TrinityRail: 1,000 Grain Hoppers for CN
TrinityRail: 1,000 Grain Hoppers for CN
Written by
Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
CN largely attributes its continued ability to deliver record grain volumes to its long-term investment strategy, which includes adding new high-capacity hoppers. It ordered 1,000 this month and 1,500 in July 2020.
CN reported May 7 it will purchase 1,000 high-capacity hopper cars from TrinityRail, a move that follows 14 consecutive months of record grain hauls as demand continues to grow in Canada and abroad.
Such lighter, shorter, high-capacity cars enable the movement of more grain with less equipment.
The TrinityRail “cars will be manufactured in Mexico and will help move more grain across the CN rail network, which continues to make CN the embodiment of a true USMCA railroad,” CN President and CEO JJ Ruest said. “In addition to our superior proposal to combine with KCS [Kansas City Southern], this is a step further in our vision of seamlessly connecting ports and rails in the United States, Mexico and Canada, and of providing superior service, enhanced competition and new market access to move goods across North America efficiently and safely.”