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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 20. Chapters: Central Vermont Railway, Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad, Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad, Cobourg and Peterborough Railway, Grand Rapids Terminal Railroad, Grand Trunk Milwaukee Car Ferry Company, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Grand Trunk Western Railroad, Michigan Air Line Railroad, Northern and Pacific Junction Railway, Northern Railway of Canada, Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, Southern New England Railway. Excerpt: The Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company (reporting mark GTW) is an important American subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway (reporting mark CN) operating in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Since a corporate restructuring in 1971 the railroad has been under CN's subsidiary holding company the Grand Trunk Corporation. Grand Trunk Western's routes are part of CN's Midwest Division. Its primary mainline between Chicago, Illinois and Port Huron, Michigan serves as a connection between railroad interchanges in Chicago and rail lines in eastern Canada and the Northeastern United States. The railroad's extensive trackage in Detroit, Michigan and across southern lower Michigan has made it an essential link for the automotive industry as a hauler of parts and automobiles from manufacturing plants. A 1912 postcard of the Grand Trunk Depot at Charlotte, Michigan built in 1885 by GTW predecessor Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway 1887 map of Grand Trunk Western predecessor routesGrand Trunk Western grew out of a collection of rail lines which included: Grand Trunk Western began as a route for the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada (GTR) to link its line to Chicago through lower Michigan. GTR's objective was to have a mainline from shipping ports in Portland, Maine to rail connections in Chicago through southern Ontario and Quebec that would serve Toronto and Montreal.In 1859 the...