Canadian Pacific Railway

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Canadian Pacific Railway

Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique
Canadian Pacific system map (does not include DM&E or CMQ trackage)
CP 8137, a rebuilt GE AC4400CWM, in Chesterton, Indiana
Overview
Parent company	Canadian Pacific Railway Limited
Headquarters	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Reporting mark	CP, CPAA, MILW, SOO, DME, ICE, DH
Locale	Canada and the United States
Dates of operation	16 February 1881–14 April 2023
Successor	Canadian Pacific Kansas City
Technical
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Length	20,100 kilometres (12,500 mi)
Other
Website	cpr.ca

Canadian Pacific Railway Limited

An alternative CP logo, featuring a beaver, Canada's national animal
Company type	Public
Traded as	TSX: CP NYSE: CP
Industry	Rail transport
Founded	February 16, 1881 (1881-02-16)
Defunct	April 14, 2023 (2023-04-14) (142 years, 1 month and 29 days)
Fate	Merged with Kansas City Southern.
Successor	Canadian Pacific Kansas City
Headquarters	Calgary, Alberta , Canada
Area served	Canada Contiguous United States
Key people	Andrew Reardon (chairman) Keith Creel (president and CEO)
Revenue	CA$7.710 billion (2020)
Operating income	CA$3.311 billion (2020)
Net income	CA$2.444 billion (2020)
Total assets	CA$19.221 billion (2020)
Total equity	CA$4.626 billion (2020)
Number of employees	11,904 (2020)
Subsidiaries	List of subsidiary railways of the Canadian Pacific Railway, TTX Company, Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad, St. Lawrence and Hudson Railway
Website	cpr.ca
Footnotes / references [1]

The Canadian Pacific Railway (French: Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique) (reporting marks CP, CPAA, MILW, SOO), also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), was a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway was owned by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001.^[2]

Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, the railway owned approximately 20,100 kilometres (12,500 mi) of track in seven provinces of Canada and into the United States,^[2] stretching from Montreal to Vancouver, and as far north as Edmonton. Its rail network^[3] also served Minneapolis–St. Paul, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, and Albany, New York, in the United States.

The railway was first built between eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885 (connecting with Ottawa Valley and Georgian Bay area lines built earlier), fulfilling a commitment extended to British Columbia^[4] when it entered Confederation in 1871; the CPR was Canada's first transcontinental railway. Primarily a freight railway, the CPR was for decades the only practical means of long-distance passenger transport in most regions of Canada and was instrumental in the settlement and development of Western Canada. The CPR became one of the largest and most powerful companies in Canada, a position it held as late as 1975.^[5]

The company acquired two American lines in 2009: the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad (DM&E) and the Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad (IC&E). The trackage of the IC&E was at one time part of CP subsidiary Soo Line and predecessor line The Milwaukee Road. The combined DM&E/IC&E system spanned North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Iowa, with two lines stretching into Kansas City, Missouri, and Chicago, Illinois. Also, the company owns the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad, a Hammond, Indiana-based terminal railroad along with Conrail Shared Assets Operations. CP's ownership of that railroad traces back to the Soo Line's ownership, inherited from the Milwaukee Road.

The CPR is publicly traded on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker CP. Its U.S. headquarters are in Minneapolis.^[6] As of March 30, 2023, the largest shareholder of Canadian Pacific stock exchange is TCI Fund Management Limited, a London-based hedge fund that owns 6% of the company.^[7]

CP purchased the Kansas City Southern Railway in December 2021 for US$31 billion. On April 14, 2023, the railroads merged to form CPKC, the first and only railroad to directly serve Canada, Mexico and the United States.