US AND CANADIAN RAIL ROADS
PROHIBITED AND RESTRICTED COMMODITIES
US CONTRACTORS
CSX
BNSF
UP
NS
CANADIAN CONTRACTORS
CP
CN
Steven Barcynski
USA inlands team
31 March 2011
CSX Prohibited Commodities (please refer to CSX Intermodal Service Directory No. 1 for more details at www.csxi.com)
Any article, product, commodity or substance considered to be illegal contraband by any state or federal government entity.
Any commodity shipped in bladder bag packaging (see Note G)
Any commodity shipped in bladder bag packaging (see Note G)
Batteries, used, (electric) spent, with or without chemicals having value for reclamation of materials.
Blacks (cabon, gas or oil blacks), lamp blacks or vegetable blacks, dry NEC, not activated, no dyes or dyestuffs when loaded in railroad cotrolled equipment.
Bladder bag packaging (hazardous commodity only).
Bulk commodities when loaded in railroad controlled equipment.
Coal or Coke when loaded in railroad controlled equipment.
Hides, furs, pelts or skins, green or green slated when shipped in railroad-controlled equipment.
Hazardous Materials of Asbestos Class 9, Class 6 or any subsidiary Class 6, radioactive material, hazardous waste or liquids, as described in the current
edition of DOT DFR 49, Parts 106-180 Hazardous Materials Regulation and the Hazardous Materials secti
Metal or metal products including, but not limited to, those shipped in coiled, rolled, reels, rods, sheets, plates, or spools when the gross weight of the product
and packaging exceeds 3,500 lbs (1591 kg) per package. (see Note D, H, I, J)
Municipal garbage waste, solid, digested and ground, fertilizer materials when shipped in railroad controlled equipment.
Municipal garbage waste, solid, digested and ground, other than sweage waste or fertilizer when shipped in railroad controlled equipment.
Poison (Toxic) inhalation Hazardous Shipments, in any amount, are forbidden on CSX Intermodal.
Sodium compounds (STCC 28-123##) when shipped in railroad controlled equipment.
Wheeled, motorized vehicles other than those listed in CSX Intermodal Service Directory No. 1 Item 200 B,.
CSX Restricted Commodities (for more details, please refer to CSX Intermodal Service Directory No. 1 at www.csxi.com)
Aircraft, aircraft parts, airplanes, airplanes, airplane parts, airplane components, helicopters, helicopter parts, or components, or any other instrumentality used
for flying.
Ammunition, small arms, described as Class C Explosives.
Animals (game, fowl, or poultry; live, refrigerated, frozen, fresh meat and packing house products).
Animals, fish, or fowl, trophies, stuffed or mounted, or research cadavers.
Articles likely to damage freight equipment or other cargo.
Articles of extraordinary value.
Asbestos Products as described in item 6400 of UFC.
Asbestos Insulation as described in items 53170, 53210, and 53350 of UFC.
Asbestos, Crude as described in item 6450 of UFC.
Asbestos, Scrap as described in item 6600 of UFC.
Bladder bag packaging (non-haz only)
Bogies chassis, Flat Bed trailers, or Flat Racks, bundled or stacked.
Byphenyls, polychlorinated.
Bulk commodities (see Note A) (except when in Shipper Vehicles). (see Note G)
Carbon black. (see Note B)
Ceramic pottery, glassware, crystal, and china (other than those shipped at a released value of 35 cents per pound).
Cigars, cigarettes, snuff and manufactured tobacco products. (see Note D)
Coal or coke (unless shipped in privately owned or controlled units with the cargo properly packaged, secured, blocked and braced for rail transportation.
Coins, currency, valuable or negotiable documents or any kind.
Commodities required protection from heat or cold.
A and B Class Explosives.
Extraordinary value, generally items where the size of the items bears little relationship to the value of the cargo or an item whose value cannot be accurately
accessed by is designation, such as: bank bills, coin or currency, deeds, draft, notes or valu
Fish, shellfish, crustaceans (fresh or frozen).
