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CN Launches New Medium Horsepower Hybrid Locomotive Pilot Project

January 16, 2025 Railfanning.org News Wire

CN has launched a new medium horsepower hybrid electric locomotive developed in collaboration with Knoxville Locomotive Works.

Canadian Pacific Sends Unsolicited Proposal to Acquire Kansas City Southern

August 11, 2021 Railfanning.org News Wire

Canadian Pacific Railway has sent an unsolicited proposal to acquire Kansas City Southern.

CN Makes Unsolicited Bid to Acquire Kansas City Southern Following CP Deal

April 21, 2021 Railfanning.org News Wire

Canadian National Railway submitted an unsolicited proposal to acquire Kansas City Southern in a cash and stock transaction valued by CN at $325 per KCS share.

CN, Watco Reach Agreement on Sale of Tracks in United States, Canada

March 30, 2021 Railfanning.org News Wire

CN and Watco have reached an agreement to sell approximately 250 miles of “non-core lines and assets” on the Soo subdivision.

Canadian Pacific to Acquire Kansas City Southern

March 22, 2021 Railfanning.org News Wire

Canadian Pacific Railway and Kansas City Southern announced their intention to merge, a move they say will create the first Canada-to-Mexico rail network.

CN Marks Quarter-Century Since Privatization

November 17, 2020 Railfanning.org News Wire

On Nov. 17, 1995, the Canadian government listed CN on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). At the time, the railroad was the largest and the oldest Crown Corporation in Canada.

VIA Rail Train Derails in Saskatchewan, All Passengers Reported Safe

July 5, 2018 Railfanning.org News Wire

A VIA Rail train running between Winnipeg and The Pas derailed about 23 miles north of Hudson Bay, the railroad said.

TTC Will Not Cancel Streetcar Order After Welding Problem Discovered

July 5, 2018 Todd DeFeo

The TTC must return three quarters — 67 — of the 89 streetcars Bombardier has already delivered.

Canadian Authorities Arrests Two on Terrorism-Related Charges

April 22, 2013 Railfanning.org News Wire

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on April 22 arrested two people in connection “with conspiring to carry out a terrorist attack against a VIA passenger train,” the law enforcement agency said.

CN Sells Oakville-Burlington, Ont., Line Segment to Metrolinx

March 23, 2013 Railfanning.org News Wire

CN today closed the sale of a segment of rail line principally used by GO Transit commuter trains in the Oakville-Burlington, Ont., area west of Toronto to Metrolinx for C$52.5 million.