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In Canada, CN and CP customers slam rail freight service
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In Canada, CN and CP customers slam rail freight service (The following story by Scott Deveau of the Financial Post appeared on the Montreal Gazette website on March 4, 2010.) MONTREAL Customers of Canada largest railways have issued a damning review of the quality of service they have received in r...
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CN/EJ&E merger: One year later
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CN/EJ&E merger: One year laterFor Faith Rawley, the difference between life before and after the merger of the Canadian National Railroad and the EJ&E railway is measured in vibrations, the Daily Herald reports. "The windows rattle, the walls vibrate," said Rawley, who can s...
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Canadian Pacific Railway Limited declares dividend
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Canadian Pacific Railway Limited declares dividend (Canadian Pacific issued the following on February 23, 2010.) CALGARY The Board of Directors of Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (TSX/NYSE: CP) today declared a quarterly dividend of twenty four and three quarter cents ($0.2475) Canadian pe...
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CN announces new marketing team
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CN announces new marketing team (CN issued the following on February 16, 2010.) MONTREAL Jean-Jacques Ruest, executive vice-president and chief marketing officer of CN (TSX: CNR)(NYSE: CNI), announced today the appointment of his marketing team another key step in CNs drive to reach the next le...
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CP probes Iowa switching incident
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CP probes Iowa switching incidentThe Canadian Pacific Railway is investigating an incident involving a train that occurred Monday afternoon in the same spot as last summers deadly derailment behind Hampton Cranes in Bettendorf, Iowa, the Quad City Times reports. Mike LoVecchio, a spokesman fo...
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CN derailment strands Via Rail passengers
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CN derailment strands Via Rail passengers (The following story by Ian Hitchen appeared on the Winnipeg Free Press website on February 12, 2010.) BRANDON Some Via Rail Canada passengers had to either bunk down in trains or make alternative travel plans when their route was blocked by a 56-car train d...
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Homes evacuated after CN sideswipe
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Homes evacuated after CN sideswipeNEGAUNEE TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- A Canadian National Railroad locomotive and an LS&I Railroad crew were transferring rail cars at the LS&Is Eagle Mills yard in Negaunee Township early Friday morning and apparently contact was made with a propane tank car th...
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CP says forecast guarded, not gloomy
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CP says forecast guarded, not gloomyOTTAWA -- Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. says its view of the economy is no "gloomier" than other carriers and instead reflects management's focus on preparing for an eventual recovery. Reuters reported. Last month, Canada's second-biggest railw...
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Rail merger could mean loss of Ill. buildings
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Rail merger could mean loss of Ill. buildingsCHICAGO - When Canadian National Railway purchased "The J" (EJ&E Railroad) a year ago, there was lots of hubbub regarding a potential increase in train traffic on the one remaining major east-west rail line through the Southland, accor...
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CN to open logistics park near Calgary
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CN to open logistics park near CalgaryCN announced Thursday it will invest $100 million in a logistics park northeast of the city and close its cramped southeast Calgary train yard, the Calgary Herald reports. The decision will mean fewer trains shuttling through southeast Calgary, welcome news...
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Modest income increase for CP
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Modest income increase for CPCanadian Pacific Railway Ltd. posted a modest 3 percent increase in fourth-quarter income Thursday (Jan. 28) to close out fiscal 2009, the Financial Post reported. For the period ended Dec. 31, CP Rail profit rose to $194-million ($1.15 a share), up from $188.1-milli...
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New Lenox seeks agreement with CN
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New Lenox seeks agreement with CN (The following story by Susan Demar Lafferty appeared on the Southtown Star website on February 2, 2010.) CHICAGO New Lenox Mayor Tim Baldermann is "confident" that he soon will be talking to Canadian National Railway officials before the village's ba...
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CN profit falls 20 percent
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CN profit falls 20 percentCanadian National Railway Co. delivered a 20 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit yesterday (Jan. 25), the Financial Post reported. But the new management at Canada's largest railway say they have been heartened by sequential growth in their volumes in recent months,...
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CP Railway...for a change!
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CP earnings top Wall Street expectations Canadian Pacific Railway earned a third-quarter profit of $195 million, up 14% from 2008, the railroad announced Tuesday. Diluted earnings per share were $1.16, an increase of 5% (All figures are in Canadian dollars.)CP said foreign exchange gains and...
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CN names operations, marketing chiefs
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CN names operations, marketing chiefsClaude Mongeau, who took over this year as Canadian National Railway's president and CEO, named his top operations and marketing executives as he builds out his leadership team, the Journal of Commerce reported. CN named Keith Creel, previously executive v...
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CN Rail fined for improper manifests
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CN Rail fined for improper manifestsVANCOUVER, B.C. CN Rail has been fined $45,000 for running trains in Surrey, B.C., without properly listing the dangerous cargo they carried, the Canadian Press reports. The company pled guilty to violating one count of the Railway Safety Act while six other ch...
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Regulators taking closer look at CN reports
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Regulators taking closer look at CN reportsCHICAGO -- Federal regulators said Wednesday they're taking a closer look at concerns about noise, vibrations and train delays along the former Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway line, The Chicago Tribune reported. The U.S. Surface Transportation B...
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CN's Chicago bypass plans on track
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CN's Chicago bypass plans on trackCHICAGO - Nearly one year after the Canadian National Railway purchased a suburban rail line as a freight bypass around Chicago, fears of a massive influx of two-mile-long trains rolling through dozens of neighborhoods haven't yet materialized, the Tribune rep...
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CN to pay $25,000 for environmental testing after derailment
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CN to pay $25,000 for environmental testing after derailment (The Associated Press circulated the following on January 2, 2010.) ROCKFORD, Ill. Canadian National Railway has agreed to pay $25,000 for environmental testing of soil and water after a train carrying ethanol derailed in Rockford la...
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CN faces fine in Canada for overcharging
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CN faces fine in Canada for overchargingThe federal government ruled Dec. 31 that Canadian National Railway Co. earned too much money from hauling grain in the 2008-09 crop year and ordered it to pay pack more than $700,000, according to the CanWest News Service. CN's grain revenue of $479,788,412...
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Injured hawk "plowed south" by railroad
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Injured hawk "plowed south" by railroadNAPERVILLE, Ill. -- This bird went south for the winter the hard way, The Chicago Sun-Times reports. A Ferruginous hawk was apparently struck by a train in western Canada -- and then got stuck in the front plow of the train for 1,000 to 2,000 miles. It...
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Train wreck 'almost a blessing'
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Train wreck 'almost a blessing'CHICAGO - When three cars of a freight train slid off the tracks in Burlington at about 2:30 a.m. a week ago Tuesday, Burlington Village Board members may have been wishing the errant tank cars had slid just a little bit farther, the Sun-Times reports. Then they might ha...
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CN CEO Hunter Harrison: On the record
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CN CEO Hunter Harrison: On the record(Following is an interview with CN CEO Hunter Harrison, published Dec. 29 by the Toronto Globe & Mail. Harrison retires Dec. 31, at age 65. Are you going to put your feet up? For a little while. The worst thing some people do is try to plan retirement too much. Yo...
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