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Volume 25   Number 4

May 1995


CPRS Expands in Northeast
Ian La Couvee

Meeting in New England:  Locomotives of three partners in the new Green Mountain Gateway Service come together in Bellows Falls, Vermont.
Bellows Falls, Vermont - CP Rail System continues to expand its presence in the northeast United States with yet another railway partnership to add to a growing list of interline agreements it has struck over the last two years.
 
The latest agreement brings CPRS together with four New England-based shortline railways serving a wide range of industries, and stretches south from Vermont to gateways in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
 
Under the new interline partnership, billed as the Green Mountain Gateway Service, CPRS will work with the New England Central Railroad (NECR); the Green Mountain Railroad (GMRC); the Massachusetts Central Railroad (MCER); and the Vermont Railway (VTR).
 
As well, the new deal will connect CPRS with the Providence and Worcester Railroad (P&W), a Class II carrier with access to ports in Rhode Island and Connecticut.
 
CPRS and its interline partners not only will gain access to the carload and intermodal traffic already moving over each of their networks, but to new markets as a result of the efficiencies that will arise from the joint-venture, Jayne Phillips, manager of interline development for CPRS in Clifton Park, New York, said.
 
"It's a great opportunity for each of the partners. It combines the transcontinental scope of CP Rail System with the local service strengths of shortlines. It's a combination that will provide more traffic and efficiency to the railways and better service to our customers".
 
The new venture, launched in February 1995, follows a number of other interline agreements struck recently between CPRS and several U.S. railways:  the Golden Arrow Bridge Line Service (CPRS, Norfolk Southern, and three shortlines, including GMRC and VTR); the Capitol Express Service (CPRS, CSX, GMRC, VTR, and Springfield Terminal Rail System); and, in 1993, the partnership with ST Rail System based at a joint-operating facility in Fort Devens, Massachusetts.
 
These partnership initiatives are designed by CPRS to capitalize on the presence it had established in the U.S. with the acquisitions of the Soo Line in the Midwest and the Delaware & Hudson in the Northeast.
 
With its own network and those of its interline partners, CPRS has strengthened its position in the North American transportation marketplace, extending its reach into some of the highest-density corridors in the U.S., Eric Moffett, marketing and sales representative for CPRS in Connecticut, said.
 
Moffett, who has spearheaded the partnership's sales drive, said the venture is designed primarily to reach new markets through its access to the NECR (formerly the Central Vermont Railway, recently sold by CN to RailTex Inc.) and the Providence & Worcester.
 
"There are many transload and warehouse operators on this line, which will help our customers get their products quickly into the New England market."
 
"With the help of the Green Mountain Railroad, we expect growth in traffic from the southern U.S. travelling over the Bridge Line Division, which provides CPRS with one of the best routes from the south to the New England market", Moffett said.
 
The Green Mountain Gateway marketers will concentrate their efforts on the metal, grain, and forest products markets, he added.
 
The deal also represents new opportunities for the shortline partners, Jerome Hebda, president and general manager of GMRC, said.
 
"We are looking forward to the partnership. It will bring benefits to all the partners through concentrated and integrated marketing efforts."
 
Hebda said the agreement already has paid off at his railway with new deals to move pulp, scrap paper, and newsprint products.
 
He added that the GMRC for many years has enjoyed a good working relationship with CPRS.
 
"CP Rail System has a great outreach program with shortlines in the area. Our long-standing cooperative relationship is stronger than ever".
 
Through its connections with GMRC, VTR, and ST Rail System, CPRS interchanges with NECR at Burlington, Bellows Falls, and Brattleboro, Vermont.
 
CPRS meets wight P&W lines through the networks of ST Rail System and NECR at Gardner, Massachusetts, and New London, Connecticut.

This CP Rail System News article is copyright 1995 by Canadian Pacific Railway and is reprinted here with their permission. All photographs, logos, and trademarks are the property of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.