| Notes | Jacobin:Blame Canada for US Rail Bosses’ Incredibly Dangerous Railroad Management Before this hazardous policy was adopted by America’s rail giants it was pioneered in Canada by CN Rail and Canadian Pacific (CP) with fatal results. PSR’s uptake can be credited to the evangelizing of its creator, Hunter Harrison, who brought the system to Canada as head of CN Rail in the late 1990s. Harrison then brought the system to Canada’s other Class I Railway, Canadian Pacific, in the early 2010s. AsNew York Magazine: A decade ago, the activist investor Bill Ackman won a proxy battle at Canadian Pacific and proceeded to replace its management with a team led by Hunter Harrison, the railway executive who’d pioneered PSR. After imposing the gospel of “more with less” at Canadian Pacific, Harrison left to spread the good news to the freight giant CSX |