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20 unusual facts about Canadian National Railway


Benito, Manitoba

In 1905, the Canadian National Railway went through, and the hamlet of Benito slowly grew and was incorporated as a village in 1941.

Canadian National 3254

In 1918, the Canadian Government Railways combined with the Canadian Northern Railway formed the Canadian National Railways.

Canadian National 47

The #47 was built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in September 1914 for the Grand Trunk Railway as its number 1542, class K2, but became a CN locomotive after the creation of the Canadian National Railway in 1923.

Claude Mongeau

Claude Mongeau is a Canadian railroad executive who has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Canadian National Railway (CNR) since January 1, 2010, succeeding Hunter Harrison.

CN 6077

Canadian National Railways 6077 is a preserved 4-8-2 locomotive of Canadian National Railways U-1-f class, which were nicknamed Bullet Nosed Bettys.

E. Hunter Harrison

Following the acquisition of IC by Canadian National Railway (CN) in 1998, Harrison was appointed Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer by CN.

Eddie Carpenter

About 1945, he moved to Winnipeg, and in approximately 1954 he retired from his job as a locomotive engineer, having worked for the Canadian National Railways.

Gaspé, Quebec

This Cross of Gaspé that weighs more than 42 tons, was transported by two railcars of the Canadian National Railway from Rivière-à-Pierre.

Harold Lawrence

He worked as a railroad accountant for the Canadian National Railway, and became involved in the provincial labour movement in 1915.

L. E. Timberlake

Timberlake began his working career between 1916 and 1920 as a railroad agent for the Canadian National Railway.

Macomb Orchard Trail

It is built on the right-of-way of an early Michigan railroad, the Michigan Air Line Railway, later owned and operated by Canadian National Railway.

Maurice LeClair

In 1979, he joined the Canadian National Railway as a Corporate Vice President becoming President and Chief Executive Officer from 1982 to 1986.

Neal Herbert Hardy

He was born in Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan and worked for the Canadian National Railway, as well as owning and operating several businesses.

Ottawa Valley Railway

The OVR interchanges with the Canadian Pacific at Sudbury, as well as with the Canadian National Railway at North Bay, Ontario, the Ontario Northland Railroad at North Bay, and the Huron Central Railway at Sudbury.

Progressive Conservative leadership election, 1976

He was defeated in the 1979 election, and was later appointed to the board of directors of the Canadian National Railway when Trudeau was returned to power in 1980.

Quebec Southern Railway

Quebec Southern Railway (1900–1906), predecessor of the Delaware and Hudson Company subsidiary Quebec, Montreal and Southern Railway, which later became part of the Canadian National Railway

Rail transport in Canada

There are two major publicly traded transcontinental freight railway systems, the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railway.

Saint-Constant, Quebec

Saint-Constant was transformed the construction of the Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Trans Canada Trail

Moreover, considerable parts of the Trail are repurposed defunct rail lines donated to provincial governments by CP and CN rail rebuilt as walking trails.

Vaudreuil-Dorion

The CN and CP rail links between Toronto and Montreal are located in Dorion.


Ashcroft Terminal

Located 340 km east of Vancouver and 90 km west of Kamloops, Ashcroft Terminal is situated on mainlines for both Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and Canadian National Railway (CN).

Brent, Ontario

It later became a Canadian National Railway divisional point between the Alderdale Subdivision to the west and the CN Beachburg Subdivision to the east; the next railway points were Government Park to the west and Acanthus to the east.

Canadian American Railroad

Owning this section gave JDI access to interchange points with Canadian National Railway (CN) at Saint John, New Brunswick, Guilford Rail System at Mattawamkeag, Maine, and Bangor & Aroostook Railroad (BAR) at Brownville Junction, ME.

East Troy Electric Railroad

The railway itself is a standard gauge common carrier railroad that operates in interchange with Canadian National Railway (formerly a connection to Wisconsin Central Ltd.) This gives the East Troy electric railroad the ability to pick up and deliver freight (including fertilizer for the Farmers Co-op, sand for the local Ready-Mix, and lumber and steel tubing) to the village of East Troy.

GMD GF6C

The line served the Quintette and Bull-Moose coal mines, and hauled coal from said mines to an interchange with CN, where diesel power took over to haul the coal to Prince Rupert where it was loaded onto deep-sea coal carrier ships.

John H. Boylan

He was raised and educated in Brighton, Vermont, and was employed as a general storekeeper (matériel manager) for the Central Vermont, Canadian National and Grand Trunk railroads.

Kapuskasing River

The Kapuskasing River continues northeast over the White Otter Falls, the Bakatase Falls, the Camp Three Rapids and the Big Beaver Falls, takes in the right tributary Saganash River and reaches the town of Kapuskasing, where it is crossed by Ontario Highway 11 and the Ontario Northland Railway line (formerly Canadian National Railway, originally the National Transcontinental Railway).

Keele Street

While Keele originally ran straight north, today there is a brief cut-off to deviate around the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railway corridors, near the former Canada Packers stock yards.

Kenogami River

It passes under Ontario Highway 11 and the Canadian National Railway (CNR) transcontinental main line (used at this point by Via Rail transcontinental Canadian trains) into geographic Bain Township in Unorganized Thunder Bay District, takes in the left tributaries Kenogamisis River and Burrows River, and reaches the Kenogami Lake Dam.

Lake Pohenegamook

The National Transcontinental Railway constructed its mainline from Winnipeg to Moncton along the western and southern shores in 1912 - today this line forms the mainline of CN Rail between Halifax and Montreal.

Melville-Saltcoats

It is also a major transportation hub, with provincial Highways 10, 15, and 47 running through the city – as well as the Canadian National Railway mainline.

Montrose, Edmonton

It is bounded on the north by the Yellowhead Trail, on the west by the Canadian National Railway right of way and the north east line of the Edmonton Transit System's LRT system, on the south by 118 (Alberta) Avenue, and on the east by 58 Street.

Parkdale, Edmonton

The neighbourhood is bounded on the south by 112 Avenue, on the north by 118 Avenue, on the west by 89 Street, and on the east by the Canadian National Railway right of way and the city's north east LRT line.

Robert H. Lee

He also is a member of YMCA Vancouver and serves as a director of Crown Life Insurance, Canadian National Railway and Wall Financial Corporation.

Routhierville, Quebec

The community of Routhierville is located on the west bank of the Matapédia River along the Canadian National Railway that was originally constructed as the Intercolonial Railway in the 1860s, while its train station was built in 1878.

Schneider National

Schneider National's Intermodal department works directly with the major North American rail carriers, including the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, Norfolk Southern Railway, CSX Transportation, Kansas City Southern Railway, Kansas City Southern de México, and Canadian National Railway.

Seguin Falls

The OA&PS Railway through Seguin Falls, locally known as the Grand Trunk was taken over by the Grand Trunk Railway in 1904, which was subsequently absorbed by Canadian National Railways in 1923.

Simcoe Street Tunnel

Morrison Hershfield the project managers, designers, contract administrators and site engineers, worked with the railway companies including Via Rail, CNR, Amtrak and Go Transit to ensure the services of 177 daily scheduled trains that passed over the tunnel were maintained.

Snow Trac

Approximately 200 Snow Tracs ended up at the Canadian National Railway, and Snow Tracs were also located at each of the microwave sites along the length of the ALCAN (Alaska Canadian Highway).

Wade Hemsworth

He subsequently moved to Montreal in 1952, where he worked as a draftsman for the Canadian National Railway, and performed in the city's folk music clubs at night.