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Vancouver and Prince Rupert are dynamic, world‑class gateways that give Canada a competitive edge, particularly through shorter transit times to Asia. At the Port of Vancouver, CN serves major coal, grain, and container terminals, supporting some of the country’s most critical export flows. Across the Vancouver region—where more than 900 CN employees live and work—CN’s footprint includes multiple distribution centres for forest products, metals, and automotive traffic, as well as CN CargoFlo®, a bulk handling facility. Together, these assets support diversified trade moving efficiently through the Lower Mainland. Surrey plays a key role within this corridor, home to Thornton Yard, the Vancouver Intermodal Terminal, CNTL Trucking and major repair facilities that help maintain system fluidity.
In Northern British Columbia, Prince Rupert and Prince George are equally strategic to Canada’s trade network. Prince George, home to more than 600 CN employees, anchors inland connectivity with an intermodal terminal, forest products distribution facilities, and locomotive and railcar repair shops that keep the network moving.
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CN handles intermodal container traffic through our Edmonton and Calgary terminals. In Edmonton, where more than 3,300 CN railroaders live and work, we have automotive distribution and CargoFlo® bulk handling facilities as well as metals and forest products distribution centres. In Calgary, which over 300 CN employees call home, you’ll find our logistics park, automotive, metals and forest products distribution centres, and a CargoFlo® bulk handling facility. Edmonton and Calgary are also home to major rail classification yards. CN maintains large railcar and locomotive repair shops at Edmonton’s Walker Yard. In Fort McMurray, there’s a metals distribution centre and a CargoFlo® facility. We also have another forest products distribution centre in Edson.
We continue to make significant investments in our corridors between Edmonton and West Coast ports to support growth in propane, chemicals and other refined petroleum products. The Government of Alberta’s incentive programs are encouraging the development of new petrochemical facilities in the province. For example, Dow is building a net‑zero facility near Edmonton in the Alberta Industrial Heartland with direct access to CN’s route to Prince Rupert. The facility will produce 3.2 million metric tonnes of polyethylene and ethylene derivatives.
Grains and fertilizers, especially potash, make up most of the traffic handled by CN in this Prairie province. Our traffic also reflects the increasing diversification of the Saskatchewan economy by handling growing volumes of consumer goods and specialty crops through our intermodal terminal in Saskatoon and Canada’s first privately operated intermodal terminal in Regina. Both Saskatoon and Bienfait boast metals distribution facilities. Saskatoon, where almost 500 CN railroaders live and work, also has an automotive distribution centre. Melville is home to CN’s largest rail classification yard in Saskatchewan and has close to 400 CN employees. Finally, in North Battleford, we have a forest products distribution facility
Manitoba is a major hub in CN’s transcontinental rail network. Much of our traffic passes through Winnipeg’s Symington Yard, our only hump yard in Western Canada. Winnipeg is also home to Transcona Shops, our main Canadian heavy railcar and locomotive repair facility, and our rail plant. More than 2,200 CN railroaders live and work in Winnipeg, where we also have CargoFlo® bulk handling and automotive distribution facilities, and an intermodal terminal.
CN’s state‑of‑the‑art Claude Mongeau National Training Centre in Winnipeg is focused on instilling and reinforcing a strong safety culture in our new hires, experienced railroaders and customers who received a complete range of hands‑on technical training. Manitoba is the only Canadian province to enact Rail Safety Week into law, a most significant accomplishment that CN is extremely supportive of.
Large volumes of traffic are handled in Ontario, much of it at MacMillan Yard — CN’s largest rail classification facility and our only hump yard in Eastern Canada. Mac Yard also has railcar and locomotive repair shops. Intermodal containers are handled at CN’s biggest terminal in Brampton as well as another nearby. The Toronto area, which is home to over 3,000 CN railroaders, also boasts a distribution facility for automobiles, one for forest products, two for metals, a logistics park, and two CargoFlo® bulk handling facilities. In addition, CN has a forest products distribution centre in Brockville and one for autos in Windsor.
Our extensive rail network stretches across Quebec. Montreal is home to CN’s headquarters and over 3,200 employees as well as a major rail classification yard and repair shops. CN serves the Port of Montreal, where we handle growing numbers of import/export containers. We also have an intermodal terminal in Saint Laurent. Other CN facilities in Montreal include a logistics park, forest products, automotive and metals distribution centres, and a CargoFlo® bulk handling facility. Quebec City, where almost 350 CN railroaders live and work, boasts automotive and forest products distribution centres as well as a large rail classification yard.
