Ross was chief engineer for Canada's Grand Trunk Railway, including the Victoria Bridge over the St. Lawrence River.
The railway, taken over by the Canada Atlantic Railway in 1899, was in turn sold to the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) in 1905.
However, it was left up to him, a working man with meager resources (he was a brakeman at the Grand Trunk Railway), to finance his journey to Athens.
The Grand Trunk Railway was constructed through the valley by 1914, and development hastened thereafter.
Rising concerns over the security of railways in Canada while the Civil War raged in the United States led to the 1862 creation of the Grand Trunk Railway Brigade.
Given its location next to Montreal's main train station, the Windsor served for years as the permanent residence of executives of both the Canadian Pacific Railway and Grand Trunk Railway.
The large contingent of British troops debarked passenger trains at the station and were then driven by horse drawn sleigh up the Saint John River and then across to the St Lawrence to Levis (opposite Quebec City) where they re-boarded passenger trains operated by the Grand Trunk Railway.
Château Laurier was commissioned by Grand Trunk Railway president Charles Melville Hays, and was constructed for $2 million, between 1909 and 1912 in tandem with Ottawa's downtown Union Station (now the Government Conference Centre) across the street.
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Laurier's government was also subsidizing the Grand Trunk Railway's Pacific Line.
The original swing bridge was a made of wood, and only carried a single rail line, operated by the Grand Trunk Railway.
The northern section, by contrast, was an industrial centre, home to the Grand Trunk Railway's main yards.
He was also a director of the Central Vermont Railway, Vice President of the Missisquoi Railroad, an officer of the National Dispatch Line (part of the Grand Trunk Line), and Vice President of the St. Albans Messenger.
Glyn's bank served as one of the London agents for the provincial government of Canada, and in 1852 he was a promoter of the Grand Trunk Railway.
At the same time that Allan was falling out with the Grand Trunk Railway, the Canadian government had committed to building a railway across to British Columbia.
Near the foot of the street at Springhurst Avenue and Jameson, the South Parkdale railway station was built in 1879, on the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR).
He again served as commissioner of public works from 1852 to 1855, also representing the government on the board of directors of the Grand Trunk Railway.
He successfully lobbied the federal government for a small railway station on the Grand Trunk Railway line in Moulinette.
He was raised and educated in Brighton, Vermont, and was employed as a general storekeeper (matériel manager) for the Central Vermont, Canadian National and Grand Trunk railroads.
He supported representation by population and opposed government subsidies to the Grand Trunk Railway.
Before embarking on a riding career, Otto Wonderly worked as a newsboy for the Grand Trunk Railway.
This rail line was built in the 1850s by the Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad which was purchased by the Grand Trunk Railway shortly after completion.
Rivals Grand Trunk Railway and Great Western Railway arrived in Toronto to compete with OS&H.
The St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad opened between Montreal and Portland, Maine, on April 4, 1853 and was purchased four months later and absorbed into the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR)'s system.
From 1853 he was engaged by Peto & Betts, initially designing the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada.
Another impetus to its development came a few years later in 1854, when the Grand Trunk Railway was built through the area, followed by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1887.
After the construction of the Grand Trunk Railway tracks north of Eglinton Avenue, Kingston Road had decreased in traffic and few businesses began to close.
In the 1890s, the Oxford County Courthouse moved from Paris Hill to be near the Grand Trunk Railway station.
He experimented by moving dressed (cut) meat using a string of ten boxcars which ran with their doors removed, and made a few test shipments to New York during the winter months over the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR).
The little harbour disappeared in the late 1870s with the arrival of the Grand Trunk Railway.
The term's previous use in railway track terminology (e.g., India's Grand Trunk Road, Canada's Grand Trunk Railway), which came from the natural models mentioned above, was the other obvious influence.
It is with the creation of the Grand Trunk Railway that people began to live in Dorion, which was called Vaudreuil Station.
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The #47 was built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in September 1914 for the Grand Trunk Railway as its number 1542, class K2, but became a CN locomotive after the creation of the Canadian National Railway in 1923.
In 1906, both the Midland Railway of Canada and the Grand Trunk Railway had multiple buildings in Port Hope, including freight and car repair facilities, operating several spur lines to the harbour wharfs.
The OA&PS Railway through Seguin Falls, locally known as the Grand Trunk was taken over by the Grand Trunk Railway in 1904, which was subsequently absorbed by Canadian National Railways in 1923.
Born in Melbourne, Quebec, the son of Melbourne McTaggart Tait, Tait entered the service of the Grand Trunk Railway in 1880, and by 1903 he was manager of transportation with Canadian Pacific Railway company.