Identifier: railwaylocomotiv21newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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cers and Men on Common Ground 4»t Rt!!S£L Engineering Copyright by Angus Sinclair Co.—1908 A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances Vol. XXI. 114 Liberty Street, New York, December, 1908 No. 12 The International Limited.The Grand Trunk System owns andoperates what was the first railway in theDominion of Canada, and the second onthis continent. In 1853 the Grand TrunkRailway of Canada was projected. Itwas intended to be a main trunk line as plans and arrangements had beencarefully made in advance. On someportions of the road one rail onlj wasshifted over against marker spikes, drivenso as to approximately give the new po-sition of the rail, then the track was ac-curately gauged and the rail spiked in early days it did business at first withIrs, than twenty miles of line connectingMontreal with St. Johns, Que. As theDominion developed, the road was cx-tended to Toronto. The line from Niag-ara Kails to Sarnia was acquired andother lines were absorbed, until 1
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THE IMPERIAL LIMITED ON THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY OF CANADA. of railway throughout the province.This road absorbed several of the ex-isting smaller lines of railway, the prin-cipal one of which was the St. Lawrenceand Atlantic which was leased in per-petuity. The Grand Trunk was original-ly 5 ft. 6 ins. gauge, but in 1873 it waschanged to the standard 4 ft. 8l/2 ins.The change of gauge was accomplishedvery rapidly when the work was started, place. Many interesting details concern-ing the early history of this pioneer rail-way of Canada are to be found in Dr.Sinclairs well known work on the De-velopment of the Locomotive Engine inthe chapter devoted to Railway Develop-ment in Canada, written by Mr. George S.Hodgins. The Grand Trunk, as we have said,was a road of small beginnings; in the the whole is called the Grand Trunk Sys-tem. The present Eastern terminus is atPortland, Me., the western terminus, inChicago. Thus it is an internationalline. Just now a new line is being builtfrom the A

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