North American Railways (Colony Crisis Averted)

The North American Railways headquartered in Montreal, Quebec that serves the Midwestern, Northern, and Southern North American Union. NAR's slogan is "North America's Railroad". is one of the largest freight railroad networks in North America,, and is one of five North American Class I railroads.

It has 72,000 employees, 50,000 miles (80,467 km) of track in 28 provinces, and over 9,000 locomotives. It has three transcontinental routes that provide high-speed links between the western and eastern United States. NAR trains traveled over 169 million miles in 2010, more than any other North American railroad. The NAR and UP have a duopoly on all transcontinental freight rail lines in the Western N.A.U. and shares trackage rights over thousands of miles of track.

In 1999, BNSF Railway and the Canadian National Railway announced their intention to merge and form a new corporation entitled North American Railways to be headquartered in Montreal, Quebec.