October 28, 2009 | CN, Headlines, STB
(The following story by Andre Salles appeared on the Beacon News website on October 28, 2009.) CHICAGO — The federal Surface Transportation Board has agreed to widen its oversight of Canadian National Railway Company’s purchase of the suburban Elgin, Joliet and...
October 27, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by Brent Jang appeared on the Globe and Mail website on October 27, 2009.) MONTREAL — In his 16th floor office in Montreal, Hunter Harrison is reminiscing about his birthplace of Memphis, where he grew up a kilometre down the road from Elvis...
October 27, 2009 | CN, Headlines, STB
(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...
October 22, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(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...
October 21, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(CN issued the following on October 20, 2009.) MONTREAL — CN announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Claude Mongeau as a director of the Company, effectively immediately. Mongeau, executive vice-president of CN, will succeed E. Hunter Harrison as CN...
October 21, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(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...
October 21, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(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...
October 21, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(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,...
October 20, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(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...
October 13, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(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....
