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The Grand Trunk Head Office in Montreal, built in 1900. The Grand Trunk Railway ((reporting mark GT); French: Grand Tronc) was a railway system that operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and in the American states of Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. [1]
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.
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.
By 1857, the Grand Trunk Railway had also proposed the crossing. The Dominion of Canada and the New York State Legislature drafted an agreement for construction of the bridge. Engineering surveys and fundraising took place over the next several years. Construction of the bridge was recognized as a major technological challenge.
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]
Grand Trunk railway stations or Grand Trunk railroad stations may refer to former and active passenger rail stations built for the Grand Trunk Railway or its subsidiaries the Grand Trunk Western Railroad and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. In the United States, some of these stations are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
New Jersey line at Suffern; continues as I-287 / NJ 17: 1924 Longest state highway in New York;Concurrent with I-86 from Pennsylvania state line to Woodbury,where that section from Windsor to Woodbury designated as future I-86 NY 17A: 24.61 39.61 US 6 / NY 17 / NY 17M / NY 207 in Goshen: NY 17 in Tuxedo: 1930 NY 17B: 21.86 35.18 NY 97 in Delaware
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 ...