Tracy Robinson

2024 Railroader of the Year: Tracy Robinson, CN

Railway Age’s 2024 Railroader of the Year Award, the 61st annual, goes to an experienced and highly respected North American rail industry leader: CN President and Chief Executive Officer Tracy Robinson. Robinson

For CN, a Hat Trick

January 25, 2022, will be remembered as the day CN achieved, in hockey parlance, a hat trick (three successes of the same kind, especially consecutive ones within a limited period; i.e. a hockey player who scores three goals in the same game). The Class I appointed a new President and CEO—who spent nearly 30 years at rival Class I Canadian Pacific; entered into a “Resolution Agreement” with beneficial shareholder and 2021 antagonist hedge fund TCI; and posted fourth-quarter 2021 results it calls “outstanding.”