Canadian National Railway News

Looking north on LaGrange Road at 171st Street, excavation work to widen LaGrange continues, with temporary traffic signals strung across the intersection.

Canada needs to invest in shipping more grains and oilseeds off the West Coast as harvests get larger, to avoid the massive transportation backlogs that followed last year's record crops, industry officials said on Wednesday.

Grain companies, at risk of not being able to get their product to customers because of a massive railroad bottleneck, have pressured the Canadian government to issue emergency measures and introduce legislation that would force the two railways to move a minimum volume of grain per week.

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Northern Lights Rail is in the final stages of acquiring 56 kilometres of Canadian National Railway track, stretching from Melfort, Sask., to Birch Hills.a © Northern Lights organizer Wayne Bacon said the short-line group is hoping to take ownership of the line later this year.a © With the board's endorsement, the plan would be sent to ... (more)

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City Administrator Randy Reeg says he first noticed the train around 7:30 a.m. Thursday on a Canadian National Railway track that goes through town.

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The president of Canadian National Railway is criticizing the federal government for over-regulating railways based on an unusually cold winter and a bumper grain crop.

Conditions for railroad operations in the U.S. do not look as good as on the other side of the Great Lakes.

Western Canadian farmers harvested a record amount of grain in 2013 but much of it hasn't moved.

Shares of Canadian National Railway have earned a consensus rating of "Hold" from the twenty-three analysts that are presently covering the company, Stock Ratings News reports .

Canada is being home to one of the hottest transport debates seen in the last decade.

Rail cars sit at a Canadian National Railway yard in Hamilton. Shipping crude across North America in railway cars is a booming business for North America's railways.

Some industry stakeholders are praising the Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act, suggesting it will increase supply chain transparency, enhance railway competition and ensure that more prairie grain is moved to market in a timely manner.

'The reality is, if you look at a map, all of our business goes through Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal,' Canadian National CEO Claude Mongeau says.

The head of Canadian National Railway Co. is warning that the country's grain terminals, elevators and ports cannot cope with the number of rail cars needed to fulfill a government order to move more of the commodity.

In the wake of a recent train derailment and frequently blocked crossings, Will County is looking at building an overpass at Gougar Road at the Canadian National Railway tracks.

Traffic at the intersection of Rand and Ela roads was snarled Monday morning after a truck carrying a crane boom struck and got caught under the Canadian National Railway overpass.

CP's chief executive Hunter Harrison decried the speed and lack of consultation before the government changed the rail transportation system, that could result in "unintended consequences."