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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;glaciermi, post: 174570, member: 4097&quot;]courtesy of Wikipedia... I find it extremely interesting myself <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>In 1880 the Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway was crated by Canada&#039;s Grand Trunk Railway System, GTR, to build a line linking Canada to Chicago across lower Michigan. GTR, predecessor to the Canadian National Railway, CNR, wanted to avoid the expensive cost of using Cornelius Vanderbilt&#039;s Michigan Central Railroad as a way into Chicago. The route eventually became the Grand Trunk Western Railway which was amalgamated into the Canadian National Railway in 1923. On May 9, 1928 Canadian National consolidated all of its rail lines in Michigan, Illinois and Indiana and formed the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, a separate company owned by CNR that operated its routes in the United States.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Trivia</i></p><p><i>In 1859, a 12 year-old Thomas A. Edison was given his first job as a newsboy on the Grand Trunk line between Port Huron and Detroit. </i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>OOPS.. my mistake.. it&#039;s the competitor.....!!</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><i>The Michigan Central Railroad operated in the states of Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois in the United States, and the province of Ontario in Canada. It was a predecessor of the New York Central Railroad, which later became part of Penn Central and then Conrail. With the 1998 Conrail breakup, Norfolk Southern now owns much of the former Michigan Central trackage.</i></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>didn&#039;t see the M.C.R.R. on the bottom!!</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><a href="http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Railroads/MichiganCentral/MichiganCentralHomePage.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Railroads/MichiganCentral/MichiganCentralHomePage.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Railroads/MichiganCentral/MichiganCentralHomePage.htm</a></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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