Question: The Alberta Coal Branch is the name given to a segment of the Canadian National Railway, a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec that serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States, having been a Canadian Crown corporation from its founding to its privatization in which year?
Context: Mountain Park is a ghost town in western Alberta, south of Cadomin, at the end of the historic Alberta Coal Branch line of the Canadian National Railway (originally the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway). The Alberta Coal Branch is the name given to a segment of the Canadian National Railway (originally the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway) and the region through which it passes.  It is located within Yellowhead County in west-central Alberta, Canada. The Goderich–Exeter Railway (reporting mark GEXR) is a short line freight railway that operates around 181 mi of track in Southern Ontario.  Created in 1992, it was the first short line railway in Canada to be purchased from a class I railway, in this case Canadian National Railway (CN).  It took over operation of further CN trackage in 1998.  As of 2004, the railway has 44 employees.  It is headquartered in Stratford, Ontario, and owned by short-line railroad holding company Genesee & Wyoming. The Canadian National Railway Company (French: "Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada" ) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec that serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.  CN's slogan is ""North America's Railroad"".  CN is a public company with 24,000 employees.  It had a market capitalization of 32 billion CAD in 2011.  CN was government-owned, having been a Canadian Crown corporation from its founding to its privatization in 1995.  Bill Gates was, in 2011, the largest single shareholder of CN stock. Canada has a large and well-developed railway system that today transports primarily freight.  There are two major publicly traded transcontinental freight railway systems, Canadian National and Canadian Pacific.  Nationwide passenger services are provided by the federal crown corporation Via Rail.  Three Canadian cities have commuter train services: in the Montreal area by Réseau de transport métropolitain, in the Toronto area by GO Transit, and in the Vancouver area by West Coast Express.  These cities and several others are also served by light rail or metro systems.  Only one (Toronto) has an extensive streetcar (tram) system.  Smaller railways such as Ontario Northland Railway and Algoma Central Railway also run passenger trains to remote rural areas.  The Rocky Mountaineer and Royal Canadian Pacific provide luxury rail tours for viewing scenery in the Canadian Rockies as well as other mountainous areas of British Columbia and Alberta. Mercoal, a former coal mining town, is located in the Yellowhead County of western Alberta, Canada.  It was one of several communities along the historic Coal Branch segment of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (now part of the Canadian National Railway), which included Embarras, Robb, Coalspur, Coal Valley, Cadomin, Luscar, and Mountain Park.  At its peak in the late 1940s and early 1950s the town had over 800 residents.  Mercoal declined after the mines closed in 1959, and it is now essentially a ghost town with only a small number of summer residences remaining.  It is situated on Highway 40, 70 km southwest of Edson, 8 km (5 mi) west of Coalspur. Canadian National Railway's "Beachburg Subdivision" or "Beachburg Sub" for short, was part of former Transcontinental Mainline.  The Beachburg Sub connected Ottawa, Ontario to Brent, Ontario.  The Line began operating in 1915 as part of Canadian Northern Railway then later in 1923 it became Canadian National Railway.  The route passed through Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada.  Achray, Ontario being one station in the park with a passing track on the mainline.  The final train through the park was an eastbound freight on November 24,1995.  Abandonment from Pembroke,Ont.  west to Brent, Ont.  went through and the rail was lifted at Pembroke west through the park and was completed by September 1997.  Remaining line went from Ottawa MP 0.0 to Pembroke MP 88.7 Canadian Patents and Development Limited (CPDL) was a Canadian agency tasked with promoting the commercialization of inventions and discoveries arising from government departments and agencies, as well as those disclosed to it by universities and others publicly funded organizations.  The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) founded CPDL on October 24, 1947, as a subsidiary Crown Corporation under part 1 of the Canadian Companies Act (now Canadian Corporations Act).  As a subsidiary of the NRC, CPDL was charged with handling the assessment, patenting, development, and licensing of the intellectual property developed by the scientific workers of the NRC.  Soon after its incorporation, CPDL began making its services available to Canadian universities and other publicly financed organizations.  The number of Canadian agencies and departments reporting inventions to CPDL increased substantially in 1954 with the enactment of the Public Servants’ Inventions Act, which made CPDL eligible to accept and manage the inventions arising from all federal departments and agencies.  Despite its broad mandate and many agreements, CPDL was noted by university administrators as possessing inadequate resources to effectively manage inventions for all of Canada’s universities, while the industry consensus “was that CPDL's work was under-publicized, under-supported, undersold and under-followed-up.”  On February 20, 1990, the Minister of Finance announced the planned dissolution of CPDL as part of a larger government commitment to reducing the size of government and improving the efficiency of public services.  A few months later, the Crown Corporation Dissolution or Transfer Authorization Bill (Bill C-73) was introduced to parliament to facilitate the closure of several crown corporations and the transfer of their responsibilities.  The bill authorized the Minister of Industry, Science, and Technology to dissolve CPDL, and made government departments and agencies responsible for managing their own intellectual property.  Following the Crown Corporation Dissolution or Transfer Authorization Bill, all CPDL agreements with Canadian universities were terminated, and all patented faculty inventions held by CPDL were transferred back to each respective university.  On August 1, 1993 CPDL ceased all operations. The Last Mountain Railway (reporting mark LMR) is a Canadian short line railway company and subsidiary of Mobil Grain Ltd.  LMR operates on trackage between Regina and Davidson in Saskatchewan, established in 2009.  The trackage was formerly operated by Canadian National Railway, the LMR interlines with Canadian National in both Regina and Davidson.  This subdivision is part of the former Canadian National line that links Regina and Saskatoon.  Freight railway stations along the line include Davidson, Girvin, Craik, Aylesbury, Chamberlain, Findlater, Bethune, Disley, Lumsden, Condie and Regina.  All locomotives used on LMR are owned by Mobil Grain (MGLX) and also utilized on their sister company, Big Sky Rail Corp. Railway Lands is an area in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  The former Railway Lands was a large railway switching yard near the Toronto waterfront, including the CNR Spadina Roundhouse and the CPR John Roundhouse, but has since been redeveloped and today is home to mostly mixed-used development, including the CN Tower and the Rogers Centre.  The lands were owned and maintained by the Canadian National Railway and later transferred to the federal crown corporation Canada Lands Company.  The area is bounded by Front Street, Yonge Street, Gardiner Expressway and Bathurst Street.  The western portion of the Railway Lands is now part of the CityPlace neighbourhood and the eastern portion is now called South Core.
Answer: 1995