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The Canadian National Railway Company [a] (French: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) (reporting mark CN) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.
The Joliet Subdivision is a railroad subdivision of the Canadian National Railway in the Chicago metropolitan area.The 33-mile route runs from Joliet, Illinois to Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood, largely paralleling the route of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. [1]
The railway to the Pacific, the Canadian Pacific, was financed by private funds and through massive land grants in the Canadian prairies (much of it of little value until the railway arrived), $25 million in cash and a guaranteed monopoly. The railway, an engineering marvel that was then the longest in the world, was completed in 1885 to great ...
The Government of Canada created a new entity, the Canadian Government Railways (CGR), which was known under the slogan The People's Railway, to manage a number of smaller railways it had acquired around this time. In 1917, the federal government effectively took control of the Canadian Northern, and in 1918 the company's board resigned and was ...
Canadian National Railway's Kingston Subdivision, or Kingston Sub for short, is a major railway line connecting Toronto with Montreal that carries the majority of CN traffic between these points. The line was originally the main trunk for the Grand Trunk Railway between these cities, although there has been some realignment of the route between ...
On September 21 2019, the Canadian Railway Preservation and Restoration Association (CRPRA) expressed their interest in that section of the Newmarket Sub to operate a local tourism train. [ 4 ] The CN Newmarket Sub hasn't seen a passenger train on its tracks since the last remaining passenger service, the Northlander , which ended service in 2012.
The Mackenzie Northern Railway (reporting mark RLGN) is a 602-mile (969 km) Canadian railway operating in Alberta and the Northwest Territories. [1] It is the northernmost trackage of the contiguous North American railway network. [ 2 ]
The Hamilton and North-Western merged with the Northern Railway of Canada in 1879 to form the Northern and Northwestern Railway, then became a part of the Grand Trunk conglomerate in 1888, and was inherited with it into the Canadian National Railways in 1923. [9] It became known as the CN Milton Subdivision. [8]