CN Takes Delivery of New State-of-the-Art Locomotives.Business Editors MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2000 Canadian National (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. )(TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :CNR See riser card. CNR - Communication and Network Riser .) is taking delivery by year-end of the last of 40 state-of-the-art Dash 9 - 44CW locomotives produced by General Electric Transportation Systems. These locomotives will bring the number of new locomotives acquired over the last five years by CN to more than 360. "In 1995, CN embarked on a major program to renew part of its locomotive fleet to improve asset utilization and increase operating efficiencies," said Dennis Waller, vice-president - engineering and mechanical. "These new locomotives will provide significant fuel efficiency improvements because they are 17 per cent more fuel-efficient than older locomotives. This will produce significant savings for CN in light of increasing fuel costs." The new Dash 9 - 44CW locomotives develop 4,400 horsepower and will replace 56 3000-horsepower locomotives that have reached the end of their service lives. They will be dedicated to main-line service across the CN system. The new microprocessor-controlled locomotives are equipped with the newly developed "Low Emission Package," which will significantly lower air emission levels. The new locomotives are also equipped with "comfort cabs", providing crews with such amenities as ergonomic seats, toilet, refrigerator, and even microwave oven. With the addition of the 40 new locomotives, the average age of CN's locomotive mainline fleet will be about 13 years - compared with close to 18 years in 1995, when CN introduced its plan to upgrade its locomotive fleet by replacing aging locomotives. The new units will be maintained at CN's Symington Shops in Winnipeg, Man., under a locomotive maintenance agreement with GE Transportation Systems, initiated in 1997. The agreement calls for GE to manage the maintenance of CN's fleet of high-horsepower GE Dash 8 and Dash 9 locomotives, with work performed by CN employees. 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 Prince Rupert, city (1991 pop. 16,620), W British Columbia, Canada, on Kaien Island, in Chatham Sound near the mouth of the Skeena River, S of the Alaska border. , BC, Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, AL, and the key cities of Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, St. Louis, and Jackson, MS, with connections to all points in North America. |
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