July 29, 2014 | CN, Headlines
(Source: CN press release, July 28, 2014) MONTREAL — CN said today Canada’s rail transportation system is ready to accommodate the new harvest with a solid throughput rate in line with the grain supply chain. The supply chain will also be able to address the excess...
July 23, 2014 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 22, 2014) SLINGER, Wisc. — Cleanup crews at the scene of Sunday’s two-train collision and derailment in Slinger will finish vacuuming up spilled diesel fuel Tuesday and shift to excavating contaminated soil the remainder...
July 22, 2014 | CN, Headlines, Quarterly Income
(Source: CN press release, July 21, 2014) MONTREAL — CN today reported its financial and operating results for the second quarter and six-month period ended June 30, 2014. Second-quarter 2014 financial highlights • Net income was C$847 million, or C$1.03 per diluted...
July 22, 2014 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 22, 2014) SLINGER, Wisc. — Railroad crews are checking whether equipment malfunction or another emergency on a Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co. train might have caused a two-train collision and derailment in the center...
July 21, 2014 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 21, 2014) SLINGER, Wisc. — Evacuations from a train derailment here ended overnight, and crews began Monday morning removing the damaged engines and rail cars from the tracks where about 4,000 gallons of diesel fuel had...
June 12, 2014 | CN, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Manitoba Cooperator, June 11, 2014) WINNIPEG, Manitoba — CN Rail says it has moved a record amount of Western grain so far this crop year but shippers say that doesn’t make up for poor service earlier in the shipping season. Full story: Manitoba...
June 11, 2014 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Rockford Register Star, January 10, 2014) ROCKFORD, Ill. — Last week, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL, accused the CN Railway of delaying negotiations with the state of Illinois about operating passenger grains on its line from Chicagoland to Rockford and west to...
June 5, 2014 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Daily Herald, June 4, 2014) CHICAGO — U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin pulled out the threat of extending federal oversight of the Canadian National Railway in a letter to its CEO citing “poor communication and cooperation.” Durbin accused the railroad of...
May 30, 2014 | CN, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, May 29, 2014) MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway Chief Executive Claude Mongeau said on Thursday he expects U.S. regulators to phase out use of DOT-111 tank cars in three to five years, following a deadly explosion in Quebec last year. Full story:...
May 29, 2014 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Reuters, May 28, 2014) CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian National Railway Co, Canada’s largest rail carrier, said in a news release on Wednesday that it is exceeding grain-shipment levels mandated earlier this year by the Canadian government despite a record...
