7 June 2005

CP Railway completes first stage of capacity expansion project

The following article is excerpted from the 7 June 2005 edition of “American Shipper”.

Canadian Pacific Railway … has completed an 8,500-foot track at its Coquitlam yard near Vancouver for trains of Canadian bulk commodities destined for ships calling at the port of Vancouver….

The new track marks the completion of the first of 25 projects under a C$160 million … program to increase train capacity on the CPR's network between the Prairies and the port of Vancouver.

CPR said that almost all of the 25 capacity expansion projects are now under way. All the projects are expected to be complete by the fourth quarter, when CPR said it will be able to run an additional four trains daily -- or more than 400 freight cars a day -- representing a 12 percent increase in capacity between the Prairies and the port of Vancouver.