Folk lifts, not exceeding a total weight of 5,000 lbs and 2,500 lobs per axel. See Notes K and L.
Fresh fruits or vegetables, of any kind.
Hay, dru baled
Hides, furs, pelts or skins, green or green salted, unless shipped in privately owned or controlled Intermodal Units with cargo properly packaged, secured,
blocked and restrained for rail transportation. All shipments must be properly lined with a durabl
House or building sections, modulars, factory manufactured, with or without heating, air conditioner and plumbing equipment, electrical wiring and fixtures,
refrigerators, stoves or cabinets installed..
Household goods, furnishings, or furniture (including used). (see Note D)
Ice, ice cream, and/or frozen novelties.
Iron oxide slurry residue for extraction of iron.
Lime sludge or waste.
Livestock.
Loaded temperature-controlled Trailer or Containers billed as FAK, or any temperature controlled Shipments.
Marine vessels (boats, canoes, launches, yachts, or sailboats).
Medical equipment, medical supplies or medical hardware including x-ray, CT scanning and MRI devices..
Medicines, drugs, pharmaceuticals, prescription and non-prescription medication.
Military communication outfits, telegraph, telephone or teletype, including necessary radio equipment..
Military tracking, radar, communications equipment, electronics, or surveillance.
Missiles/rockets, guided, guidance systems or electronic guidance control apparantus; or mobile missile guidance control systems, missile or launching
apparatus and related equipment..
Any items moving in conjunction with a military field exercise.
Motor vehicles, freight or passenger, or combination of freight and passenger.
Outfits, radio repair or public address or television.
Over dimensional shipments. (see Note E)
Pipe.
Plants (living or fresh cut, including Christmas trees, floral, or nursery stock).
Poisons, DOT classified.
Potatoes.
Precious metals or stones or articles manufactured therefrom.
Radioactive materials.
Railway wheels, new or used, when moving on other than flatbed vehicles..
Raw wooden logs when shipped in railroad controlled equipment..
Rubber shavings or turnings.
Scrap (except when palletized or in barrels).
Tire fabric.
Tank Containers (ISO)
Trainers, air flight, or flight training aids or devices, electronic; or such articles combined with or shipped with communication equipment or outfits, electronic in
boxes, crates or mounted on automobiles or trailer vehicles. training aids, devices, or
United States Post Office Department mail of any class.
Any LTL (less than truckload) shipment lot.
Packages/parcels moving via private expedited courier service.
Used business equipment, office furnishings or furniture.
Used machinery, equipment, or auto parts; assembled or in components.
Used tires.
Waste, municipal garbage.
Watermelons.
Wheeled Vehicles used in the construction industry, not exceeding 3,000 lbs.
Steven Barcynski
USA inlands team
31 March 2011
CSX Prohibited Commodities (please refer to CSX Intermodal Service Directory No. 1 for more details at www.csxi.com)
Notes
A
B
C
D
E
F
H
I
J
K
L
For the purposes of this Item, the item "bulk commodities" includes any Cargo shipped loose or in mass which must be shoveled, scooped or forked for
handling and which is not in packages, nor units of such size as to readily and expediently permit handlin
This restriction does not apply to Shippments moving in Shipper Vehicles.
CSXI prohibits the loading of municipal garbage waste in any equipment it utilizes. Any party loading municipal garbage waste in CSXI supplied equipment will
be subject to a $5,000 assessment per occurrence and will be responsible for disposition of the
An indemnification and waiver will be required from Shipper for each instance (metal product see H)
Over dimensional Loads must be pre approved, and move via SPQ only.
Hazardous Materials need special handling, please see CSX Directory item 230.
Concentrated Metal Product of 3,500 lbs total or less do not require an indemnification agreement.
Concentrated Metal Product in excess of 3,500 lbs each are to move in containers only.
Concentrated Metal Products in excess of 12,500 lbs (5681.8 kg) will not be accepted.
An executed Indemnification Agreement is required for all Fork Lift Shipments.
