005, KCS took control of The Texas Mexican Railway Company and the U.S. portion of the International Bridge in Laredo, Texas.

Then in April 2005, KCS purchased the controlling interests in Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana, which KCS promptly renamed the Kansas City Southern de Mexico, or KCSM.
World Net Daily.

I suppose that makes me a "homo" with a good memory.

[Man50D]

I hear there are also secret plans for a NAFTA sidewalk and a NAFTA bikepath.