CN to report and review third-quarter 2009 financial results on Oct. 20, 2009

MONTREAL , Oct. 20 /CNW Telbec/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) will issue its third-quarter 2009 financial and operating results today, Oct. 20 , shortly after 4 p.m. Eastern time (ET). CN's senior officers will review the results and the railway's outlook this afternoon in a 4.30 p.m. ET conference call/webcast.

Parties interested in participating in, or listening to, the presentation and following question-and-answer period by telephone should dial 1-800-355-4959 or 416-695-6622 by 4. 20 p.m. ET Oct. 20 .

E. Hunter Harrison , president and chief executive officer of CN, will lead the conference call.

CN will webcast the presentation live and furnish slides supporting the officers' remarks via the Investors section of its website, www.cn.ca/investors. The slides will be posted shortly just after 4 p.m. ET Oct. 20 . A webcast replay will be available shortly after the call ends.

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 more information on CN, visit the company's website at www.cn.ca.

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