According to the Railway Association of Canada, some C$380bn (US$279.7m) of goods are moved on the country’s railways each year, ranging from cars to agri commodities and frozen foods.
He said supply chains had already seen disruption as the deadline neared. "I do believe that it will be relatively short term but when you think we've pretty much been on strike for a week. They’ve stopped shipping stuff. By the time you get things up and running, it’s another week. It’s going to take six weeks to get the supply chain back into normalcy.
Anybody think about the impact on the US economy? One Canadian route runs from Fargo thru Chicago to Mexico City and the other from Minneapolis to New Orleans.
Asked when the impact of the stoppage may start to be seen on store shelves or on menus, Graydon suggested "probably two weeks". He added: "The other challenge is this is getting a lot of media in Canada right now and so what you end up with — very similar to what happened during Covid — is you get consumer hoarding and so the inventory strain is quite significant.Mayor Pete will get right on it, now that he's finished speechifying at the DNC last night about the evils of JD Vance's approach to family matters.
Many of the rail crossings will be unaffected, but some crossings of US/Canadian railroads are controlled by the Canadian road. If a highway crossing gate sticks down on a Canadian RR in the US, you may wait quite a while to get it 'unstuck'. The Illinois Central - Main Line of Mid-America, is now owned by Canadian National.