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Chicago burbs critical of CN
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Chicago burbs critical of CNCHICAGO - A coalition of suburban communities opposed to increased freight train traffic has sent Washington officials a report alleging an "alarming" number of violations by Canadian National Railway Co., the Chicago Tribune reports. The Regional Answ...
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CN chief optimistic despite plunge in profit
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CN chief optimistic despite plunge in profitMONTREAL -- Hunter Harrison isn't fretting that Canadian National Railway Co.'s (CNR-T55.040.300.55%) cargo volumes will plunge again, The Globe and Mail reports. "We've bounced across the bottom, and now we're starting to float to the top,&q...
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CN’s Chicago traffic delays increase
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CNs 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...
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Are noisy CN/EJ&E trains derailing lives?
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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 goin...
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CN, Canadian locomotive engineers resume talks
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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 eng...
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Man files lawsuit against CN Railway
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Man files lawsuit against CN RailwayCHICAGO - 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 area, the Sun-Times reports. In a suit filed this week in Cook County Circuit Court, Korey Cu...
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TCRC, CN negotiations adjourn
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TCRC, CN negotiations adjourn (The following appeared at TradingMarkets.com on September 28, 2009.) WINNIPEG, Manitoba Talks between officials with Canadian National Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference Union, or TCRC, which is representing roughly 1,700 locomotive engineers...
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CN improves Chicago shortline traffic
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CN improves Chicago shortline trafficTrain traffic is rising on the Chicago-area short line that Canadian National Railway absorbed this year, but CN told regulators it further reduced long train-caused delays at roadway crossings in August, the Journal of Commerce reported. In its latest mon...
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CN completes $100 million Memphis yard reconstruction; Names it after E. Hunter Harrison
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CN completes $100 million Memphis yard reconstruction; Names it after E. Hunter Harrison (CN issued the following on September 24, 2009.) MEMPHIS, Tenn. CN today announced the completion of the $100 million multi-year construction project to reconfigure and modernize its Memphis rail classif...
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CN sends Max to the negotiation table
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CN, Canadian locomotive engineers optimistic about talks (The following appeared at TradingMarkets.com on September 24, 2009.) WINNIPEG, Manitoba Officials with Canadian National Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference Union, or TCRC, which is representing roughly 1,700 locomot...
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Fighting the railroad a lonely battle
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Fighting the railroad a lonely battle(The following column, "Fighting the railroad can be a lonely battle," by Guy Tridgell appeared Sept. 22, 2009, in the Chicago Sun-Times.) And then there was one. In the summer of 2008, from the Indiana state line to Joliet, our suburbs presented a un...
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Ill. town reaches deal with CN
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Ill. town reaches deal with CNPARK FOREST, Ill. The Village Board on Monday will consider an agreement worth more than $7.35 million it has reached with Canadian National Railway, the Park Forest News reports. The agreement caps off many, many negotiations on the part of Village Manager Tom Mick an...
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CP forecast not rosy
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CP forecast not rosyDespite some rosy talk from some forecasters about an economic recovery, the head of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. says he's uncertain whether his railway will see its usual "fall peak" this year with the heads of the country's largest retailers indicating they wil...
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CN CFO: Rail freight volume has bottomed
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CN CFO: Rail freight volume has bottomedA number of top railroad executives voiced some optimism Tuesday (Sept. 8) that the steep downturn in freight volumes may have bottomed, although they cautioned that a recovery will take time, the Dow Jones Newswires reported. "We have found the botto...
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CREATE partners alter program to suit CN's EJ&E acquisition
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CREATE partners alter program to suit CN's EJ&E acquisition (The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on August 20, 2009.) The Association of American Railroads, Federal Highway Administration, Illinois Department of Transportation and Chicago Department of Tran...
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Horseshoe Curve
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Heard about this one all my life, so drove two hundred miles out of my way to see it. Trouble is you can't see it. Ok, it is near Altoona, PA and was a great engineering marvel. Trouble is someone spent several million of our taxpayer bucks to create a nice visitors center. Then they charged me to enter...
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Opinion: Canadian National bests U.S. rivals (The following column by Jake Lynch appeared at TheStreet.com on July 28, 2009.) BOSTON Canadian National Railway is smaller and less well-known than larger U.S. rivals Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe. But Montreal-based Canadian Na...
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3 people injured in tanker explosion
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3 people injured in tanker explosionSTAR, Miss. - A tanker truck and a Canadian National Railway locomotive collided Sunday in Rankin County causing an explosion that left three people injured, including one in critical condition, the Associated Press reports. The collision happened about 11:...
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CN outlook a sign economy recovering
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CN outlook a sign economy recoveringTORONTO -- Canadian National Railway Co., Canada's largest railroad, reported improvements since May in moving products such as coal and grain, a sign the country's economy may be turning around, the Globe and Mail reported. Montreal-based Canadian Nationa...
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CN says ready to meet with Teamsters, conciliators
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CN says ready to meet with Teamsters, conciliators (Reuters circulated the following on July 10, 2009.) OTTAWA Canadian National Railway Co (CNR.TO) (CNI.N) said on Friday that it is ready to meet with two conciliators, recently appointed by Ottawa, and the Teamsters union to discuss a labor deal...
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Canadian Pacific to install trip optimizers
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Canadian Pacific to install trip optimizerson 200 road locomotivesPublished: Thursday, July 09, 2009 TRAINS Magazine NEWSWIREERIE, Pa. - General Electric announced today that it has been awarded a contract by Canadian Pacific Railway to equip 200 locomotives with its Trip Optimizer fuel savi...
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Ill. goes after CN for ethanol train derailment
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Ill. goes after CN for ethanol train derailmentSPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Director Doug Scott has asked the Illinois Attorney General's office to proceed with enforcement action against the Canadian National/Illinois Central Railroad, as a result of a rec...
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Sheriff warned CN of washout 21 minutes before derailment
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Sheriff warned CN of washout 21 minutes before derailment (The following story by Corina Curry appeared on the Rockford Register-Star website on June 22, 2009.) ROCKFORD, Ill. A Winnebago County sheriff sergeant was on the phone with a Canadian National Railway representative 21 minutes before...
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