CN to report, review first-quarter 2009 financial results on April 20, 2009

MONTREAL, March 27, 2009 — CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) will issue its first-quarter 2009 financial and operating results on April 20, 2009, shortly after 4 p.m. Eastern time (ET). CN's senior officers will review the results and the railway's outlook that afternoon in a 4.30 p.m. ET conference call/webcast.

Parties interested in participating in, or listening to, the presentation and following question-and-answer period by telephone should dial 1-866-542-4239 or 416-641-6114 by 4.20 p.m. ET April 20.

E. Hunter Harrison, president and chief executive officer of CN, will lead the conference call. He will be joined on the call by 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 furnish 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.

About CN

CN – Canadian National Railway Company and its operating railway subsidiaries – 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 metropolitan areas 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.

Contacts

Media

Mark Hallman
Director
Communications & Public Affairs
Phone: 905-669-3384

Investment Community

Robert Noorigian
Vice-president
Investor Relations
Phone: 514-399-0052