CN Rail says it set a new weekly grain movement record earlier this month. CN says grain shipments for the week of October 16th reached 806 thousand tons, exceeding the previous record by over 50 thousand metric tons. The record follows CN’s second best September ever for grain movement from Western Canada, with over 2.64 […]
Canadian National Railway Co. says it has gone the extra mile to meet union demands amid a strike by signal and electrical workers, who say the concessions do not go far enough. About 750 CN employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers walked off the job across the country Saturday morning. In an […]
A train has derailed just 3.2 km outside of Edgeley Saskatchewan. Currently RCMP from a few different regions as well as CN rail police are on the scene. A statement from CN rail issued today revealed that 18 cars were a part of the derailment. A source on the ground is reporting that 1 person […]
The Canadian Transportation Agency says CN Rail grain revenue was 2.5 million dollars above its maximum revenue entitlement in the crop year ending August first. CN Rail had record movement of 26 million tons of grain, with revenue of 1.04 billion dollars. CN Rail has 30 days to pay the revenue overage of 2.5 […]
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has released its final report into a fatal accident at the CN rail yard in Melville. On December 22nd, 2017, 26 year-old Melissa Heins was kicking three cars up a short ascending grade, when she noticed they had stopped and begun to roll back uncontrolled. She jumped aboard the […]
CN Rail has set a record amount of grain shipments in May, the third consecutive month for record movement of grain. Executive vice president Sean Finn says CN moved over 2.5 million tons of Western grain in May, exceeding the May 2014 record of 2.4 million tons. “April was a strong month, and then in […]
CN Rail has set a new March record for grain movement. Executive vice president Sean Finn says 2.65-million tons of grain were moved last month, up from the record 2.4-million set in March three years ago. “You can see, we’ve done a pretty good job here,” said Finn. “More importantly, during the month of March, in […]
Residents of the City of Melville have brought forward a list of concerns to CN regarding the rail line through town. Some emergency concerns brought forward were the failure of crossing signals, and unlawful activity at the rail yard. Other concerns the city brought forward were mostly focused on train noise and train whistles along […]
