CN To Report Fourth-Quarter 2004 Financial Results on Jan. 25, 2005

    Business Editors/Transportation Writers

    MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 2005--CN (NYSE:CNI) (TSX:CNR) will issue its fourth-quarter and full-year 2004 financial results immediately after markets close at 4 p.m. Eastern time (ET) on Jan. 25, 2005. CN's senior officers will review the results that afternoon in a 4.30 p.m. ET presentation/conference call/webcast.

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

    Parties interested in participating in or listening to the conference call/presentation should telephone 1-800-387-6216 between 4.15 and 4.30 p.m. on Jan. 25, 2005.

    CN will webcast the session live and supply slides supporting the presentation via the Investors' section of CN's website, www.cn.ca/investors. Please click on "Analyst Presentations" immediately before the call. CN will archive the webcast through Feb. 11, 2005.

    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.

    www.cn.ca

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CONTACT: CN Mark Hallman (Media) System Director, Media Relations (905) 669-3384 OR CN Robert Noorigian (Investment Community) Vice-President, Investor Relations (514) 399-0052

KEYWORD: LOUISIANA ILLINOIS WISCONSIN ALABAMA TENNESSEE NEW YORK MISSOURI MISSISSIPPI MINNESOTA MICHIGAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: TRANSPORTATION CONFERENCE CALLS EARNINGS SOURCE: Canadian National Railway Company

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