Canadian Teamsters and CP Rail blamed each other for a work stoppage Sunday that brought trains to a halt across Canada and interrupted fertilizer and other shipments to and from the U.S.
A Canadian Pacific Railway bridge used to transport passengers, crude oil and other hazardous chemicals through densely populated Milwaukee neighborhoods is structurally sound but will nonetheless be reinforced with concrete, a spokesperson for the company said Tuesday.
Several Milwaukee aldermen are claiming Canadian Pacific Railway is impeding the city's attempts to oversee the safety of bridges used to transport crude oil and other hazardous chemicals through densely populated neighborhoods.
No written contract means no compensation for high-speed rail work a company did for a project that was abandoned, according to a state Claims Board decision released Tuesday.
A railroad has agreed to pay $625,000 to settle allegations that it failed to adequately clean up a 2008 oil spill that damaged the shoreline and aquatic life in the Mississippi River between Iowa and Wisconsin.
A Canadian Pacific Railway attorney tried Tuesday to persuade the state Claims Board to hand the railroad more than half a million dollars for helping develop a high-speed rail plan before Gov. Scott Walker killed the project.