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Today's Canadian National Railway Company consists of CN proper, the bulk of which operates across Canada between Montreal,Toronto,
and Vancouver, the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, which operates between Detroit,Port Huron,Chicago,Toledo, and Cincinnati,
the Duluth,Winnepeg and Pacific Railway, the Wisconsin Central Railroad, Algoma Central, and the famed Illinois Central Railroad,
long known as the Mainline of MidAmerica. While Canadian National Railway concentrates primarily on the handling of freight,
the railway is also involved in the handling of passenger trains operated by VIA Rail Canada and Amtrak over parts of its
system, as well as the GO Transit commuter trains in the Toronto area. The following shows how the freight car fleet of the
railroad is made up:
Covered Hoppers, 26,709
Tank (company service) 184
Gondola, 10,422
Box,26,888
Flat, 18,598
Open Top Hopper, 5079
Refrigerated 347
Total: 88,227 freight cars
MAJOR TERMINALS; Toronto (MacMillan),Winnipeg,Saskatoon,Regina,Edmonton,Calgary,
Detroit,Chicago (Markham),Champaign,Memphis, Milwaukee,
Stevens Point, Thunder Bay, New Orleans,Vancouver,Montreal.
To pull those freight cars, Canadian National uses1898 locomotives to do the job. These include such new models as SD75Is,
SD70MACs, GE C44-9s, to name a few of the high horsepower locomotives added to the fleet. On a typical day,Canadian National
has approximately 109,767 freight cars on the system every day. These breakdown as follows:
Boxcars, 16,147
Covered Hoppers,37,499
Gondolas,9438
Intermodal,3446
Multilevel,4985
Open top Hopper,4441
Tank(usually shipperowned);25,412
Other,8399 for a total of 109,767 cars of which 45,091 are system cars,14,132 foreign and 50,544 private cars. These
cars are all assembled into the following types of trains:
1.Manifest
2.Multilevel
3.Intermodal
4.Unit Coal
5.Unit grain
A total of 320 mainline trains a day are operated throughout the system,providing freight service to 10,000 customers
systemwide in 700 service zones. 100 locations are where the road trains originate their runs. To better control systemwide
operations,Canadian National is divided into the following operating regions,each essentially a railroad within a railroad
much like prevailed on the late,great Pennsylvania Railroad. The Western Canada Region covers the territory between Prince
Rupert,Prince George,Vancouver,and Winnipeg. EAST CANADA Region covers the Canadian Portion of the railroad between Winnipeg,Toronto,Buffalo,and
Halifax, while the US REGION incompasses the CN's US operations consisting of Wisconsin Central,Illinois Central,Duluth,Winnipeg
& Pacific, Grand Trunk Western,Duluth,Missabe & Iron Range,and Bessemer and Lake Erie railroads and their subsiddiaries.
Edmonton,Alberta is the headquarters for the Western Canada Region while the Eastern Canada Headquarters is in Toronto,Ontario.
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