Posted on 09/18/2007 3:43:13 AM PDT by 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.
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No one, and I mean no one, understood that at the time NAFTA was signed it would involve the transportation of goods.
LOL!
This is not new.
Just because someone calls it a “NAFTA Railroad” does not make it part of a conspiracy to force the union of the US, Canada, and Mexico against the wishes of their inhabitants.
Up against the wall, globalist! LOL
Please see comment #23. Who was our President in 1880, and was he CFR?
Rutherford Hayes was the 30th level Mason who started the CFR.
Canadian Pacific and Canadian National may be domiciled in Canada, but for all intents and purposes they may as well be "American" railroads. Most of the shares in both companies are owned by individual and institutional investors in the United States.
Bump
Baloney. In fact, I would make the case from the standpoint of the U.S., NAFTA was specifically aimed at two products whose transportation is an integral part of their production and consumption -- oil and natural gas.
you sound like a turtle bay sodomite. most nyc juice literally goes down the drain.
I suppose that makes me a “homo” with a good memory.
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probably you guys know corsi socially. that’s the only reason I can figure that the same bunch of you faggot up on corsi every time someone posts his stuff — when corsi doesn’t say anything more than dozens of other reporters whose work is posted at fr.
Bull. Your boyfriend is fair game.
I always meant to ask about the “vital body fluids” reference. Is it from Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
Dr Strangelove.
Ah. Believe it or not, I’ve never seen more than snippets of that movie.
Intermodal rail freight density
Bull. Your boyfriend is fair game.
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sounds like I was right about you and your friends.
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