Strictly speaking, Grand Trunk Western is not a “fallen flag.” GTW still reports to regulators as a separate Class I railroad ...

DETROIT, Friday, Dec. 16. A terrible accident occurred on the Grand Trunk Railway last night, caused by a collision with a westward-bound passenger train with a freight train, near this city.

Canada already had two transcontinental railroads, the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian Northern, so why not a third?

Here, on Grand Trunk's main line between Canada and the US, one of Biograph's early production crews rode the pilot of a locomotive from Sarnia, Ontario to Port Huron, MI. The film features a view ...