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Maps of the Grand Trunk Railway 1857, and its connections, c1860; Report for submission to the shareholders of the Grand Trunk Railway in 1860; Collections Canada: History of the Grand Trunk Railway; Grand Trunk Railway Engineer Department: Road section foreman's wage and material book for years 1866-1874 (Trent University Archives) [dead link
His efforts resulted in Portland being selected as the seaport for the Canadian transcontinental Grand Trunk Railway in 1845. [7] 1849 Railroad Map of New England & Eastern New York. The first railroad in Connecticut was the New York and Stonington Railroad, which was chartered in May 1832 and began construction in 1833. [9]
Map of the planned route. The Southern New England Railway was a project of the Grand Trunk Railway (GT) to build a railroad from the GT-owned Central Vermont Railway at Palmer, Massachusetts south and east to the all-weather port of Providence, Rhode Island.
Route of the Grand Trunk Road. The Grand Trunk Road (formerly known as Uttarapath, Sadak-e-Azam, Shah Rah-e-Azam, Badshahi Sadak, and Long Walk) [1] is one of Asia's oldest and longest major roads. For at least 2,500 years [3] it has linked Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent.
The backers of the Whitehall and Plattsburgh Railroad had attempted to establish a railway line along the west side of Lake Champlain via the Ausable River valley. [1] The effort sputtered out in 1870–1871, leaving two disconnected railway lines: a 21-mile (34 km) line between Plattsburgh, New York, and Ausable, New York, and a 15-mile (24 km) line between Port Henry, New York, and Fort ...
The Grand Trunk, Great Western, Canada Southern Railway, Erie, New York Central and New York, West Shore and Chicago were all prepared to begin using the bridge soon after opening day. [4] There were conflicts between the various companies using the bridge, including one where the Canada Southern Railway filed suit over the excessive rate of $1 ...
1887 map with connections. The Montreal and Vermont Junction Railway was chartered in 1860 and opened in the 1860s, extending the Vermont and Canada's branch from the international border north to St. Johns, Quebec, on the Grand Trunk Railway's Montreal and Champlain Railroad. From opening, it was operated as an extension of the Vermont and Canada.
Grand Trunk established its own route to Chicago across Michigan when the New York Central Railroad's William Henry Vanderbilt took over control of the Michigan Central in 1878. [5] GTR sought to put together a route by acquiring three railroads it had already been sending some of its Chicago-bound trains on since 1877. [ 4 ]