As Canadian Pacific (NYSE: CP) and Kansas City Southern (NYSE: KSU) press the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to approve their proposed merger, the issue of rail service is going to serve as a “key flashpoint,” according to an executive with consulting firm FTR Transportation Intelligence.
“You’ve always had service impacts. You’ve always had service hiccups, in some cases dramatically to shippers, and they’ve generally been of a long duration of several years,” said Todd Tranausky, FTR vice...