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CN's railway network in the late 1980s consisted of the company's Canadian trackage, along with the following U. S. subsidiary lines: Grand Trunk Western Railroad ( GTW ) operating in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois ; Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway ( DWP ) operating in Minnesota ; Central Vermont Railway ( CV ) operating down the Connecticut River valley from Quebec to Long Island Sound ; and a former GT line to Portland, Maine, known informally as the Grand Trunk Eastern, sold to a short-line operator in 1989.
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This single purchase of IC transformed CN's entire corporate focus from being an east-west uniting presence within Canada ( sometimes to the detriment of logical business models ) into a north-south NAFTA railway ( in reference to the North American Free Trade Agreement ).
Restructuring applied to operations which lost money and required subsidization, or which were not part of CN's core freight railway business.
Passenger rail services were transferred to the new Crown corporation, Via Rail, and in 1979, all of CN's freight railway operations on Newfoundland, along with the CN Roadcruiser Bus service and CN's trucking operation, were placed into a new division named Terra Transport.
CN's operations in Newfoundland revolved around the former Newfoundland Railway, which was the longest narrow gauge railway in North America, stretching approximately 1000 km across the island, from the ferry terminal in Port aux Basques to the provincial capital at St. John's.
CN's operation of dedicated railway car ferries was an additional expense.
On 31 December 1989, Cape Tormentine witnessed the last train arriving from Prince Edward Island, following CN's abandonment of that province's railway service ( see Prince Edward Island Railway ); this also marked the date of the last train in Cape Tormentine.
CN's and network
Following CN's privatization in 1995, the company undertook a network rationalization program which made the IRC line between Moncton and Rivière-du-Loup, along with its trackage on the Gaspé Peninsula, redundant and it was sold in 1998 to short line operator Quebec Railway Corporation which now operates the New Brunswick East Coast Railway and associated subsidiaries.
The majority of CN's former CNoR branchline network across Canada has either been abandoned or sold to shortline operators.
Irving Ltd directing a certain portion of rail traffic from its various subsidiary companies onto CN's network.
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CN's former H & SW lines on Nova Scotia's South Shore and in the Annapolis Valley were proving uneconomic by the early 1980s, even for freight service.
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On November 30, 2004, CN announced that the new St. Clair River tunnel would be named the Paul M. Tellier Tunnel in honour of the company's retired president, Paul Tellier, who foresaw the impact the tunnel would have on CN's eastern freight corridor.
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The Grand Trunk Western Railroad ( reporting mark GTW ) is an important subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway ( CN ), constituting the majority of CN's Chicago Division ( itself part of CN's Southern Region ).
The merger announcement by CN's Paul Tellier and BNSF's Robert Krebs was greeted with skepticism by the U. S. government's Surface Transportation Board ( STB ), and protested by other major North American rail companies, namely Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ) and Union Pacific Railroad ( UP ).
CPR purchased CN's hotel chain in 1988, making Canadian Pacific Hotels and Resorts ( CP Hotels ) the nation's largest hotel owner.
When the Grand Trunk became part of the Canadian National Railway in 1923, the Château Laurier became one of CN's most important hotels.
Cynics of CN's decision have noted that residents of Prince Edward Island voted completely in favour of the opposition Liberals in the 1988 Canadian federal election, which may have possibly tipped the government's hand in not attempting to preserve federally-subsidized rail service in the province.
Today, the majority of the GTPR is still in use as CN's ( name change to Canadian National or acronym CN in 1960 ) main line from Winnipeg to Jasper.
West of Jasper, CN's main line swings south on the former Canadian Northern Railway ( CNoR ) to Vancouver, however the GTPR line to Prince Rupert forms an important CN secondary main line.
In 2004 the B & LE came under the ownership of the Canadian National Railway as part of CN's larger purchase of holding company Great Lakes Transportation.
Wisconsin Central Ltd. was acquired by Canadian National on October 9, 2001, whereupon the Algoma Central became part of CN's Eastern Division.
* October 22 – Canadian National Railway ( CN ) announces that it will open shipping offices in Shanghai and Beijing ; the office will advertise CN's shipping abilities to North American destinations, especially on the Pacific coast.
CN's and trackage
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.
In 2002 NBSR entered into a 10 year agreement with CN that saw NBSR extend its operations onto CN's industrial trackage in the east end of Saint John including the Island Yard in exchange for J. D.
