Albany Oregon USA - Having torn myself away from the national news Saturday night, I was taking my usual bike ride through the east end of old Albany when I heard the horn of a train coming down from the north.
 
Pulled by two locomotives of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPKC), the train made it to the Burkhart Street bike crossing just before I got there.
 
By the time I got off the bike and got my phone out, all I managed to record were multiple cars and a locomotive trailing.
 
As you see, the engine bringing up the rear of this long train was from the Kansas City Southern.
 
The two lead locomotives were, as I said, from the Canadian Pacific.
 
The explanation became apparent when I looked it up.
 
The Canadian Pacific was combined with the Kansas City Southern in April 2023, and the combined railroad is now known as the Canadian Pacific Kansas City.
 
The company's global headquarters remains in Calgary according to a press release from last year.
 
It planned to build a U.S. operations center in Kansas City.
 
The railroad claims to be the only single line that connects Canada with the United States and Mexico.
 
It has port access on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as well as the Gulf of Mexico.
 
As this shows, you can learn something by standing at an Albany rail crossing and watching a train go by.
 
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