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Freight trains collide; derailment blocks streets

(The following article by Jim Hook was posted on the Chicago Daily Southtown on September 24.) CHICAGO — Two Canadian National freight trains collided early Thursday in a rail yard in Posen, causing a derailment that temporarily closed two village side streets....

Tamaroa derailment lawsuit back on schedule

(The following article by Christi Mathis was posted on the Southern Illinoisian website on August 16.) TAMAROA, Ill. — The lawsuit filed by hundreds of Tamaroa area residents against the Canadian National Railway/Illinois Central Railroad is back on schedule....

CN confirms RoadRailer service terminated

(Today’s Trucking posted the following article on its website on August 4.) TORONTO — CN’s RoadRailer intermodal service has ceased its commercial operations between Montreal, Toronto and Chicago. Louise Fillion, spokesperson for CN, confirmed to...

Twelve CN cars jump tracks near Ardbeg

(The following report appeared on the Parry Sound North Star website on July 29.) ARDBEG, Ont. — Twelve of 47 cars on a Canadian National Railway train jumped the tracks about 15 kilometres from here. The cause of the derailment, near the remote community of...

Canadian National eliminates 18 jobs

(The following article by Patty Brandl was posted on the Fond du Lac Reporter website on July 23.) FOND DU LAC, Wisc. — The last thing that second-shift railroad workers Curtis Hanson and Chuck Immel expected when they reported to work this week at the North...

CN profit estimates raised

(The following story by Angela Barnes appeared on the Globe and Mail website on July 22.) MONTREAL — Analysts have been adjusting their profit estimates, and in some cases their price targets, on Canadian National Railway Co. after the transportation firm beat...

CN pleads not guilty in train derailment that killed two

(Broadcast News circulated the following story on July 21. Art McKay was a member of the BLET.) PRINCE GEORGE — CN Rail has asked court for a preliminary hearing be held into charges related to a fatal train derailment near McBride in May last year. The company...

CN Rail rolls to records in ‘knockout’ quarter

(The following article by Francois Shalom was posted on the Montreal Gazette website on July 21.) MONTREAL — E. Hunter Harrison called Canadian National Railway’s second quarter “a knockout quarter” yesterday, setting records or near-records in...

CN 2nd quarter net rises 34% on sales

(Bloomberg circulated the following story on July 20.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canadian National Railway Co., which has the highest profit margins among North American railroads, said earnings in the second quarter rose 34 percent, boosted by higher grain shipments....

CN consolidates its bulk commodities divisions

(The Canadian Press circulated the following story on July 15.) MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway is consolidating its U.S. and Canadian commodities operations into a single business unit. Ross Goldsworthy, CN’s vice-president for Canadian grain and...