MONTREAL, July 28 /CNW Telbec/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE:CNI) today announced that holders of 82% of its 4.25% Notes due 2009 have tendered their notes pursuant to the tender offer and consent solicitation commenced by its wholly-owned subsidiary CNLX Canada Inc. on June 26, 2009. Also today, CNLX Canada Inc. has accepted and paid for the tendered notes.

Notes not tendered and purchased pursuant to the tender offer will remain outstanding until paid by CN on the stated maturity date of August 1, 2009.

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, 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.