Canadian Northern & America Railroad (CNAR)

Canadian Northern and America Railway, otherwise known as CNAR, is a class 1 road in the western parts of the USA and Canada, operating between Kansas City, MO and Vancouver, BC. It's current scheme is an orange, red, and black SP inspired scheme called the "Desert Sun." CNAR formed in 1958, as a subsidiary of the SP, and remained a subsidiary with UP after the 1996 merger, until 2016 when it split from Union Pacific. Since it's birth, CNAR has remained a mainly grain oriented railroad, while also hauling mixed goods, oil, coal, intermodal, etc. CNAR has purchased the railroads Wheeling And Lake Erie, Canadian Pacific, and Atlantic And Western, with Canadian Pacific and Atlantic And Western remaining active subsidiaries. CNAR has also purchased many heritage families from different roads, including the Union Pacific heritage fleet (1982, 1983, 1988, 1989, 1995, 1996) via many purchases from different railroads, and Amtraks heritage fleet (66, 145, 156, 184, 822) via a purchase from a single company who had purchased them from Amtak. CNAR also has it's own heritage program, consisting of many locomotives in different railroad's schemes, with multiple Southern Pacific units, due to the origin of CNAR being SP. In 2017, when Amtrak was dissolved by the US government, CNAR took over the State Government and Amtrak jointly funded service named the "Pacific Surfliner." Since then, CNAR has ordered 2 Siemens SC-44 chargers for the service, purchased EMD F59PHi's from the Amtrak Cascades service, numbered 465-470, remaining in their original paint. We've also purchased some used B32-8WH's for the service, as well as many Talgo series 7 and 8 sets, painted in the same scheme that Amtrak used when testing them for a service in California and Nevada. Plans are in the works for a new service using some of the passenger equipment in Western Washington.