March 10, 2009 Canadian National routes its first two trains over the former Elgin, Joliet & Eastern. CN's purchase of the line was finalized on January 31. Traffic is expected to grow to six daily trains in the near future.
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March 12, 1857 The locomotive, mail car and two first class coaches of a Great Western Railway train from Toronto to Hamilton ON plunge 60 feet into the frozen Desjardins Canal after the bridge collapses. Seventy persons die from trauma, drowning, or exposure. Only 20 passengers survive. (Some sources say 59 people killed in total.)
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Mark Tomlonson