Fork Lifts exceeding a total weight of 5,000 lbs. and/or 2,500 lbs per axel will not be accepted for shipment without a pre-authorization from CSX's Loading
Engineering and Design Department.
Steven Barcynski
USA inlands team
31 March 2011
BNSF Prohibited Commodities (please refer to BNSF Intermodal Rules & Policies Guide for more details at www.bnsf.com)
Bulk commodities not packaged, sealed, and/or loaded properly to prevent shifting.
BNSF bond, not authorized for intermodal shipments.
Bulk bladders (flex-tanks) containing hazardous commodities.
Bulk bladder shipments, also known as flexi-tanks.
Coiled metal or scrap metal via steel-wheel interchange or from on-dock locations.
Coiled metal products (in excess of 3,500lbs).
Cross-town transfers, drayage, or interchange of tank containers.
Cross-town transfers or drayage on rule 11 shipments.
Any commodity that exceeds more than 25,000 pounds in any ten (10) linear feet or 2,500 pounds per linear foot on the equipment floor, and the
lading weight is not evenly distributed over the entire floor surface.
Division 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, or 1.4 explosives as defined in 49 CFR 173.50 (Code of Federal Regulations pertaining to explosives) to or from the cities or
ports of Galveston, TX, La Porte, TX, Morgans Points, TX, and Barbours Cut, TX via BNSF.
Division 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 explosives as defined in 49 CFR 173.50 (Code of Federal Regulations pertaining to explosives ) to or from Houston,
Galveston, La Porte Barbours Cut, TX via BNSF.
Equipment that cannot be lifted by standard means.
FAK commodity description or STCC for restricted or hazardous shipments, or shipments that greater than 29,000 pounds.
Hazardous prohibited shipments stated on the Prohibited Hazardous Web page
(http://www.bnsf.com/markets/intermodal/hazardous_prohibited.html).
Hazardous waste from an on-dock, interchange or intermodal facility.
Poison/toxic inhalation hazar (PIH/TIH) greater than 1,000 pounds, except in tank containers.
Portable tank containers containing the hazardous commodities: Allyl chloride, Benzene, Carbon disulfide, Carbon tetrachloride, Chlorobenzene,
Chloroform, Dichloropropene, Epichlorohydrin, Ethyl chloride, Ethylene dichloride, Flammable gases, Methyl chloroform, Methylene chloride,
Methylene chloride/chloroform mixture, O-dichlorobenzene, Perchloroethylene, Perchloroethylene/trichloroethylene mixture, PIH/TIH including
anhydrous ammonia, Trichloroethylene.
BNSF Restricted Commodities (for more details, please refer to BNSF Intermodal Rules & Policies Guide at www.bnsf.com)
Aircraft.
Air-flight training aids, devices, or electronics.
Ammunition.
Animals or carcasses.
Asphalt, natural or asphalt compounds, by-products, or petroleum.
Bakery product waste.
Bulk commodities or products.
Bundled chassis or other equipment.
Carbon blacks in private equipment.
Christmas trees.
Cigarettes.
Copper cathode.
Creosote or creosoted materials.
Dimensional, high/wide or oversize loads.
Dump carts, trailers, and wagons.
Extraordinary or high valued commodities, equipment, or property.
Fish scrap or meal.
Flat rakcs, flat beds, or any open-top.
Firearms.
Fresh fruits and vegetables.
Hazardous commodities. See details/notes
Hides, pelts, skins, or any other animal products.
Household goods or personal goods.
High or extraordinary value commodities, equipment, or property.
Irradiated cask containers.
LTL (less than truckload) shipments.
Logs
Mail.
Military communications outfits.
Missiles/rockets.
Motor vehicles.
Nuclear materials, substances, or wastes.
Packages and parcels
Plants.
Road-railers.
Railway wheels., new or used.
Rolled Paper.
Rolling Mills.
