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List Of Canadian National Railways Companies
The following were component companies of the Canadian National Railways in 1962, or predecessors of such companies: __NOTOC__ A * Acadia Coal Company * Addison Railroad * Alberta and Great Waterways Railway * Alberta Midland Railway * Albert Railway *Alexander Gibson Railway and Manufacturing Company * American Union Telegraph Company *Amherst and Belchertown Railroad *Amherst, Belchertown and Palmer Railroad *Anglo-American Telegraph Company * Annapolis and Atlantic Railway *Atlantic and Lake Superior Railway *Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad * Atlantic, Quebec and Western Railway * Autoport Limited *Aquatrain B *Baie des Chaleurs Railway * Barre Granite Railway * Bay City Terminal Railway * Bay of Chaleurs Railway *Bay of Quinte Railway and Navigation Company *Bay of Quinte Railway *Beauharnois Junction Railway *Belleville and North Hastings Railway *Belt Railway of ChicagoBelt Railway of Chicago, History''. Retrieved January 31, 2006. * Bessborough Hotel *Bessemer and Barry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian National Railways
The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I railroad, Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern United States, Midwestern and Southern United States. CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue and the physical size of its rail network, spanning Canada from the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia to the Pacific coast in British Columbia across approximately of track. In the late 20th century, CN gained extensive capacity in the United States by taking over such railroads as the Illinois Central. CN is a public company with 22,600 employees, and it has a market cap of approximately CA$90 billion. CN was government-owned, having been a Crown corporations of Canada, Canadian Crown corporation from its founding in 1919 until being privatized in 1995. , Bill Gates is the largest single shareholder of CN stock, owning a 14.2% interest throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baie Des Chaleurs Railway
The Chemin de fer Baie des Chaleurs (in English, the Chaleur Bay Railway) was a short line railway that operated in eastern Québec from 1996 to 2007. Owned by the holding company Quebec Railway Corporation (QRC), CBC operated freight service between Matapédia in the west to Chandler and later Gaspé in the east. 1996 establishment The Chemin de fer Baie des Chaleurs was established on 1 December 1996 as a subsidiary of QRC to operate the former Canadian National Railway (CN) Cascapedia Subdivision between Matapédia and New Carlisle as well as the western half of the Chandler Subdivision between New Carlisle and Chandler. This transaction did not include the eastern half of the Chandler Subdivision between Chandler and Gaspé, however, this track was purchased on 16 June 1997 from CN by a non-profit corporation owned by local municipalities called Société de chemin de fer de la Gaspésie (SCFG). Operation of the eastern half of the Chandler Subdivision was then sub-co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brantford And Buffalo Joint Stock Railroad
Brantford (Canada 2021 Census, 2021 population: 104,688) is a city in Ontario, Canada, founded on the Grand River (Ontario), Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. It is surrounded by County of Brant, Brant County, but is politically separate with a municipal government of its own that is fully independent of the county's municipal government. Brantford is situated on the Haldimand Tract, traditional territory of the Neutral Nation, Neutral, Mississaugas, Mississauga, and Haudenosaunee peoples. The city is named after Joseph Brant, an important Mohawk leader, soldier, farmer and slave owner. Brant was an important Loyalist (American Revolution), Loyalist leader during the American Revolutionary War and later, after the Haudenosaunee moved to the Brantford area in Upper Canada. Many of his descendants, and other First Nations in Canada, First Nations people, live on the nearby Six Nations of the Grand River reserve south of Brantford; it is the most populous reserve in Canada. Bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bethel Granite Railway
The Central Vermont Railway was a railroad that operated in the U.S. states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont, as well as the Canadian province of Quebec. It connected Montreal, Quebec, with New London, Connecticut, using a route along the shores of Lake Champlain, through the Green Mountains and along the Connecticut River valley, as well as Montreal to Boston, Massachusetts, through a connection with the Boston and Maine Railroad at White River Junction, Vermont. History The Vermont Central Railroad was chartered October 31, 1843, to build a line across the center of Vermont, running from Burlington on Lake Champlain east to Montpelier, and then southeast and south to Windsor on the Connecticut River. Initial plans had the main line running through Montpelier. However, due to the difficulty of building through the Williamstown Gulf, a narrow valley south of Barre, Vermont, and to land interests of Charles Paine in Northfield, Vermont, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bessemer And Barry's Bay Railway
The Central Ontario Railway (COR) was a former railway that ran north from Trenton, Ontario to service a number of towns, mines, and sawmills. Originally formed as the Prince Edward County Railway in 1879, it ran between Picton, Ontario, Picton and Trenton, where it connected with the Grand Trunk Railway that ran between Montreal and Toronto. After being purchased by a group of investors and receiving a new charter to build northward, the company was renamed the Central Ontario Railway in 1882, and it started building towards the gold fields at Madoc, Ontario (township), Eldorado and newly discovered iron fields in Coe Hill. On reaching Coe Hill in 1884, the mine was found to have low-grade ore, nearly bankrupting the company. Expansion continued to other mining areas around Bancroft, Ontario, Bancroft, along with two-wholly owned subsidiary lines, the Ontario, Belmont and Northern Railway, later known as the Marmora Railway, and the Bessemer and Barry's Bay Railway. The later was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bessborough Hotel