In the early 1990s even this trackage was eliminated as Michelin began to use trucks to service its plant and CN's last remaining customer in Lunenburg County was the forest products company at East River.
They took possession of a section of former CN Rail branch line trackage which ran from CN's Moncton-Saint John mainline at Salisbury east to just beyond the village of Hillsborough, approximately away.
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The TurboTrain, or simply " Turbo " as CN preferred, was CN's first attempt to provide higher speeds along the Corridor.
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The residents of Wabamun Lake, in Alberta, staged a blockade of CN tracks in August 2005, when they were unsatisfied with CN's response to a derailment catastrophe that spilled over 700, 000 Litres of tarry fuel oil and about 80, 000 L of carcinogenic pole treatment oil into the lake.
It shared CN's herald styles with its own name on the previous " tilted herald " and " Maple Leaf " logos.
The episodes then made their " official " premiere on April 13, 2004, on CN's Toonami spinoff block, the Saturday Video Entertainment System ( SVES ) with fewer edits as well as episodes 4 and 5.
Its successor, the Windsor and Hantsport Railway, began operations on August 27, 1994, maintaining service on the remnants of the DAR between Windsor and New Minas, including the remnant of the Truro Subdivision that served the large open pit gypsum mines several miles east of Windsor, as well as operating the " Windsor Branch " to Windsor Junction where the system had a connection with CN's mainline between Halifax and Montreal.
The monocoque aluminum coaches were particularly noteworthy ; they weighted empty, about one-third less than CN's existing fleet, and were somewhat lighter than the Amfleet coaches being introduced at the same time in the U. S. They were built around two aluminum girders running the length of the car, providing them with the high strength needed to meet the more stringent North American crash standards, while still being competitive with similar designs from Europe.
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The following year ( 1978 ), the federal government decided to create Via Rail as a separate Crown corporation to take over passenger services previously offered by both CN and CPR, including CN's flagship transcontinental train the Super Continental and its eastern counterpart the Ocean.
In CN's case, some of these branch lines were those it had been forced to absorb through federal government policies and outright patronage, while others were from the heady expansion era of rural branchlines in the 1920s and early 1930s and were considered obsolete following the development of local road networks.
The DWP line is CN's connection between International Falls and Duluth, Minnesota, where the railroad connects to a short stretch of the former Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway before following the former Wisconsin Central ( both now wholly owned by CN ) to Chicago, Illinois.
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This was later rejected by the federal government, whereby CPR offered to purchase outright all of CN's lines from Ontario to Nova Scotia, while an unidentified U. S. railroad ( rumoured to have been Burlington Northern Railroad ) would purchase CN's lines in western Canada.
On November 25, 2003, it was announced that CN's bid of $ 1 billion CAD would be accepted over those of CPR and several U. S. companies.
Grand Trunk Corporation, now formerly headquartered at CN in Montreal, is the holding company for almost all of CN's U. S. properties which include Grand Trunk Western, Illinois Central, Wisconsin Central, Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific and Great Lakes Transportation which includes the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad ( B & LE ) and the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway ( DMIR.
It acquired control of CN's U. S. properties ; Grand Trunk Western, Central Vermont Railway and the Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway in December 1971, and has since acquired other companies, mostly through acquisitions of other holding companies: Illinois Central Corporation ( IC ) in 1999, Wisconsin Central Transportation Corporation ( WC ) in 2001, Great Lakes Transportation in 2004, and Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway in 2008.
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The only passenger services run by CN after 1978 were several mixed trains ( freight and passenger ) in Newfoundland, and a couple of commuter trains on CN's electrified routes in the Montreal area.
CN's rise to profitability was assisted when the company started to remove itself from non-core freight rail transportation starting in 1977 when subsidiary Air Canada ( created in 1937 as Trans-Canada Air Lines ) became a separate federal Crown corporation.
All proceeds from such sales were used to pay down CN's accumulated debt.
At the time of their divestitures, all of these subsidiaries required considerable subsidies, which partly explained CN's financial problems prior to recapitalization.
On December 24, 2008, the STB approved CN's purchase for $ 300 million of the principal lines of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Company ( EJ & E ) ( reporting mark EJE ) from US Steel Corp originally announced on September 27, 2007.
The train derailed at a broken rail caused by a defective weld ; the report by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada called into question CN's quality assurance program for rail welds as well as the lack of detection equipment for defective wheels.
A further derailment at Moran, twenty miles ( 32 km ) north of Lillooet, on June 30, 2006, has raised more questions about CN's safety policies.
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