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 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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