The Grand Trunk Railway ((reporting mark GT); French: Grand Tronc) was a railway system that operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and in the American states of Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. [1]

2006年2月7日 · In late 19th Century, the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada was the major railroad in the Province of Canada (Ontario and Quebec), connecting Toronto to Montreal. In the 20th Century, the British-owned railroad would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

The Grand Trunk Railway (reporting mark GT; French: Grand Tronc) was a railway system that operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and in the American states of Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

At its zenith the Grand Trunk Railway was an impressive operation, maintaining its own 800-mile corridor from Portland, Maine to Sarnia while also linking Montreal, Quebec, and Toronto. In addition, it controlled the Central Vermont along with the Michigan roads.

By the year of Canada’s confederation in 1867, fourteen years before the arguably more famous Canadian Pacific Railway had even been chartered, the Grand Trunk Railway achieved the title of the longest railway system in the world at 2,055 km (1,277 mi) of track.

The Grand Trunk Railway (G.T.R.) was officially opened between Sarnia, Ontario, and Portland, Maine, on November 21, 1859. This first version of the G.T.R. did not run through Hamilton, Ontario; instead, it ran north of Hamilton through Toronto and Guelph.

2025年1月8日 · Grand Trunk Railway, early Canadian railway line, incorporated in 1852–53 to build a railway connecting the key cities of the Province of Canada (the area now known as Ontario and Quebec) with the American seacoast city of Portland, Maine.

2020年1月20日 · Grand Trunk Railway. Conceived in 1851 by Francis Hincks, co-premier of the Province of Canada, as a trunkline uniting the British North American colonies, the Grand Trunk railway had been put together by the amalgamation of existing lines and the construction of long sections joining them.

From the mid to late 19th century, the British-owned Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) dominated the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The GTR arrived in the mid 1850s with the opening of a much-needed line between Montreal and Toronto. By 1859, it stretched as far west as Sarnia, and as far east as Portland, Maine in the US.

The Grand Trunk Railway Company was incorporated in 1853 to construct the key railway of eastern Canada, intended to serve all the important cities in Ontario and Quebec, and to connect them with Chicago at its western end, and Portland, Maine, on the sea-coast, at its eastern end.