Scrap (used) metal (loose or packaged), used machinery, equipment, motors, or cylindrical scrap metal objects. Scrap metal (loose or packaged),
machinery, equipment, and motor must be properly described, loaded, secured, and measures taken to prevent lea
Shellfish (such as clam, mussel, or oyster) in bulk or in raw state.
Tank containers
Temperature sensitive articles requiring protection from heat or cold.
Tires must be properly loaded to ensure the equipment sides do not bulge and the lading weight remains distriburted equally.
Vehicle components (including loose or baled scrap metal) that leak oil and grease including, but not limited to, axles, differentials, engine blocks,
and transmissions, the actual commodity must be properly declared, and necessary steps must be taken to
Waste Materials, non-hazardous (Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations).
Steven Barcynski
USA inlands team
31 March 2011
BNSF Prohibited Commodities (please refer to BNSF Intermodal Rules & Policies Guide for more details at www.bnsf.com)
Details/Notes
1 Hazardous commodities as listed in the 49 CFR 172.101 table when placarding is required by DOT regulatons.
2 Hazardous commodities moving by portable tank containers.
3 Chemicals derived from vanadium ore.
4 Class 3 Flammable Liquids (defined in 49 CFR 171.8 Code of Federal Regulartions).
5 Radioactive commodities.
6 Polychlorinated bipheryl (PCB).
Scrap batteries as described in Items 95150 to 95160 of AAR UFC 6000 series. This commodity must be loaded on pallets (properly rear braced)
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with stretch-wrap around each pallet and the entire load encapsulated in a six millimeter thick plastic liner.
8 Waste etiologic agents, NOS (not otherwise specified).
9 Waster materials, hazardous (part 261, Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, STCC 48).
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USA inlands team
31 March 2011
UP Prohibited Commodities (please refer to UP Master Intermodal Transportation Agreement at www.up.com)
Any article, product, commodity or substance considered to be illegal contraband by any state or federal government entity.
Blacks (cabon, gas or oil blacks), lamp blacks or vegetable blacks, dry NBC, not activated, no dyes or dyestuffs when loaded in railroad cotrolled equipment.
Bulk commodities when loaded in railroad controlled equipment.
Bulk bladder shipments, also known as flexi-tanks.
Coal or Coke when loaded in railroad controlled equipment.
Hazardous Materials of Asbestos, Class 6 or any subsidiary Class 6, radioactive material, hazardous waste or liquids, as described in the current edition of DOT
DFR 49, Parts 106-180 Hazardous Materials Regulation and the Hazardous Materials section of th
Hides, furs, pelts or skins, green or green slated, when shipped in railroad controlled equipment.
Metal products shipped in coils, rolls, reels, or spools, when the gross weight of the product and packaging exceeds 3,500 lbs per package.
Municipal garbage waste, solid, digested and ground, fertilizer materials when shipped in railroad controlled equipment.
Municipal garbage waste, solid, digested and ground, other than sweage waste or fertilizer when shipped in railroad controlled equipment.
Sodium compounds (STCC 28-123##) when shipped in railroad controlled equipment.
Batteries, used, (electric) spent, with or without chemicals having value for reclamation of materials.
Used machinery, equipment, auto parts: assembled or in components moving in rail owned or leased equipment.
UP Restricted Commodities (for more details, please refer to UP Master Intermodal Transportation Agreement at www.up.com)
Aircraft, aircraft parts, airplane, airplane parts, airplane components: helicopters, helicopter parts or components, or any other instrumentality used for flying.
Animals, game, fowl, or poultry, live, refrigerated, frozen, fresh meat and packing house products and dressed poultry.
Animals, fish, or fowl, trophies, stuffed or mounted.
Bulk commodities unless shipped in privately owned or controlled intermodal units with the cargo properly secured, blocked, and braced for rail transportation.
Ceramics, pottery, glassware, crystal, and china other than those shipped at a released value of 35 cents per pound.
Cigarettes and tobacco products.
Coal or coke unless shipped in privately owned or controlled intermodal units with the cargo properly packaged, secured, blocked and braced for rail
transportation.
