Complex sentence: Cando's first contract was for two abandoned rail lines near Tilston, Manitoba for Canadian Pacific, who at the time was abandoning smaller subdivisions in order to focus on east-west traffic across Canada.
Split into simpler sentences: Cando's first contract was for two abandoned rail lines near Tilston, Manitoba for Canadian Pacific. At the time, CP was abandoning smaller subdivisions in order to focus on east-west traffic across Canada.