CN to report first-quarter 2006 financial results on April 20

CN will issue its first-quarter 2006 financial and operating results shortly after 4 p.m. Eastern time (ET) on April 20, 2006. CN's senior officers will review the results and the company's outlook that afternoon in a conference call/webcast starting at 4.30 p.m. ET.

Parties interested in participating in, or listening to, the presentation by telephone should dial 1-866-542-4239 by 4.20 p.m. ET April 20.

E. Hunter Harrison, president and chief executive officer of CN, will lead the conference call. Joining him will be Claude Mongeau, executive vice-president and chief financial officer, and James Foote, executive vice-president, sales and marketing.

CN will webcast the presentation live and supply slides supporting the officers' remarks via the Investors' section of its website, www.cn.ca/investors. The slides will be posted shortly after 4 p.m. ET April 20, and will be archived on CN's website until May 12, 2006. To access the slides and webcast on April 20, please click on Analyst Presentations.

Canadian National Railway Company 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 cities 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.

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