Extraordinary value, generally items where the size of the item bears little relationship to the value of the cargo or an item whose value cannot be accurately
accerssed by its designation.
Fish, shellfish, crustaceans (fresh or frozen).
Fresh fruits or vegetables.
Hides, furs, pelts or skins, green or green salted unless shipped in privately owned or controlled intermodal units with the cargo properly packaged, secured,
blocked and restrained by rail transportation.
Ice, ice cream, and/or frozen novelties.
Loaded temperature-controlled Trailer or Containers billed as FAK (Freight All Kinds), or any temperature controlled shipments.
Marine vessels (boats, canoes, launches, yachts, or sailboats).
Medical equipment, medical supplies or medical hardware.
Medicines, drugs, pharmaceuticals, prescription and non-prescription medication.
Military communication outfits.
Military tracking, radar, communications equipment, electronics, or surveillance.
Any items moving in conjunction with a military field exercise.
Missiles, guided or rockets, guided; guidance systems or electronic guidance control apparatus for installation in missiles or in missile sections.
Motor vehicles of any kind unless individually packaged or crated and properly blocked and braced for rail transportation.
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USA inlands team
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Over dimensional shipments.
Plants (living or fresh cut, including Christmas trees, floral, or nursery stock).
Raw wooden logs when shipped in railroad controlled equipment.
Trailers, modular housing, pre-fabricated housing, modular or pre-fabricated offices, carts, freight or passenger. Buildings, houses or offices; fabricated or
portable.
Used business equipment, office furnishings or furniture.
Used household goods, furnishings, or furniture.
Used machinery, equipment, auto parts; assembled or in components moving in private equipment.
Used tires.
Domestic shipments of Consumer Electronics, UP liability limited to $100,000.
Any LTL (Less than Trucload) shipment lot.
United States mail.
Packages and/or parcels moving via private expedited courier service.
See note 35 of restricted for haz additions.
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USA inlands team
31 March 2011
NS Prohibited Non-Hazardous Commodities (for more detail, please refer to NS Intermodal Rules Circular #2 at www.nscorp.com)
Crushed automobile hulks
Bank bills, coins or currency; deeds, drafts, notes, or valuable papers of any kind; antiques, or other related or unrelated old, rare, or precious
articles of extraordinary value.
Coiled metal products: this includes, but is not limited to, all coil, plate, roll, spool, wire rope, or reel metal products.
Jewelry, other than costume or novelty.
long or bulky items that cannot be loaded in or on trailers without overhang.
Liquid bulk commodities in bladders, plastic liners, or the equivalent.
Livestock
Postage stamps, or letters and packets of letters with or without postage stamps affixed.
Precious metals or articles manufactured there from.
Precious stones.
Railway wheels.
Revenue stamps.
United States Postal Service Mail of any class.
NS Restricted Non-Hazardous Commodities (for more details, please refer to NS Intermodal Rules Circular #2 at www.nscorp.com
Air-flight training aids, devices, or electronics.
Ammunition.
Asphalt (asphaltum) natural or asphalt compounds, by-products or petroleum, may be shipped only if loaded in shipper-furnished equipment..
Bulk bakery product waste, may be shipped only if loaded in shipper-furnished equipment..
Bulk commodities or products.
Carbon Black, may be shipped only if loaded in shipper-furnished equipment.
Christmas Trees.
Cigarettes.
Creosote or creosoted materials.
Dimensional, high/wide or oversized loads.
Dry Bulk commodities, may be loaded in private equipment only.
Firearms
Fish scrap or meal.
Fresh fruits and vegetable, may be shipped only if loaded in shipper-furnished equipment.
Guidance systems or electronic guidance control apparatus for installation in missiles or in missile sections.
Hides, pelts, skins, or any other animal products with contaminating odor. Also, Animals or carcasses.
Household goods or personal goods.
Logs of any shape or size.
Military communications outfits, telegraph, telephone, teletype or related radio equipment.
Missile/rocket electronic apparatus, fram assemblies, or guidance systems.
