Eastern Railroad Discussion > Expressway Success

From the Trains April 9th news wire:

"Canadian Pacific gets big customer for Expressway service
Canadian Pacific’s Expressway intermodal service got a major boost
today when retailer Hudson’s Bay Co. announced it would gobble up
25 percent of the Expressway’s capacity between Montreal and
Toronto."

That's 60 trailers per day off the highway and onto the rail thanks to CP/Expressway.

"CP built an Expressway terminal near Hudson Bay's eastern
distribution center at Scarborough, Ontario, after the retailer
approached the railway for help in reducing the number of trailers it
hauls on Highway 401, the busiest route in Canada. The terminal
opened in February."

They firgured it out! Put the transfer facility close to the customers and use the more liberal union work rules now in place vis a vis the rules in place when the current "hub and spoke" intermodal systems were developed.

Way to go CP!

Full story on the newswire at www.trainsmag.com

I hope CP can find more customers for the Toronto-Detroit Expressway as well. Two or four trailers each way isn't enough...

Scott

Well, if CP could finally negociate an agreement with Amtrak, perhaps the corridor will get extended to Chicago as well; this could bring the volumes up, Chicago is a fairly bigger market than Detroit!

JF

brantstn wrote:
>
> I hope CP can find more customers for the Toronto-Detroit
> Expressway as well. Two or four trailers each way isn't enough...
>
> Scott

Where ya see no trailers....actually you mainly see reserved space "paid for none the less" Where the trailers did not make it in time. So there is a reason to run, its paid for..........since it is scheduled, it runs, regardless.

thats not much at all... about an hours worth of traffic on any major highway, if not less