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	cn rail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		CN redirects here, as it's the most common usage of the abbreviation in Canada; for more uses, see CN (disambiguation).
		The Canadian National Railway (CN), once the largest railway in Canada, is currently one of the largest freight railways in North America.
		However, it can be argued that CN is no longer a Canadian company, as it is primarily owned by American stockholders.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /CN_Rail (427 words)

	Rail
		Junction (rail) A junction, in the context of signalling.
		Rail Road Flat, California Rail Road Flat is a town located in 2000 census, the town had a total population of 549.
		Rail transport In Britain the term railway is often used to refer to the complete organisation of tracks, Rail transport...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/rail.html (1885 words)

	UTU: News
		Paul Tellier, CN's chief executive, stopped just short of calling for BC Rail's sale -- and declined to say if CN would be interested in buying it -- but he told a business luncheon the province could benefit just as the federal government did when CN was privatized in 1995.
		British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell has said that BC Rail is not for sale, but Tellier noted that Campbell has vowed to reduce his government's involvement in private business and both the province and BC Rail have been struggling with large debt loads.
		CN is North America's fifth largest railway in terms of revenues, and operates nearly 29,000 km (18,000 miles) of track.
	www.utu.org /worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=2241 (495 words)

	CN Photos
		CN train 121 (Halifax, NS to Toronto, ON) is lead by Dash 9-44CW number 2589 at St-Philippe-de-Néri, QC (MP 33.6, Montmagny Sub), on June 15, 2002.
		CN 368 is waiting on a siding at Rivière-des-Prairies, MP 132.8 CN St-Laurent Sub, before heading to northern Quebec on a warm June 23rd 2003.
		CN train No 306, which was travelling eastward on the south track at the time, collided with the cars of train 783 as they derailed.
	www.trainweb.org /mrobicha/CN-Photos.htm (567 words)

	CN rail traffic drops as strike drags on (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		CN said the sharp drop in container traffic was cushioned by a 4 percent increase in carload shipments such as grain, forest products or metals and minerals.
		CN will resume contract talks on Friday, at the start of the third week of a strike by 5,000 mechanics, sales clerk and intermodal yard workers.
		CN's network, which is ranked as the most efficient North American railway, stretches across Canada and down through the United States to the Gulf of Mexico.
	blediv70.com /news7.htm (589 words)

	Railway Age: Harrison takes the throttle at CN - Rail Update - Hunter Harrison
		Prior to Harrison's appointment, CN said it would reduce its work force by 1,146 permanent positions "in a renewed drive to improve productivity." Roughly 30% of the reductions will be achieved through normal attrition and retirement, 45% by way of early retirement, and 25% through severance packages.
		CN also said it is adopting an actuarial-based methodology to determine its provision for U.S. personal injury and other' claims, including those for hearing loss, carpal tunnel syndrome, and asbestos-related disease.
		CN said that, together, the two charges will have an after-tax effect on its fourth-quarter 2002 financial results of approximately $252 million.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1215/is_1_204/ai_97447659 (1044 words)

	CBC News:CN acquiring BC Rail for $1 billion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		CN will pick up the shares of Canada's third-largest rail company along with the right to operate on BC Rail's roadbed under a renewable 60-year lease.
		CN said it expects the deal will boost its earnings and cash flow in the first year after the sale.
		CN's shares were down 28 cents to $76.95 on the TSX on Tuesday.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/11/25/bcrail_031125 (361 words)

	Bull Sheet Monthly News
		CN's operating plan in future will require a workforce of 950, including 95 employees who would be surplus were it not for the company's plan to perform new mechanical work at BC Rail's Prince George shops, and 60 employees to be relocated within CN's system in Western Canada.
		CN will finance the transaction with debt and expects it to be accretive to its earnings per share and free cash flow in the first year of BC Rail operation.
		Surplus CN rail yard land would be available for commercial development in the downtown core along First Avenue and for light industry to the north, consistent with the city's official plan and zoning.
	www.bullsheet.com /news/atmpe.html (6549 words)

	CBC News:CN Rail faces possible strike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		MONTREAL - CN Rail is facing the possibility of a strike by 5,500 of its workers as early as midnight Thursday after the workers rejected tentative contract deals worked out last month.
		The CAW, which represents CN's shopcraft, clerical and intermodal yard employees in Canada, told CN it will launch labour action against the railway at midnight Thursday if new tentative agreements aren't reached by then.
		CN said it has contingency plans to keep freight rolling in Canada in the event of a strike.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2004/02/17/cnrail170204 (355 words)

	ipedia.com: Canadian National Railway Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Canadian National Railway (commonly referred to as Canadian National, Canadien National, CN, or CN Rail; formerly referred to as Canadian National Railways or CNR, pre-1960), is the largest freight railway in Canada, both in terms of the size of its track network, and in revenue.
		CN reported a profit in 11 of the 15 years from 1978 to 1992, paying $371 million CDN in cash dividends (profit) to the federal government during this time.
		CN also divested itself during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s of several non-rail transportation activities such as trucking subsidiaries, a hotel chain (sold to CPR), and telecommunications companies, using the proceeds to pay down the company debt.
	www.ipedia.com /canadian_national_railway.html (2451 words)

