Transportation Management Proiect Railroad lndust_ry The railroad industry in Canada, is a critical part of the nation's infrastructure to move goods from suppliers to customers in many different industries. This industry has evolved over the years from a slow and cumbersome method of moving goods between two points to a dynamic, competitive option responding to the lust-ln-Time requirements of many demanding customers. According to Transportation Canada, the Canadian rail industry has increased investment in railway networks, improved rail safety and security, developed strategic partnerships to share track and expand reach, and engaged in industry-wide efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Canada's rail transportation industry is moving full steam ahead in support of the country's economic growth. The rail system in Canada was critical to the development of the nation. Following Confederation Canada was a group of disparate regions with a cluster of provinces to the East, including Ontario, Quebec and the Maritime Provinces [1867] separated from British Columbia in the West [1870] with vast, nearly empty, prairie lands in between. A bold plan was adopted to tie these regions together to ensure that the country, in its early days, would be connected for trade and resist the pull of joining the United States to the South. As the nation and the economy grew, rail transportation expanded in a vast network throughout the country, into newly developed territories in the North to support the mining and lumber industries as well as central Canada, moving people and goods from the growing cities to newly developed communities. At present the Canadian Pacic Railway [CP] and the Canadian National Railway [CNR) dominate the exclusively private network of railways that now, through ownership of and partnerships with US rail lines, extend their capability to move products throughout the United States and into Mexico. Transportation Canada indicates that 95% of Canadian rail tonne- kjlgmgtgm 75% of the industry's tracks and three quarters of overall tonnage is handled by these two operators. However, there is much more to this industry than even these two rms represent. WORK :- The purpose of this assignment is to involve students in the development of a detailed profile of the railroad industry as outlined in the following rubric. Every mode of transportation involves transferring a product to where the customer wants or needs it or where they wish to purchase it in the distribution channel [at the right place), when they want it [the right time], for what they are willing to pay [at the right price], and finally, at the expected quality or specied quality, thus meeting all their requirements