| During
the early 1970s a major shortage of grain cars developed in Canada.
Railways were reluctant to invest in new cars given the artificially
low rate for moving grain in Canada, and as a result the Canadian
government stepped in to provide the desperately needed grain cars
under the mantle of the Canadian Wheat Board, which is the marketing
agency for Western Canadian wheat and barley growers. CNWX cars are
assigned to service on the Canadian National, CPWX are assigned to
the Canadian Pacific, and they rarely wander from their assigned road. |