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Article: CN and BNSF Railway Announce Agreement to Increase Network Fluidity and Infrastructure Capacity.
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- January 19, 2006
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MONTREAL and FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CN and BNSF Railway Company announced today an agreement focused on improving rail network fluidity and infrastructure capacity, principally in Vancouver, B.C., Chicago, and between Memphis and southern Illinois.
The agreement includes track and rail infrastructure exchanges between the railroads, and CN's grant of trackage, haulage and other access rights to BNSF Railway.
Highlights of the agreement are:
* In Vancouver, B.C., CN will obtain operational, dispatching and
maintenance control of 12 miles of joint track between the Fraser
River Bridge in New Westminster, ...