CN Rail (ON)

General Info

CN is the largest railway in Canada and is currently Canada's only transcontinental railway company, spanning Canada from the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia to the Pacific coast in British Columbia.

Almost all scanners on the market can receive the railroad band, some have search bands dedicated to the railroad monitoring and will identify frequency by it's AAR channel number.

Active Hump Yards

The MacMillan Yard is the largest rail classification yard in Canada. It is operated by Canadian National Railway (CN) and is located 20 kilometers north of downtown Toronto in Vaughan, Ontario. MacMillan Yard is located at the junction of the CN York Subdivision and CN Halton Subdivision. The yard measures 4 kilometres in length and 1 kilometre in width with a north-south orientation.

Frequencies

CN Rail

Provincewide Channel Plan

Frequency Input Type Tone Alpha Tag Description Mode Tag

• 161.41500 BM CSQ CN001 CN 1 Mainline End-to-End FM Railroad
• 161.20500 BM CSQ CN002 CN 2 Dispatcher FM Railroad
• 160.93500 BM CSQ CN003 CN 3 Dispatcher FM Railroad
• 160.66500 BM CSQ CN004 CN 4 Dispatcher FM Railroad
• 160.36500 BM CSQ CN005 CN 5 Terminal Switching FM Railroad
• 160.48500 BM CSQ CN006 CN 6 Dispatcher FMN Railroad
• 161.05500 BM CSQ CN007 CN 7 Dispatcher FM Railroad
• 161.02500 BM CSQ CN008 CN 8 Dispatcher FM Railroad
• 160.78500 BM CSQ CN020 CN 20 Engineering FM Railroad
• 161.23500 BM CSQ CN035 CN 35 Police FM Railroad
• 160.45500 BM CSQ CN081 CN 81 Maintenance of Way FM Railroad
• 160.21500 BM CSQ CN082 CN 82 Maintenance of Way FM Railroad
• 160.51500 BM CSQ CN083 CN 83 Maintenance of Way FM Railroad
• 160.27500 BM CSQ CN084 CN 84 Maintenance of Way FM Railroad
• 160.39500 BM CSQ CN085 CN 85 Yard Operations FM Railroad
• 160.59000 161.43000 RM 32 RAN CN704 CN 704 Yard Operations NXDN Railroad
• 160.68500 BM CSQ CN??? Yard Operations FM Railroad

MacMillan Yard

• 160.215
• 160.365
• 160.605
• 160.965
• 161.025
• 161.205
• 161.415
• 452.900

Maple Hump Yard

• 160.7850
• 460.2750
• 460.6125
• 460.9000
• 461.1375
• 461.9500
• 466.9625

Intermodal Terminal

CN Rail’s Brampton Intermodal Terminal (BIT) is the largest on the company’s North American rail network. Strategically located in Brampton, Ontario, BIT is CN’s intermodal hub for the Greater Toronto Area and Southwestern Ontario, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. BIT transfers between CN train and truck (both independent and CN managed) containers (import and domestic) or highway trailers arriving from or destined to: key ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Halifax and Montréal; major centres in Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Ontario and the Western provinces, and key cities in the U.S. along CN’s network, including Chicago, Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans

Frequencies at Brampton Intermodal Terminal

• 160.6650
• 160.7850
• 161.0250
• 857.5375

Other Canadian National Railways Wiki Pages

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Canadian National Railways (SK)

Canadian National Railways (MB)

Canadian National Railways (QC)

Canadian National Railways (NB)

Canadian National Railways (NS)

Canadian National Railways (NT)

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