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Grand Trunk Locomotive Trevithick utilized on the Victoria Bridge, Montreal, 1859. The company was incorporated on November 10, 1852, as the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada to build a railway line between Montreal and Toronto. [2] The charter was soon extended east to Portland, Maine and west to Sarnia, Canada West.
The Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) managed and operated the entire line. Largely constructed 1907–1914, the GTPR operated 1914–1919, prior to nationalization as the Canadian National Railway (CNR). Despite poor decision-making by the various levels of government and the railway management, the GTPR established local employment opportunities, a ...
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. Much grading and construction, including many large concrete supports, was carried out, but the project was not ...
Between 1926 and 1930, Grand Trunk constructed a new line from Detroit to Pontiac, and in October 1930 began construction of this depot in Birmingham. They hired the Detroit firm of Walbridge and Aldinger to construct the building, and it and the line was completed by the middle of 1931. [3]
The first rail line through Lansing was established in 1856 when the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad constructed a line through the city. This was followed in 1872 by the Michigan Central Railroad and in 1879 by the Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway. By the early 1900s there were six separate rail lines through the city.
Grand Trunk Western began as a route for the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) to link its line to Chicago through lower Michigan. GTR's objective was to have a mainline from shipping ports in Portland, Maine, to rail connections in Chicago through the southern part of the Province of Canada that would serve Toronto and Montreal.
Brighton's rail history dates to the October 27, 1856 opening of the Grand Trunk line from Montréal to Toronto. The current-day Maplewood Street was Railroad Street, agriculture was slowly displacing forestry as the primary local industry and communities long reliant on water transport were eagerly awaiting the rails as a means of access to ...
The railroad of Grand Trunk Western Railway Company, herein called the Grand Trunk Western, is a standard-gauge steam railroad, situated in the States of Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. Its main line extends from Port Huron, Mich., to Chicago, Ill., 329.455 miles, of which 321.191 miles are double track.