CN locomotive engineers on Northern Quebec Internal Short Line ratify new
labour agreement

MONTREAL, Nov. 26 /CNW Telbec/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE:CNI) announced today that locomotive engineers working on the Company's Northern Quebec Internal Short Line (NQISL) have ratified a new labour agreement.

Retroactive to Dec. 15, 2009, the three-year agreement for 45 members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) includes wage increases and benefit improvements.

NQISL locomotive engineers are based at the Garneau, Chambord/Jonquiere, and Senneterre terminals.

CN - Canadian National Railway Company and its operating railway subsidiaries - spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to the Gulf of Mexico, serving the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the key metropolitan areas 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.

For further information: Media: Mark Hallman, Director, Communications & Public Affairs, [phone]; Investment Community: Robert Noorigian, Vice-President, Investor Relations, [phone]