Canadian National Steamship Company | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadia... 00:01:34 1 History 00:03:09 1.1 Creation of the company, 1918–23 00:07:34 1.2 CN Telegraph 00:09:00 1.3 CNR Radio 00:10:46 1.4 CN Hotels 00:11:49 1.5 Canadian National Steamship Company 00:12:17 1.5.1 West Coast 00:13:52 1.5.1.1 Canadian former Northern Pacific ships 00:14:18 1.5.1.2 Former Grand Trunk Pacific steamships 00:14:55 1.5.1.3 CN-built steamships for the West Coast 00:16:05 1.5.2 East Coast 00:17:49 1.5.3 Cargo ships 00:18:22 1.6 Pros and cons of nationalization 00:20:31 1.7 CNR as a social and economic tool 00:21:30 1.8 Deregulation and recapitalization 00:22:59 1.9 Cutbacks and refocusing 00:28:01 1.10 CN's U.S. subsidiaries prior to privatization 00:28:57 1.11 Privatization 00:31:15 1.12 Contraction and expansion since privatization 00:40:28 2 CN today 00:42:26 2.1 Projects 00:43:16 2.2 Controversies 00:58:15 3 Corporate governance 00:58:47 3.1 Heads of CNR 00:59:03 4 Passenger trains 00:59:13 4.1 Early years 01:01:46 4.2 New services 01:05:08 4.3 Decline 01:06:51 4.4 Expansion and service cuts 01:08:59 5 Locomotives 01:09:09 5.1 Steam 01:10:02 5.2 Electric 01:12:25 5.3 Turbo 01:14:17 5.4 Diesel 01:23:09 5.5 Freight cars 01:23:18 5.6 Overseas intermodal containers 01:23:43 5.7 North American intermodal containers 01:24:21 5.8 Container chassis 01:24:47 6 Aqua Train 01:25:18 7 Major facilities 01:25:46 7.1 Active hump yards 01:26:32 7.2 Other major yards 01:27:15 7.3 Intermodal terminals 01:28:49 8 See also 01:29:01 8.1 Former component railways 01:29:26 8.2 Under long term lease Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: increases imagination and understanding improves your listening skills improves your own spoken accent learn while on the move reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services... Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?searc... Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.7841516328536643 Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-D "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." Socrates SUMMARY ======= Canadian National (CN; French: Canadien National ) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec that serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue and the physical size of its rail network, and is Canada's only transcontinental railway company, spanning Canada from the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia to the Pacific coast in British Columbia across about 20,400 route miles (32,831 km) of track. CN is a public company with 24,000 employees and as of September 2018 it had a market cap of approximately $84 billion Canadian dollars. CN was government-owned, having been a Canadian Crown corporation from its founding to its privatization in 1995. In 2011, Bill Gates was the largest single shareholder of CN stock.The railway was referred to as the "Canadian National Railways" (CNR) between 1918 and 1960, and as "Canadian National"/"Canadien National" (CN) from 1960 to the present.