Canadian National Railway
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Canadian National system map
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A Canadian National EMD SD70M-2 unit in Chicago, Illinois.
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| Reporting mark | CN |
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Canada United States |
| Dates of operation | December 20, 1918–present |
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) (standard gauge) |
| Previous gauge | 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) (narrow gauge) on trackage in Prince Edward Island until 1930 and in Newfoundland until September 1988 |
| Length | 20,400 mi (32,831 km) |
| Website | www |
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| Traded as | : CNR : CNI |
| Industry | Rail transport |
| Founded | December 20, 1918 |
| Headquarters | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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Area served
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Canada Contiguous United States |
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Key people
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Robert Pace, D. Comm. (Chairman) Luc Jobin (President & CEO) |
| CAD$ 12.611 billion (2015) | |
| Owner | Cascade Investment (12%) |
| Website | www |
The Canadian National Railway Company (reporting mark CN) is a Canadian Class I railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec that serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN's slogan is "North America's Railroad". CN is a public company with 24,000 employees. It had a market capitalization of 32 billion CAD in 2011. CN was government-owned, having been a Canadian Crown corporation from its founding to its privatization in 1995. Bill Gates was, in 2011, the largest single shareholder of CN stock.
CN is the largest railway in Canada, in terms of both revenue and the physical size of its rail network, and is currently Canada's only transcontinental railway company, spanning Canada from the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia to the Pacific coast in British Columbia. Its range once reached across the island of Newfoundland until 1988, when the Newfoundland Railway was abandoned.
Following CN's purchase of Illinois Central (IC) and a number of smaller US railways, it also has extensive trackage in the central United States along the Mississippi River valley from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Today, CN owns about 20,400 route miles (32,831 km) of track in 8 provinces (the only two not served by CN are Newfoundland & Labrador and Prince Edward Island), as well as a 70-mile (113 km) stretch of track (see Mackenzie Northern Railway) into the Northwest Territories to Hay River on the southern shore of Great Slave Lake; it is the northernmost rail line anywhere within the North American Rail Network, as far north as Anchorage, Alaska (although the Alaska Railroad goes further north than this, it is isolated from the rest of the rail network).
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