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Does anyone know why Canadian intermodal is growth is flat this year?
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Several reasons: Most US intermodal growth is in the LA-Chicago corridor, the rest of the intermodal numbers on the other rail corridors in the US are as stagnant as the Canadian numbers. Also, CP had a chance to introduce a new double stack innovation from Greenbrier called the "stack n' half" which would increase the load factor of a typical COFC consist by up to 30%, but TTX talked them out of it and instead convinced them to buy more of the standard well cars and build longer sidings to handle the 30% desired increase in COFC carloadings. And we all know that if the Canadian roads don't innovate to get ahead of their US counterparts, they end up falling behind. <br /> <br />DWS
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