CN Selects Great Canadian Railtour Company to Introduce New Tourist Trains In B.C. and Alberta.VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- CN (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CNI (1) (Certified NetWare Instructor) See Novell certification. (2) (Coalition for Networked Information, Washington, DC, www.cni.org) A partnership of the Association of Research Libraries, CAUSE and EDUCOM, founded in 1990. ) (TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension :CNR) today announced the selection of Great Canadian Railtour Company (GCRC GCRC General Clinical Research Center GCRC Great Canadian Railtour Company GCRC Graafschap Christian Reformed Church (Holland, Michigan) GCRC Galena Creek Rock Glacier ) as the operator of new, exciting tourist trains in British Columbia and Alberta. CN said Vancouver-based GCRC - operator of Rocky Mountaineer Railtours in Western Canada - best met its criteria for the new tourism service, including product quality, prospects for financial success, economic development benefits for British Columbia, and value to CN. GCRC will introduce the Whistler Mountaineer on BC Rail between North Vancouver and Whistler, B.C. GCRC will also expand its Rocky Mountaineer tourist train service by operating a new route linking Whistler and Jasper, Alta., via Prince George, B.C., which will accommodate many overnight train guests. The expanded Rocky Mountaineer will travel on BC Rail between Whistler and Prince George, and on CN track to Jasper. Details of these new services, scheduled for full-scale operation in 2006, are being announced today by GCRC. CN committed itself to the selection of a tourist train operator in its Nov. 25, 2003, BC Rail Partnership agreement with the British Columbia government. CN closed its BC Rail transaction with the government on July 14, 2004. Canadian National Railway Company Canadian National Railway Company (NYSE: CNI, TSX: CNR) is a Canadian rail transportation company that operates the Canadian National Railway. It was created in December, 1918 as a Crown corporation of the Government of Canada to nationalize several bankrupt rail systems spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east , serving the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the key cities of Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., Green Bay, Wis., Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, St. Louis, and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America. www.cn.ca |
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