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FRA, STB eye CN/EJ&E issues
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FRA, STB eye CN/EJ&E issuesCHICAGO - Almost a year after federal regulators approved the merger of the Canadian National and EJ&E railways, government officials toured some of the communities affected by the transaction, the Daily Herald reports. Federal Railroad Administrator Jose...
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CP Rail trying to reduce deaths of grizzlies
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CP Rail trying to reduce deaths of grizzliesEDMONTON, Alta. Wildlife and railway experts will be thinking outside the boxcar this winter to come up with ways to reduce the number of grizzly bears that are killed by trains that rumble through the Rocky Mountain national parks, according to the Canad...
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Alberta arbitrator to settle CN engineers' dispute
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Alberta arbitrator to settle CN engineers' dispute (The following appeared on the Alberta Farmer website on December 22, 2009.) A vice-chairman of the Alberta Labour Relations Board has been tasked with settling a new contract between Canadian National Railway (CN) and 1,700 of its engineers. E...
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Countdown...
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CN, union seek arbitration
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CN, union seek arbitrationTORONTO -- Canadian National Railway Co. and the union representing 1,700 locomotive engineers will submit unresolved wage and benefits issues to binding arbitration after talks failed to yield a deal, Reuters reported. Canada's largest railway resumed labor talks...
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Drunk train-hopper recovers
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Drunk train-hopper recoversAn intoxicated man who hopped on a train in Wetaskiwin, south of Edmonton, for a brief ride home would likely have frozen to death if he hadn't called for help with his cellphone, RCMP told CBC News. At around 3:45 a.m. Friday, RCMP received a cellphone call from the 29-yea...
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Deal struck to end strike at CN Rail
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Deal struck to end strike at CN RailMONTREAL -- Canadian National Railway Co. and the Teamsters union have reached a deal to end a strike by locomotive engineers which began Saturday (Nov. 28), the Canadian Press reported. Details of the agreement yesterday were not immediately available. Teamst...
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CN Rail, workers resume talks
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CN Rail, workers resume talksMONTREAL, Ont. - Canadian National Railway resumed talks Thursday with the union representing locomotive engineers as it worked to restore full service following a five-day strike, the Canadian Press reports. CN spokesman Mark Hallman said the railway is working t...
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CN acts quickly to resume normal operations
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CN acts quickly to resume normal operations (The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on December 3, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. Canadian National Railway was ramping its operations back up Dec. 3 following a five-day strike by locomotive engineers, but it was no...
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CP tests animal-fat, vegetable-oil biodiesel
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CP tests animal-fat, vegetable-oil biodieselOTTAWA -- Animal fat, restaurant grease and vegetable oil will help power four Canadian Pacific Railway locomotives this winter to test if biodiesel fuel can stand up to a harsh Canadian winter, Reuters reported. The Canadian government, which plan...
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CN softens stance on engineers' walkout
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CN softens stance on engineers' walkoutOTTAWA, Ont. Canadian National Railway offered a potential olive branch Tuesday to striking locomotive engineers, who are angry about a change in the amount of time they have to work each month, Reuters reports. Canada's biggest railway said it would agree...
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Deal struck to end CN Canada strike
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Deal struck to end CN Canada strikeMONTREAL -- Canadian National Railway Co. and the Teamsters union have reached a deal to end a strike by locomotive engineers which began Saturday (Nov. 28), the Canadian Press reports. Details of the agreement yesterday were not immediately available. Teamste...
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CN Rail strike won't hurt Halifax port: officials
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Last Updated: Saturday, November 28, 2009 | 6:46 PM AT CBC News A strike by 1,700 CN Rail engineers across Canada is not expected to affect container traffic at the Halifax Port Authority, officials say. But some of the local engineers, who were protesting Saturday along the major rail line between H...
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Company urges Teamsters to work toward settlement to avoid strike threatened for Saturday, Nov. 28 MONTREAL, Nov. 25, 2009 CN (TSX: CNR)(NYSE: CNI) today received a 72-hour strike notice from the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) of its plan to strike the company at 0001 hours Nov. 28, 2009...
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TCRC workers on CN eye strike
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TCRC workers on CN eye strikeTORONTO -- A potential labour disruption could be looming at Canadian National Railway Co. after the countrys largest railway decided to unilaterally impose contract changes on 1,700 of its engineers following 14 months of failed contract negotiations with their un...
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Wage increase?
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CN sets wage increase, mileage caps, for engineers Reacting to a failure to reach agreement with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, Canadian National has announced it will increase wage rates and apply a change to the mileage caps for the company's locomotive engineers the union represents in...
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Two CN workers hurt in derailment
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Two CN workers hurt in derailmentBOSTON BAR, B.C. A mudslide prompted by heavy rains derailed four CN Rail cars and slightly injured two workers early Tuesday morning, the Canadian Press reports. CN spokeswoman Kelli Svendsen said the Canadian Pacific freight was being operated by a CN crew and wa...
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CN reaches 20th voluntary mitigation agreement in EJ&E integration
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CN reaches 20th voluntary mitigation agreement in EJ&E integration (CN issued the following on November 17, 2009.) CHICAGO CN announced today a voluntary mitigation agreement (VMA) related to its acquisition of the principal lines of the former Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company (E...
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Lake Zurich, CN settle
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Lake Zurich, CN settleLake Zurich's Village Board voted unanimously Monday to accept a nearly $2 million memorandum of agreement with the Canadian National Railway Co. over the railway's acquisition of the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railroad, at the board's Monday night meeting, the Pioneer Pre...
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CN Rail, engineers to resume talks
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CN Rail, engineers to resume talksVANCOUVER, B.C. - Negotiators for Canadian National Railway Co. and its 1,700 unionized locomotive engineers will resume talks on a new labor contract on Wednesday, a company spokesman told Reuters. The engineers, represented by the Teamsters union, have been...
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CP's rail volumes level off
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CP's rail volumes level offAny glimmer of hope that a sustained volume recovery was underway at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. dimmed yesterday with the country's second-largest railway saying its upward volume trend has leveled off in recent weeks, according to the Financial Post. "Throu...
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CN moves on PTC
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CN moves on PTCGARY, Ind. - A $10 billion unfunded mandate regarding "positive train control" -- wherein trains will need to be outfitted with GPS technology that'll detect when trains are near each other -- may hamper the railroad industry as a whole, but as far as Canadian National Rail...
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CN executive vice-president, sales and marketing leaving CN
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CN executive vice-president, sales and marketing leaving CN (CN issued the following on November 6, 2009.) MONTREAL CN today announced that James M. Foote, CN executive vice-president, Sales and Marketing has decided to leave the Company after 14 years at CN. E. Hunter Harrison, president and ch...
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Cleanup from freight train crash in Northbrook continues
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Cleanup from freight train crash in Northbrook continuesNovember 2, 2009 4:11 AM | 11 Comments | UPDATED STORY Emergency personnel on the scene of the derailment in Northbrook. (Tribune /E. Jason Wambsgans) Cleanup was continuing this morning after a massive freight train derailment Sunday in n...
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CN chief sees freight recovery
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CN chief sees freight recoveryEVANSTON, Ill. -- Canadian National Railway Co. is seeing steady monthly increases in business of 3 to 4 percent, causing Chief Executive Hunter Harrison to turn bullish for a gradual recovery for rail freight hauling, according to the Dow Jones Newswires. Still, he...
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