	CN-Rail-Strike, 1st Writethru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		CN spokesman Mark Hallman said the tentative agreements helped safeguard the company's objective from Day 1 of avoiding a strike.
		CN (TSX:CNR) remains in talks with another six unions whose contracts also expired at the end of last year.
		CN Rail is Canada's largest railway company and a major North American freight hauler, with operations from coast to coast in Canada and down into the U.S. Midwest states to the Gulf of Mexico.
	www.cp.org /english/online/full/Business/040123/b012382A.html (542 words)

	CN Rail's point of view on July derailment - Parry Sound North Star
		CN wants to elaborate on the events surrounding CN’s July 25, 2004, intermodal train derailment northwest of Ardbeg, and subsequent clean-up activities.
		CN has made sincere efforts to mitigate the effects of the derailment on private and Crown lands, and has been in regular contact with landowner David Koene and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment about the progress of these efforts.
		Lastly, the information CN had on the day of the derailment indicated that all of the affected property was Crown land.
	parrysoundnorthstar.com /1096481485 (372 words)

	CN Rail talks resume as strike threatens to spread [Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		CN has called on managers and contractors to keep its operations running, but some 130 locomotive engineers, members of the Teamsters union at CN's terminal in Winnipeg, Manitoba, have threatened to walk out on Friday.
		In a letter sent to CN president and chief executive Hunter Harrison, the Teamsters said a locomotive engineer was injured after his train was hit by a train operated by a manager.
		CN spokesman Mark Hallman denied any safety problems at the Winnipeg terminal or elsewhere on the CN network, which stretches across Canada and down through the United States to the Gulf of Mexico.
	www.ble.org /pr/news/pf_headline.asp?id=9573 (616 words)

	Truck Net Mediator Enters CN Rail Wage Talks As Strike Looms - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		CN, Canada's largest railway and No. 5 in North America by revenues, has said that if there is a strike it hopes to maintain freight services through the use of management personnel.
		Via Rail Canada, the federally owned passenger train service, said on Wednesday it expects its national services to operate normally despite the possibility of a strike at CN.
		CN shares rose 11 Canadian cents to C$79.35 on the Toronto Stock Exchange, but slipped 45 cents to $59.93 in New York on Wednesday.
	www.truck.net /showdetail/rec_id/1485 (479 words)

	UTU: News
		CN officials declined to divulge financial terms, but said they hoped to reach an agreement with the province of Ontario this year and conclude the transaction in the first quarter of 2003.
		CN provides track for passenger rail services across Canada, mainly by federally owned Via Rail, and in the United States for operations such as Amtrak.
		CN also appears interested in BC Rail, Canada's third-largest railway, which is owned by the province of British Columbia.
	www.utu.org /worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=3969 (442 words)

	The Railways of Canada Archives -- Canada Calling June 1998
		Miller is also responsible for northern development and provincially-owned BC Rail Ltd. Export shipments of coal are transported from the Quintette minesite by BC Rail to Prince George and by CN Rail to Ridley Island Terminal at Prince Rupert.
		This agreement demonstrates that CN and BC Rail recognize the continued importance of northeast coal to the economy of northern British Columbia, the workers and families of Tumbler Ridge, the port of Prince Rupert and the ongoing operations of these two rail companies.
		Rail traffic on the main CP Rail line between Sudbury and Toronto was halted by a washout which occurred sometime on April 2, 1998 about 20 kilometres south of Bala.
	www.trainweb.org /canadianrailways/CanadaCalling/June1998.html (6853 words)

	Canadian National Railway News
		CN says the lack of disclosure about a cancer-causing chemical in the derailment was the result of poor communication, not deliberate withholding of information.
		CN officials are looking at a faulty section of track as the possible cause of oil spill.
		CN Rail says no one was hurt when a train derailed in the B.C. interior Monday.
	www.railserve.com /railnews/canadiannational_news.html (2247 words)

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		Rail Transport Vehicle Allocation (BSF) Rail Transport Vehicle Allocation is responsible for assessing the short term supply requirements and balancing the rail transport vehicles and conveyance units among all terminal in CN North America's network.
		CN P&D Operations (BSF) CN P & D Operations is responsible for assigning and dispatching pickup and delivery resources to meet the customer and partner pickup and delivery schedules.
		CN's rail network is expanded by strategic alliances with other rail roads, which provide CN North America with the capability of offering services outside its own rail network.
	www.omg.org /docs/transprt/97-05-01.doc (7587 words)

