This railway began as the Midland Railway of Manitoba incorporated in 1903 and it built various lines around Winnipeg. The operations of the company were acquired by Manitoba Great Northern on July 1, 1909. The lines sold to City of Winnipeg and later to CN. The name was changed to Burlington Northern Manitoba Limited in 1971. The last name change was to Burlington Northern Santa Fe (Manitoba) in 1999. CN or cn may stand for: Calcineurin (CN) Canadian National Railway (AAR reporting mark CN) and the CN Tower Canadian Northern Railway Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee Cartoon Network Chief of Navy China China (Peoples Republic), ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code Collegiate Network credit note...

The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Burlington Northern Santa Fe, an American railway company. The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (AAR reporting mark BNSF) (NYSE: BNI), headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, and established as a result of a 1995 merger between the parent companies of the Burlington Northern Railroad and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, is one of the largest...