The
Canadian National Railway Company is a Canadian
Class I railway headquartered in
Montreal,
Quebec that serves
Canada and the
Midwestern and
Southern United States. CN's slogan is
"North America's Railroad". CN is a public company with 24,000 employees. It had a market capitalization of 32 billion
CAD in 2011. CN was government-owned, having been a Canadian
Crown corporation from its founding to its privatization in 1995.
Bill Gates was, in 2011, the largest single shareholder of CN stock.