Motor vehicles, new motor vehicles will not be accepted for intermodal service..
Refrigerated shipment: trailers or containers containing freight requiring protective service against heat.
Scrap metals, loose, lading must be in packages, bales, or bundles as provided in UFC. Loose or shredded scrap may be shipped only if loaded
in shipper furnished equipment according to method G-2 as found in the AAR intermodla loading guide for products
Shellfish (such as clam, mussel, or oyster) in bulk or raw state, may be shipped only if loaded in shipper-furnished equipment..
Tank containers.
Temperature sensitive articles requiring protection from heat or cold.
Vehicle components (including loose or baled scrap metal) that leak oil and grease including, but not limited to, axles, differentials, engine blocks
and transmissions.
Waste materials, non-hazardous. Prior approval required. Will be accepted only if the specific applicable rate is established and in effect.
Steven Barcynski
USA inlands team
31 March 2011
NS Prohibited Non-Hazardous Commodities (for more detail, please refer to NS Intermodal Rules Circular #2 at www.nscorp.com)
Steven Barcynski
USA inlands team
31 March 2011
NS Prohibited Non-Hazardous Commodities (for more detail, please refer to NS Intermodal Rules Circular #2 at www.nscorp.com)
Steven Barcynski
USA inlands team
31 March 2011
NS Prohibited Non-Hazardous Commodities (for more detail, please refer to NS Intermodal Rules Circular #2 at www.nscorp.com)
Steven Barcynski
USA inlands team
31 March 2011
NS Prohibited Non-Hazardous Commodities (for more detail, please refer to NS Intermodal Rules Circular #2 at www.nscorp.com)
Steven Barcynski
USA inlands team
31 March 2011
CP Prohibited Commodities (please refer to CP International Import/Export Rules &
Regulations Circular 7800 at www.cp.ca)
Articles as described in rule 3 of CP Rail Classification.
Asbestos
Asphalt or asphalt compounds.
Coiled Metal Products, this includes Rolls, Spool, Reel
Creosote or creosoted materials
Firearms
Feed: animal or poultry, containing ruminate protein, fish scrap or meal
Liquid Bulk Commodities in Bladders.
Municapal garbage waste
PCBs
Shipments mark C.O.D (cash on delivery)
Shipments destined beyond Canada that will be transported via or through the USA to countries
that have U.S. Trade Embargoes in place.
TIH / PIH Commodities
Traffic, which because of it snature cannot be transported on or in standard marine containers.
Household Goods, Personal Effects on Crossborder movements.
Radioactive Material, Class 7, UN2912 on southbound Crossborder movements.
CP Restricted Commodities (please refer to CP International Import/Export Rules &
Regulations Circular 7800 at www.cp.ca)
Bulk commodities includes bulk grain and seeds.
Carbon blacks
Cigarettes.
Dangerous Goods - subject to conditions in Item 165, 170, 620 of CP Circular 7800.
Perishable Traffic requiring Protection against the heat or cold.
Glass, Window, Plate or laminated (not including cusumer goods contained in glass) - will only
Hides, Pelts, Skins
Household Goods and personal effects, antiques or second hand furniture - will only be moved
under owners risk. Not acceptable on crossborder traffic.
Motor Vehicles, including automobiles and or trucks and all other self-propelled vehicles. - will
not accept privately titled vehicles for crossborder.
Scrap metal, loose or baled scrap - the scrap metal must be packaged properly and adequately
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USA inlands team
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Steven Barcynski
USA inlands team
31 March 2011
CN Prohibited, Restricted and Hazardous Commodities Non-Acceptance/Conditional Acceptance (please also refer to CN
Tariff CN 6800 at ww.cn.ca for more details)
All products defined or characterized as "Waste" or "Waste Dangerous Goods" under the "Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act
(1980 - Statutes of Canada - CH 36)" and the regulations adopted under saimd Act.
Batteries, electric storage, old or used, dry or wet, containing acid or other chemicals -- only acceptalbe in shipper-owned
All Polychlorinated Biphenyl or PCB-contaminated waste.
