Grand Trunk Corporation

The Grand Trunk Corporation ( GTW ) is a Class 1 railroad in the United States. The company is Montreal. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian National Railway ( CN). It is responsible for the overall activities of the CN railway in the United States.

She is traveling a distance of 10,447 km, of which 9680 km in its own possession. The company had 2003 649 locomotives, 6,214 employees and generated sales of $ 1.54 billion at 1.175 million carloads.

History

On 20 December 1918, decided with the establishment of the State Canadian National Railways to take over the bankrupt or threatened by bankruptcy railways in Canada. In this context, the Grand Trunk Railway System ( GTR) and its subsidiary Grand Trunk Western ( GTW ) was intended to take over. On May 21, 1920 This takeover was completed. Due to disputes with the former shareholders, the merger was not completed until January 30, 1923.

As a result, the Grand Trunk Western for the routes from Port Huron and Detroit to Chicago and Grand Trunk Eastern for the connection between Iceland Pond to Portland was. This was, however, with the merger no longer independent but was integrated into the network of the CN and was operated as Berlin Subdivison.

In the 1960s, the name was changed to the locomotives of GTW in GT and displayed similar to the CN logo.

In 1970 the Grand Trunk Corporation was established as a holding company by the Canadian National Railways as part of a restructuring. In this society the CN Grand Trunk Western daughters, Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway and the Central Vermont Railway and the Grand Trunk Eastern were integrated. The latter was founded in 1989 (later RailAmerica ) sold to the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad and the Central Vermont 1995 RAILTEX.

The later acquisitions of the CN Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad (1997 resold to RAILTEX (later RailAmerica ) ), Wisconsin Central Ltd.. , Illinois Central Railroad and Great Lakes Transportation were the Grand Trunk Corporation assumed.

Introduced in the 1960s color scheme of the Canadian National Railway in red -white-black is also applied to the locomotives of the Grand Trunk Corporation or its subsidiaries since 1995. The membership is only recognizable by the AAR code at the cab.

  • Company (United States)
  • Established in 1923
  • Class 1 railway company
  • Company ( Montreal)
Port Huron, Michigan Island Pond, Vermont
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