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Albion Mines Railway
Albion Mines Railway, Pictou County, NS, was the second steam railway in Canada and the first to use a standard gauge and split-switch movable rail. Built by the General Mining Association, 4 km of track were opened with great...
Algoma Central Railway
Algoma Central Railway was chartered in 1899 by F.H. CLERGUE as a "feeder line" to his industrial-resource empire at Sault Ste Marie. Originally intended to haul ore, pulp and logs a distance of 260 km from the...
British Columbia Railway
The British Columbia Railway was incorporated as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway in 1912 to build a line from North Vancouver to Prince George, where it was to link up with the GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY. Initially it was...
Canadian Government Railways
Canadian Government Railways was the descriptive name of all federally owned railways in Canada from about the 1880s until 1918, when its operations were combined with the recently nationalized CANADIAN NORTHERN RAILWAY ; in...
Canadian National Railways
Canadian National Railways, incorporated 6 June 1919, is the longest railway system in North America, controlling more than 50 000 km of track in Canada and the US. Now called Canadian National, the CROWN CORPORATION's...
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