Poison Inhalation Hazard Material.-- can not be on rail
Carbon blacks - may only be moved in shipper owned equipment.
All waste defined or characterized as hazardous, chemical, industrial or special waste by either the "Principal Environment
Protection Agency of the Government of Canada" or by any regulatory body having jurisdiction over hazardous waste.
Personal automobiles, motorcycles, motorboats, and off-road vehicles are considered personal effects. Only acceptable when the
shipper or consignee performs the packing and unpacking of the container, and when battery terminals are disconnected and the
fuel tank is drained. -- can not accept for cross-border.
Any new or used motorized vehicles (freight and/or passenger) such as automobiles, buses, trucks, highway tractors, including
crushed automobile hulks -- those are prohibited on cross-border.
Scrap metal and metal parts -- may be moved in shipper owned equipment and must be properly described and loaded.
Articles of extraordinary value such as bank bills, coin or currency, deeds, drafts, notes or valuable papers of any kind; jewelry,
postage stamps or letters, precious metals or articles manufactured there from.
Coiled metal -- prohibited on rail.
Cores or assemblies, or fuel blanket assemblies, nuclear reactor, not irradiated, with non-irradiated fuel as described in items
30815 and 30816 of UFC.
Dangerous goods prohibited or otherwise restricted by Transport Canada's Dangerous Good Regulations due to their chemical
composition, temperature sensitivity or means of containment.
Explosives as described in Class A and B of Tariff BOE-6000 series.
Electrical appliances or equipment, or parts, viz.:trainers, air flight, or flight training aids or devices, electronic; or such article
combined with or shipped with communication equipment or outfits, electronic as described in item 35325 of UFC.
Radioactive shipments.
Dangerous goods requiring temperature protection.
Export, import, furtherance shipments by water, or on any traffic received from or delivery to steamship sheds.
Feed animal poultry, fish meal, hides, skins -- may only be moved in shipper owned equipment.
Flex-tank or bladder is prohibited on rail.
Bulk commodities - goods that are loose or in mass and must be shovelled, scooped or forked -- only acceptable in shipper-owned
equipment.
Freight likely to contaminate other freight or railway equipment.
Freight requiring transit privileges unless where specifically identified.
Hazardous materials (STCC 49-series) - unless authorized by CN.
Personal effects including household & second-hand goods as well as settlers' effects or relief goods. -- only accept within Canada
for international shipment and prohibited on crossborder.
House or building sectors, modular, factory manufactured, with or without heating, air conditioner, plumbing, electrical wiring and
fixtures, refrigerators, stove or cabinets installed.
Live creatures, including livestock and poultry.
Traffic because of its nature cannot be transported into containers.
Glass, window, plate or laminated - unless owners agree to transportation under owner's risk of breakage.
Military communications equipment, including missiles, mobile guidance control systems, missile storage or launching apparatus
and related equipment - unless under special permission.
Perishable commodities requiriing mechanical protection from hear or cold -- only acceptable in shipper-owned equipment. Units
using propane fuel or portable heaters will not be accepted for transit.
Outfits, radio repair or public address or television.
Radioactive shipments including low-level radioactive product on trains destined to the United States.
U.S. Mail (of any sort of quantities).
Explosive shipments Class 1.
All goods destined to the USA originating from counties embargoed by the USA, i.e. Cuba & Iraq.
Firearms
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secured to an approved weight distribution devices such as a "Holland Sled" or "Load N Roll Pallet" to distribute weight in the
container. Product not exceeding 312.5 lbs per square foot may be loaded in containers and/or trailers and must be properly
secure against lengthwise and crosswise movement. CN will not be responsible for chipping and/or cracking of material during
transit. The product must not be loaded in intermodal units that are more than ten (10) years old - this is determined on the basis
of the date of the shipment and construction date of the intermodla unit. The maximum gross weight of the load must not exceed
75% of the intermodal unit's rated capacity.
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USA inlands team
31 March 2011