MONTREAL , July 20, 2015 /CNW/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a third-quarter 2015 dividend on the Company's common shares outstanding. A quarterly dividend of thirty-one-and-one-quarter cents (C$0.3125) per common share will be paid on Sept. 30, 2015 , to shareholders of record at the close of business on Sept. 9, 2015 .

CN is a true backbone of the economy, transporting 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 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 on CN, visit the company's website at www.cn.ca.

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