	CN Rail Still Targeted for Strike
		Canadian National Railway Co. (CN) is currently in the midst of negotiations in Canada with United Transportation Union (UTU), the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).
		CN, which operates both in Canada and the U.S., recently signed a tentative labour agreement with United Steelworkers of America (USWA), one of CN’s unions, but this agreement has little impact on CN’s other unions.
		Because the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) has determined that certain minimum levels of rail service must be maintained during a strike or lockout of train crews or engineers, CN will not shut down its operations completely.
	www.ftn.fedex.com /cndbulletin/012005.htm (268 words)

	CAW Confirms Strike for CN Rail Workers (washingtonpost.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		CN has said it has contingency plans to keep moving freight in Canada in the event of a strike, and the CAW has pledged not to interrupt passenger services such as the GO Transit system in the Toronto region, commuter trains in Montreal and Via Rail service.
		CN is Canada's largest railway company and a major North American freight hauler.
		Last year, CN moved about 4.2 million carloads of freight across Canada and through the U.S. Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A56172-2004Feb19.html (392 words)

	CTV.ca \| Trains still moving despite CN Rail strike
		CN Rail managers are keeping the trains moving today, after close to 5,000 workers went on strike after talks failed to solve a contract dispute.
		But CN rail said labour negotiations aren't expected to resume at this point.
		Mark Hallman, a spokesman for CN, said managers are taking over the jobs normally done by the striking workers in order to keep the freight trains moving.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1077276998275_91?hub=Canada (409 words)

	Destination : Freedom Newsletter - December 1, 2003
		CN’s operating plan will require a workforce of 950, including 95 employees who would be surplus were it not for the company’s plan to perform new mechanical work at BC Rail’s Prince George shops, and 60 employees to be relocated within CN’s system in Western Canada.
		CN will finance the transaction with debt and expects it to be accretive to its earnings per share and free cash flow in the first year of BC Rail operation,” the firm stated in a press release.
		CN’s operating plan calls for a combined CN/BC Rail workforce of 580 in Prince George by the third year of its operation of BC Rail, resulting in 25 BC Rail lobs lost.
	www.nationalcorridors.org /df/df12012003.shtml (5913 words)

	STRAIGHT TRACK
		CN stock, which has lost 6.5 percent since the strike began, gained 31 Canadian cents, or 0.6 percent, to C$51.40 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Monday amid a broad-based selloff.
		CN managers and contractors stepped in to help with the workload and, by the second full-week of the strike, overall traffic was down only 5 percent.
		Also this morning, CN and the CAW reached a settlement for the Owner-Operators, a unit of 400 intermodal truck drivers who were not on strike.
	radio.weblogs.com /0118868/categories/straightTrack/2004/03/17.html (2126 words)

	CN Rail and CAW satisfied after tentative deals for 5,000 employees [Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		CN Rail and CAW satisfied after tentative deals for 5,000 employees [Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen]
		MONTREAL -- CN Rail and the Canadian Auto Workers (news - web sites) expressed satisfaction Friday after the two sides reached tentative contract deals the union says will give 5,000 employees pay hikes and improved benefits for shift and weekend work.
		CN remains in talks with another six unions whose contracts also expired at the end of last year.
	www.ble.org /pr/news/pf_headline.asp?id=9263 (582 words)

	Forbes.com: CN Rail sees 122 layoffs at Great Lakes Transport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		CN, Canada's largest railway and North America's No. 5, said most of the layoffs, which represent 12 percent of Great Lakes total workforce, will be among administrative workers.
		CN had said earlier it expected the integration of Great Lakes to add C$285 million to its annual revenues of more than C$6 billion.
		CN also said the acquisition would boost its annual profit by 10 Canadian cents a share in the first three years, and then by 20 Canadian cents once all the cost cuts have been made.
	www.forbes.com /newswire/2003/11/05/rtr1137180.html (382 words)

	CN Rail Train Vibration Impact Study - Kamloops, BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This study was commissioned in response to Kamloops residents' complaints of physical damage to buildings and the reuslting loss of property value due to railway induced ground vibration.
		The CN Rail main line had been recently double-tracked, and the new track was reportedly responsible for increased vibration at houses within a few hundred metres of the right-of-way.
		We were retained to assess the extent and perception of vibration disturbances in the community and provide some insight into the source mechanism.
	www.bkla.com /trainvibration.htm (277 words)

	The Map Room: CN Rail Maps
		CN has an interactive map of their rail network on their site.
		There’s also a series of maps in their shortlines section — shortlines being small railroads formed after a big railroad like CN has sold off parts of its network.
		A couple of railroad-related posts at The Map Room, noted here for the sake of completeness in the “Rail” category.
	www.mcwetboy.net /maproom/2004/02/cn_rail_maps.phtml (175 words)

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