CN breaks ground on new Homewood training facility

A new Canadian National Railway training center where 100 to 125 employees per week will be instructed is set to open in Homewood before the end of 2014.

Local officials and CN Railway executives celebrated the groundbreaking of the site Thursday at 175th Street and Ashland Avenue.

The 62,000-square-foot, multimillion-dollar Southland site will complement a 100,000-square-foot training site the company is building in Winnipeg, Canada, officials said…Please click here to read the rest of Casey Toner’s story in the Southtown Star.