The Delta Hotels Bessborough, formerly and commonly known as the Bessborough (), is a historic hotel in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The hotel is within the Central Business District, a commercial district in Saskatoon. The Bessborough was designed by Archibald and Schofield for Canadian National Hotels, a division of Canadian National Railway. Opened in 1935, the Châteauesque-styled building is , containing 10 floors. The building is considered one of Canada's grand railway hotels. After its completion, the building was the tallest building in Saskatoon, until the nearby Marquis Tower was completed in 1966. The hotel is owned by Leadon Investment Inc., although it is managed by Delta Hotels, a hotel chain brand of Marriott International. Location The Delta Bessborough is located at 601 Spadina Crescent East at the southeastern end of the Central Business District, the commercial centre of Saskatoon. The hotel property is bounded by a roadway, and a natural waterway, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belt Railway Of Chicago
The Belt Railway Company of Chicago , headquartered in Bedford Park, IL, is the largest switching terminal railroad in the United States. It is co-owned by six Class I railroads — BNSF Railway, Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway (the BRC's north-south main line's northern terminus is, like the Indiana Harbor Belt, the Milwaukee District West Line in Chicago's Cragin neighborhood), CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern Railway, and Union Pacific Railroad — each of which uses the switching and interchange facilities of the BRC. Owner lines and other railroads bring their trains to the Belt Railway to be separated, classified, and re-blocked into new trains for departure. The BRC also provides rail terminal services to approximately 100 local manufacturing industries. The company employs about 440 people, including its own police force. BRC trackage The BRC has 28 miles (45 km) of mainline route with interchanges to each of its owner railroads, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belleville And North Hastings Railway
The Belleville and North Hastings Railway (B&NHR) was a Shortline railroad, short-line railway in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. It branched off the Grand Junction Railway (Ontario), Grand Junction Railway (GJR) north of Belleville, Ontario, Belleville and ended on the Central Ontario Railway (COR) outside Eldorado, Ontario, Eldorado for a total distance of . In spite of its name, the line did not reach either Belleville or the northern part of Hastings County. The line was completed in January 1880 and leased to the GJR in June that year. Both companies were merged into the Midland Railway of Canada in 1881, part of the Midland's efforts to consolidate a number of unprofitable lines east of Toronto. The section north of Madoc offered nothing the COR lacked and closed in 1893. The section from Madoc, Ontario (village), Madoc remained in use until the 1980s as a branch line of Canadian National Railway, CN known as the Madoc Subdivision. This section eventually closed in 1984. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauharnois Junction Railway
Beauharnois may refer to: *An alternative spelling of French House of Beauharnais Canada Members of the House of Beauharnais * Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois (1670–1749), Governor General of North-American New France (fr: ''Nouvelle-France''); places carrying his name, including: Beauharnois, Quebec and Fort Beauharnois, Minnesota * Claude de Beauharnois de Beaumont et de Villechauve (1674–1738), French naval officer * François de Beauharnois de la Chaussaye, Baron de Beauville (1660s–1746), French naval and colonial administrator in France and in New France (''Nouvelle-France'') Places * Beauharnois (electoral district) * Beauharnois (Province of Canada electoral district) * Beauharnois (provincial electoral district) * Beauharnois, Quebec * Beauharnois Canal * Fort Beauharnois * Beauharnois—Laprairie * Beauharnois—Salaberry * Beauharnois-Salaberry Regional County Municipality, Quebec Other * Battle of Beauharnois * Beauharnois scandal * - Canadian Flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay Of Quinte Railway
The Bay of Quinte Railway was a short-line railway in eastern Ontario, Canada. It was formed as the Napanee, Tamworth and Quebec Railway (NT&QR), chartered in 1878 by Edward Rathbun and Alexander Campbell, with plans to run from Napanee through Renfrew County and on to the Ottawa Valley. Lacking funding from the governments, development never began. Rathburn took over the charter in 1881. He started construction with the shorter Bay of Quinte Railway and Navigation Company (BQR&NC) that ran from his factories in Deseronto to the Grand Trunk Railway mainline at Napanee. Construction on the NT&QR out of Napanee through Yarkers to Tamworth started the same year, but was abandoned by the contractor and Rathburn had to pay the workers out of pocket. The line finally opened to Tamworth in 1884. In 1889 it was extended westward to Tweed while a branch eastward from Yarker to Harrowsmith connected to the Kingston and Pembroke Railway with running rights to Kingston. In 1890 the line ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay Of Quinte Railway And Navigation Company
The Bay of Quinte Railway was a short-line railway in eastern Ontario, Canada. It was formed as the Napanee, Tamworth and Quebec Railway (NT&QR), chartered in 1878 by Edward Rathbun and Alexander Campbell, with plans to run from Napanee through Renfrew County and on to the Ottawa Valley. Lacking funding from the governments, development never began. Rathburn took over the charter in 1881. He started construction with the shorter Bay of Quinte Railway and Navigation Company (BQR&NC) that ran from his factories in Deseronto to the Grand Trunk Railway mainline at Napanee. Construction on the NT&QR out of Napanee through Yarkers to Tamworth started the same year, but was abandoned by the contractor and Rathburn had to pay the workers out of pocket. The line finally opened to Tamworth in 1884. In 1889 it was extended westward to Tweed while a branch eastward from Yarker to Harrowsmith connected to the Kingston and Pembroke Railway with running rights to Kingston. In 1890 the line ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
