| Posted by William on January 13, 2020 | |
Maybe you can inform me about something. How is it that a Foreign Country, Canada, (I know our two countries are like cousins ) is allowed to operate on US soil? I doubt UP or BN operate more then 30 miles into Canada.
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CP owns track throughout the US through their wholly owned subsidiary Soo Line Railroad. Up until the mid 90s, companies from other countries were prohibited from owning US companies. CP got around this by owning 49% of SOO. CN got around it by owning 49% of Grand Trunk. Once the laws were changed allowing foreign countries to own US companies, CP bought out SOO and CN bought out GT. Now they operate their US based companies as separate business units of the larger company. Another consideration for the above photo is that the locomotive in question may be on a run through train. Trains that traverse more than one railroad now usually share power (Run Through) for the entire run. That way they don't have to swap locomotives part way through the journey. Railroads also track the time locomotives spend on other railroads (Horsepower hours). Railroads can then send locomotives to other railroads to pay back horsepower hours. So CP locomotives going all the way to Mexico is common, as is BNSF/UP power throughout Canada or Mexico.
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