This Weekend in CNR History
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September 20, 1850 The first Federal Land Grant is approved, for the Illinois Central.
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September 21, 1856 The Illinois Central connects Chicago with Cairo IL, making it the longest railway line in the United States.
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September 21 1906 A Grand Trunk Railway passenger train hits a freight at a crossing in Napanee ON. The engineer of the passenger train stayed at the controls of the locomotive trying to stop the train, becoming the only fatality. A monument is erected in his honor.
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September 22, 1883 The Grand Trunk Railway fully acquires the Midland Railway of Canada.
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September 22, 1928 Canadian Premier John Bracken drives the last spike on? the Canadian National’s line between Flin Flon and Cranberry Portage MB.
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Mark Tomlonson
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