CN handles consumer goods and other intermodal traffic through our terminal in Moncton, where more than 250 CN railroaders live and work. Other CN facilities in Moncton include a major rail classification yard as well as automotive and forest products distribution centres and a CargoFlo® bulk handling facility. CN’s network extends to the ports of Belledune and Saint John, which are both well positioned to play key roles in growing Canada’s economy, bolstering supply chains and diversifying our trade partners and markets Bulk and liquid bulk customers in the Grand Falls region will benefit from a newly‑completed third‑party transload facility.
In partnership with the Port of Saint John, CN is committed to enabling supply chains and facilitating business in Atlantic Canada. Our weekly CN IntelliGen Genset Service moves temperature‑sensitive goods between Saint John, NB, and Brampton, ON. CN continues to develop rail service between northern New Brunswick and Moncton to capture new volumes and new customers in the province.
Nova Scotia is home to the Port of Halifax, where CN handles all rail served containers imported and exported through the marine facility. Halifax Regional Municipality, home to more than 300 CN employees, also hosts Autoport in Eastern Passage, where automotive vehicles imported from overseas enter North America for distribution across the continent. One of our intermodal terminals is also located in Halifax.
Minnesota is an important gateway from Canada into the U.S. via Ranier and then south to the port city of Duluth on Lake Superior. Turning west near Longwood, WI, CN’s track heads toward Minneapolis–Saint Paul, one of the top 15 markets in the U.S.
The North Star State is home to CN’s Iron Ore Supply Chain, which brings taconite pellets from the Minnesota Iron Range mines to the CN docks in Duluth and Two Harbors. There, the pellets are loaded onto Great Lakes ships for transport to the lower Great Lakes.
CN’s major facilities in Minnesota include a rail classification yard and railcar/locomotive repair shop in Proctor, a yard near the Two Harbors iron ore dock, and the Duluth iron ore dock itself. There is also a yard in Ranier where CN trains cross the U.S.–Canada border.
CN serves many local frac sand, forest product and general merchandise customers in Wisconsin, most notably from Milwaukee and Green Bay on Lake Michigan. We also have intermodal terminals in Chippewa Falls and Arcadia. Our two biggest rail facilities in the Badger State are classification yards in Stevens Point and North Fond du Lac. Stevens Point is the heart of CN’s North Division and a key location on CN’s main line between the U.S.–Canada border and Chicago, IL.
CN is the largest of three Class I railroads operating in Michigan. CN’s operations cross the state’s Lower Peninsula with rail yards in Battle Creek, Flint, Port Huron and Flat Rock. CN also has a railcar/ locomotive repair shop in Battle Creek. In the Upper Peninsula, CN has rail yards in Escanaba and Gladstone.
One in four automobiles built in Michigan is moved on a CN train. CN has an automotive distribution facility, two CN CargoFlo® bulk handling centers as well as forest products and metals distribution facilities in the state.
The Paul Tellier Tunnel between Port Huron and Sarnia serves as the border crossing for CN trains moving between Eastern Canada and the U.S. Midwest. CN has another international crossing at Sault Ste. Marie. CN also has an intermodal facility in Ferndale, in suburban Detroit. CN hosts several Michigan Amtrak trains.
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Through our subsidiary, the Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad, CN’s rails stretch the breadth of Iowa, from the Missouri River in the west to the Mississippi in the east. We carry a wide variety of manufactured and industrial products like food, machinery, electrical equipment, chemical products and primary metals. In addition to serving local businesses, CN’s ethanol franchise is centered in the Hawkeye State with several plants along the route between Dubuque and Sioux City and Council Bluffs. The largest rail yard and facility on CN’s Iowa network is in Waterloo.
In March 2025, CN and the Iowa Northern Railway (IANR) officially joined operations. With the closing of this transaction, CN and IANR integrated their two railroads to better serve customers, the Iowa economy and communities along the network. IANR serves upper Midwest agricultural and industrial markets with 175 route miles and about 100 employees to deliver many goods, including grain, biofuels and fertilizers. This transaction supports the growth of local business by creating single line service to North American destinations, while preserving access to existing carrier options.
