Trump Tariffed Everything That Rides the Rails. He Never Noticed Who Owns Them.

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A mile-long freight train rolls through the American South tonight, hauling grain and chemicals on track running through sixteen states. The company whose name is on the locomotive is headquartered in Montreal. Canadian National (CN) built a US network of ~6,400 route miles across 16 states, from Chicago down through the Mississippi Valley to Mobile and New Orleans. And in 2023, after a bidding war and a merger battle US regulators scrutinized for two years, Canadian Pacific became CPKC — the ONLY single-line railroad on the continent connecting Canada, the US, AND Mexico without a single handoff to another company. No American railroad can offer that exact service. Grain, potash, chemicals, coal, automotive parts, and shipping containers ride these Canadian-owned rails every day — CN and CPKC together moved close to 60 million metric tonnes of Canadian grain in a recent crop year alone, and bulk commodities make up over a third of CPKC's freight revenue. You cannot build a competing

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