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To report signal malfunctions or other safety concerns, contact our CN Police. The number below is a 24/7 service. 1-800-465-9239. Public Inquiries. To learn about CN's involvement in the community, what it is like to live near the railway or for general inquiries, email Public Inquiries. 1-888-888-5909. Human Resources.
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The Canadian National Railway Company [a] (French: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) (reporting mark CN) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.
- Cn Predecessors
- Nationalization
- The Great Depression
- Modernization and Diversification
- Refocusing on Rail
- Privatization
The Grand Trunk was itself an amalgamation of various smaller lines, including the 23.2 km Champlain and Saint Lawrence Railroad (1836), which connected Montréal with boat traffic to Lake Champlain and the port of New York; the Great Western Railway linking Niagara, Hamilton and Toronto with Windsor and Sarnia; and the St Lawrence and Atlantic Rail...
By 1919, the Intercolonial, Canadian Northern, National Transcontinental and Grand Trunk Pacific had become part of a government railway system known as the Canadian National Railways (CN). In January 1923, the Grand Trunk Railway officially became part of this system. At around the same time, Sir Henry Thornton was appointed president of CN. Despi...
Economic depression in the 1930s reduced traffic volume, leading to cuts in wages and dismissal of employees (see Great Depression ). At the same time, highway and air travel diverted traffic away from the railway. In 1937, however, under C. D. Howe as minister of transport, CN organized formation of Trans-Canada Airlines (now Air Canada), and in 1...
In the 1950s and 1960s, CN was modernized under the dynamic presidency of Donald Gordon, who rationalized (or reorganized) 80 subsidiary companies down to 30. Gordon also directed the conversion to diesel locomotives and electronic signalling and moved the head office to Montréal. By the end of the 1970s, CN had merged its own system of telecommuni...
In the late 1970s, CN started to divest itself of non-rail businesses, including real estate, hotels, and CNCP Telecommunications. Around the same time, Air Canada and VIA Rail, CN’s passenger train subsidiary, became separate Crown corporations (shortly after incorporation, VIA also took over passenger rail services from Canadian Pacific). By 1989...
From the mid-1980s, there was increasing talk about privatizing CN. As a railway company, CN required significant capital investment on an ongoing basis. Politically, ownership by the federal government often influenced high-level appointments with at least as much respect for partisan interest as for “handsoff”direction. In Canada (as in Britain u...
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Canadian National Railway. The Canadian National Railway Company (French: Compagnie des Chemins de Fer Nationaux du Canada) is a Class I railway. Its headquarters are in Montreal, Quebec. It serves Canada and both the Midwestern and Southern United States.