Illinois is CN’s largest state in terms of operations and employees. Our routes from throughout North America converge in Chicago, where more than 1,600 CN railroaders live and work. Homewood, a Chicago suburb, is home to CN’s U.S. headquarters and a modern training center. CN Campus is focused on instilling and reinforcing a strong safety culture in our new hires, experienced railroaders and customers who received a complete range of hands on technical training.
Adjacent to CN Campus is Markham Yard and Harris Shop, the hub of CN’s Mechanical function in the United States. We also have facilities in Centralia and Champaign Urbana where close to 200 employees work. We are strengthening our unique Chicago advantage by increasing capacity for both inbound and outbound business via our Greater Chicago intermodal terminal in Harvey and a smaller intermodal facility in Joliet. The Chicago area also boasts three CargoFlo® bulk handling centers as well as automotive and metals distribution facilities and a logistics park. CN hosts Amtrak intercity passenger trains in Illinois and Metra commuter trains in Chicago.
CN’s main line from the Detroit area to our primary U.S. hub in Chicago passes through the northwest corner of Indiana. While the number of route miles CN operates in Indiana is relatively small, the impact of the state could not be more significant. Gary is home to Kirk Yard.
CN’s track extends to a yard in Toledo for interchange with eastern railroads. With a focus on local interests and the ability to link industries, extending our reach and providing flexibility, we count on our subsidiaries, the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad (BLE) and Grand Trunk Western Railroad (GTW), to help us deliver in Ohio. The BLE connects at Conneaut docks.
CN owns and operates a fully integrated supply chain that transports iron ore directly from mines to mills entirely with CN ships and trains.
CN’s main line runs from our marine bulk facilities in Conneaut, OH, on Lake Erie, where our Great Lakes ships unload iron ore. Our trains then move the iron ore to steel plants in the Pittsburgh area.
In 2021, CN received a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to help with the purchase of a new innovative Wabtec battery electric locomotive; a step on the journey toward decarbonizing the rail sector. CN is also working with Progress Rail to test 100% renewable fuels in Pennsylvania, an exciting step toward our goal of reducing carbon emissions.
CN has two main line corridors running through the western tip of Kentucky, linking CN’s network in Illinois to Tennessee and points south to the Gulf Coast. Amtrak’s City of New Orleans passenger rail service operates on CN tracks and stops in Fulton, where CN also owns and operates a railyard.
Western Tennessee is CN’s gateway to the south. CN’s yard in Memphis is a major freight handling point and the hub of CN’s U.S. operations south of Chicago. It is one of only two hump yards in the U.S. (CN has four hump yards on its entire network) and serves as an interchange point with four other Class I railroads. The Memphis Yard is also the location of a major CN railcar and locomotive repair shop.
Memphis is home to an important CN intermodal terminal. CN also serves President’s Island, an industrial core in Memphis. The birthplace of rock ‘n’ roll boasts distribution facilities for forest products, metals and automobiles as well as a CN CargoFlo® bulk handling center and a logistics park. Amtrak’s City of New Orleans service operates on CN tracks and stops in Memphis. More than 500 CN railroaders live and work in Memphis.
CN’s network crisscrosses Mississippi, with a rail yard in Jackson serving as a hub for petroleum headed to the western part of the Magnolia State, coal moving east to Alabama, grain shipping south to the Gulf Coast for export, and chemical products headed north to the Midwest. Intermodal products destined throughout North America are handled through our intermodal terminal in Jackson, where more than 350 CN railroaders live and work. Amtrak’s City of New Orleans service stops in Jackson at CN’s rail yard. CN also has an automotive distribution facility serving the Nissan assembly plant in Canton.
In addition to access to the Port of Mobile, CN’s network connects to our CargoFlo® bulk handling as well as metals and minerals distribution facilities in Mobile, which handle petroleum products from Western Canada and coal from the U.S. Midwest.
CN’s strategic connection to the Port of Mobile on the Gulf Coast provides capacity and fluidity in connecting the U.S. Midwest with markets overseas. CN’s daily trains between key markets such as Chicago, Detroit and Memphis provide viable options for congested supply chains.
At the southern terminus of CN’s North American network, Louisiana handles growing volumes of traffic, notably in the triangle formed by Hammond, Baton Rouge and the Port of New Orleans. CN’s major yards are in Baton Rouge, Geismar and Harahan (Mays Yard) outside of New Orleans. At Mays Yard, CN connects to the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad, which links the city’s six Class I railroads. CN also has a modern intermodal facility in New Orleans. Amtrak’s City of New Orleans service terminates in New Orleans.