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STB expands Canadian National reporting

(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on October 26, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canadian National Railway will have to expand its monthly reporting to regulators about its newly acquired short line outside Chicago, as the...

CN orders 70 new high-horsepower locomotives from GE and EMD

(CN issued the following on October 21, 2009.) MONTREAL — CN announced today orders for 70 new high-horsepower locomotives from GE Transportation, a unit of General Electric Co. (GE), and Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. (EMD). CN will acquire 35 ES44DC locomotives from GE...

CN profit sags 13 percent but says worst is over

(Reuters circulated the following on October 20, 2009.) VANCOUVER, B.C. — Canadian National Railway reported a better than expected 13 percent drop in third-quarter profit on Tuesday as deep cost cuts helped cushion the impact of the recession. Executives at...

CN reports lower 2009 third quarter net income

(CN issued the following on October 20, 2009.) MONTREAL — CN today reported its financial and operating results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2009. Third-quarter 2009 highlights * Net income declined to C$461 million, or C$0.97 per diluted share, from year...

CN chief optimistic despite plunge in profit

(The following story by Brent Jang appeared on the Globe and Mail website on October 21, 2009.) MONTREAL — Hunter Harrison isn’t fretting that Canadian National Railway Co.’s cargo volumes will plunge again. “We’ve bounced across the bottom,...

CN’s Chicago traffic delays increase

(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on October 19, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canadian National Railway said its trains blocked roadway crossings eight times during September when trains stopped for 10 minutes or more along...

Are noisy CN/EJ&E trains derailing lives?

(The following story by Amy Lee appeared on the Southtown Star website on October 13, 2009.) CHICAGO — An influx of nighttime train traffic on the old Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Co. tracks has Ken Kemp questioning his sanity. “We’re all going crazy....

CN, Canadian locomotive engineers resume talks

(The following appeared at TradingMarkets.com on October 6, 2009.) WINNIPEG, MB — Talks between officials with Canadian National Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference Union, or TCRC, which is representing roughly 1,700 locomotive engineers, resumed Tuesday...

Man files discrimination lawsuit against CN

(The following story by John K. Ryan appeared on the Southtown Star website on October 2, 2009.) CHICAGO — A black man is suing Homewood-based Canadian National Railway for discrimination, saying he was harassed on the job with such acts as finding nooses in his work...