CPKC completes second span over Rio Grande at Laredo gateway

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The $100 million Patrick J. Ottensmeyer International Railway Bridge is officially complete.

The second span across the Rio Grande — linking Laredo, Texas, with Nuevo Laredo, Mexico — doubles Canadian Pacific Kansas City’s cross-border capacity because it allows the railway to eliminate the four-hour northbound and southbound directional running windows that created bottlenecks on its original lone single-track bridge.

“Completion of this internationally important project more than doubles our...

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