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A new agreement is designed to improve interchange points and put excess capacity to use
Canadian National and BNSF Railway agreed in January to better coordinate interchange points and joint operations, principally in Vancouver, B.C., Chicago, and between Memphis, Tenn., and southern Illinois.
"These agreements are smart railroading," CN CEO E. Hunter Harrison said.
In the Vancouver area, CN will obtain operational, dispatching, and maintenance control of 12 miles of joint track between the Fraser River Bridge in New Westminster, B.C., and ocean terminals on the south...