November 6, 2008 | CN, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Alberta Farmer Express website on November 6.) CALGARY, Alberta — Prairie farmers loading grain in producer rail cars to roll on CN track will need to carefully check cars’ load limits or risk fines of up to $10,000 per car, the...
November 6, 2008 | CN, Headlines
(The following column by Guy Tridgell appeared on the Southtown Star website on November 6.) CHICAGO — The Canadian National Railway has been accused of attempting to ruin the suburbs. A year ago, the Montreal railroad, with a U.S. headquarters in Homewood, petitioned...
November 4, 2008 | CN, Headlines
(Reuters circulated the following on November 3.) VANCOUVER, B.C. — Canadian National Railway Co. will pay C$50 million ($42.2 million) for three Eastern Canadian rail lines it sold in the 1990s, echoing repurchases it has made in Western Canada, the company said on...
November 3, 2008 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by Guy Tridgell appeared on the Southtown Star website on November 2.) CHICAGO — The Canadian National Railway has been accused of attempting to ruin the suburbs. A year ago, the Montreal railroad, with a U.S. headquarters in Homewood, petitioned...
November 3, 2008 | CN, Headlines
(The Canadian Press circulated the following on November 3.) MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway Co. (TSX:CNR) is buying a number of rail and ferry operations from Quebec Railway Corp. for $49.8 million. CN said Monday it will acquire three railway operations and a...
October 31, 2008 | CN, CP, Headlines
(The following appeared on the National Post website on October 30.) OTTAWA — With the earnings season behind them, the results of North America’s top tier railway appear to have impressed UBS analyst Rick Paterson. “The North American rails just completed one of the...
October 31, 2008 | CN, Headlines, STB
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on the Traffic World website on October 30.) WASHINGTON, C.D. — As Canadian National Railway tries to get a federal appeals court to force the Surface Transportation Board to rule soon on its Chicago-area plans, the U.S....
October 28, 2008 | CN, Headlines
(CN issued the following on October 27.) MONTREAL — CN (TSX: CNR)(NYSE: CNI) today accepted delivery of a new track geometry vehicle for the electronic inspection of track curvature, alignment and cross-level of rail lines across its network. The state-of-the-art,...
October 23, 2008 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by Scott Deveau appeared on the Financial Post website on October 23.) OTTAWA — Canadian National Railway Co. (CNR/TSX) beat the Street’s expectations this week, turning in a 14% climb in net income during the third quarter despite the...
October 23, 2008 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by Inyoung Hwang appeared on the Medill Reports website on October 22.) CHICAGO — The chief executive officer of Canadian National Railway Co. affirmed Tuesday his confidence in obtaining regulatory approval for the company’s $300-million purchase...