MONTREAL, March 24, 2017 /CNW/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) will issue its first-quarter 2017 financial and operating results on April 24, 2017, at 4:01 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

CN's senior officers will review the results and the railway's outlook in a webcast/conference call starting at 4:30 p.m. EDT April 24. Luc Jobin, CN president and chief executive officer, will lead the call.

Parties wishing to participate in or listen to the first-quarter 2017 presentation and question-and-answer period by telephone should call 800-355-4959 or 416-641-6122 by 4.20 p.m. EDT on April 24.

CN will webcast the presentation live and furnish slides supporting the officers' remarks via the Investors' section of its website, www.cn.ca/en/investors. The slides will be posted on the website after the close of markets on April 24. A webcast replay will be available after the call ends.

CN is a true backbone of the economy that transports more than C$250 billion worth of goods annually for a wide range of business sectors, ranging from resource products to manufactured products to consumer goods, across a rail network of approximately 20,000 route-miles spanning Canada and mid-America. CN – Canadian National Railway Company, along with its operating railway subsidiaries – serves the cities and ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the metropolitan areas of Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary, Chicago, Memphis, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America. For more information about CN, visit the Company's website at www.cn.ca.

SOURCE CN