July 7, 2025 - Trains.com -
Canadian Pacific Kansas City can send Midwestern grain to export at the ports of Houston and Galveston via haulage rights over Union Pacific south of Beaumont, Texas, the Surface Transportation Board said.
Union Pacific in 2023 had sought to block CPKC’s use of Kansas City Southern’s so-called South End haulage rights, which were granted to preserve competition as part of UP’s 1988 acquisition of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway.
KCS had only sporadically used the haulage rights. The 2023 CP-KCS merger, however, prompted shipper interest in using CPKC single-line service from the Upper Midwest to reach export markets via Houston and Galveston.