You should know that the city of Bettendorf, IA has already settled with CPRS and neighboring Quad City Davenport is expected to tomorrow. Never has there been a combination of two railroads that SHOULD have been merged YEARS ago made such sense for shippers, employees and communities as well. This combination is about GROWTH and will ultimately make both properties infinitely stronger and will go a long way in reducing harmful emissions by attracting new traffic in lanes between Canada, the US and Mexico that currently moves by truck or other rail carriers. This combination is not about reducing headcount. It's about making the two smallest Class I carriers stronger - together - against giants BNSF and UP.
Some of the info you have is not necessarily revealed..it requires context...loss of RR jobs was a result of loss of RR freight to trucking from mid 70's to 2000 approx.: then as trucking became economically unfeasible and rail freight was on the increase, Congress degreed that RR workers that had 30 years of service and were 60 years old could retire at full benefit, this would give RR's the ability to bring on younger workers; but it backfired when RR's agreed, and they expected to lose 10% over a period of time, not 30% plus almost immediately. This spawned a great hiring need, but the loss and continuation of RR new expansion was partly to blame for the loss of a lot of workers. Then the class 1 RR's- most of the RR's consolidated through the 80's and early 90's and the 6 then 7 major RR's CN,CP,NS,CSX,BNSF,UP,KCS have carved out their niche in providing Rail freight transit. The local communities derive tax revenue every time a train travels through that community. I can understand the fear people have with increased rail traffic, however, this merger between CP and KCS doesn't necessarily increase traffic, and in fact might make dwell time in local rail yards less as trains from either end of the new corridor can travel through rather than stopping and being "sorted" (thats a kind of saying coupling and decoupling). If you are arguing, that mergers will lose workers, then look at transportation as a whole. Sometimes mergers are a good thing. those workers pay taxes, and those workers also pay RRB as does the RR's- its a whole different ball game than SSA. And the local community can get a benefit if they follow the path to do so.
You should know that the city of Bettendorf, IA has already settled with CPRS and neighboring Quad City Davenport is expected to tomorrow. Never has there been a combination of two railroads that SHOULD have been merged YEARS ago made such sense for shippers, employees and communities as well. This combination is about GROWTH and will ultimately make both properties infinitely stronger and will go a long way in reducing harmful emissions by attracting new traffic in lanes between Canada, the US and Mexico that currently moves by truck or other rail carriers. This combination is not about reducing headcount. It's about making the two smallest Class I carriers stronger - together - against giants BNSF and UP.
Some of the info you have is not necessarily revealed..it requires context...loss of RR jobs was a result of loss of RR freight to trucking from mid 70's to 2000 approx.: then as trucking became economically unfeasible and rail freight was on the increase, Congress degreed that RR workers that had 30 years of service and were 60 years old could retire at full benefit, this would give RR's the ability to bring on younger workers; but it backfired when RR's agreed, and they expected to lose 10% over a period of time, not 30% plus almost immediately. This spawned a great hiring need, but the loss and continuation of RR new expansion was partly to blame for the loss of a lot of workers. Then the class 1 RR's- most of the RR's consolidated through the 80's and early 90's and the 6 then 7 major RR's CN,CP,NS,CSX,BNSF,UP,KCS have carved out their niche in providing Rail freight transit. The local communities derive tax revenue every time a train travels through that community. I can understand the fear people have with increased rail traffic, however, this merger between CP and KCS doesn't necessarily increase traffic, and in fact might make dwell time in local rail yards less as trains from either end of the new corridor can travel through rather than stopping and being "sorted" (thats a kind of saying coupling and decoupling). If you are arguing, that mergers will lose workers, then look at transportation as a whole. Sometimes mergers are a good thing. those workers pay taxes, and those workers also pay RRB as does the RR's- its a whole different ball game than SSA. And the local community can get a benefit if they follow the path to do so.
can you put a link to a petition site so we can sign petitions
and links to Congress sites
bill