November 19, 1847 The second rail line in Canada, the 12 km Montreal & Lachine Railway (later M&NY, M&C, GT), opens.

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November 19, 1906 Passenger service begins on the Canadian Northern between Toronto and Parry Sound. This is the first 140 miles of Canadian National's eventual main line to western Canada.

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November 19, 1990 The Grand Trunk car ferry "City of Milwaukee" makes its last trip. She has been preserved at Manistee MI.

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November 19, 1995 The railway portion of CN North America is renamed Canadian National Railway and becomes a publicly traded company. (Some sources say November 17)

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Mark Tomlonson

November 18, 1883 The railroads in the United States and Canada agree to a system of standard time, replacing the confusing and unsafe practice of each locality setting its own "sun" time. The system will take effect the following spring. However, it will not be until 1918 that Standard, or "Railroad" time is made the official U.S. system.

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November 18, 1981 Conrail (ex-NYC) and Grand Trunk Western operations through downtown Battle Creek MI are consolidated onto the GTW tracks.

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Mark Tomlonson

November 15, 1866 The Blue Line, a second cooperative fast freight line, is organized at Albany. (The Red Line had been organized in the spring, running over the NYC and Wabash) The line will operate over the New York Central, the Great Western of Canada and the Michigan Central to Chicago as soon as Great Western lays a third rail for standard-gauge cars. It will run west of Chicago on the Illinois Central, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Chicago & North Western and the Chicago & Alton. The line will own 7,000 cars.

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November 15, 1962 The U.S. Congress repeals a 10% tax on railroad tickets created during World War II to discourage travel. Railroads are given permission to raise fares to match the previous prices.

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November 16, 1898 The Vermont Central Railroad is purchased by the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada and renamed the Vermont Central Railway.

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November 17, 1855 The first section of the Grand Trunk Railway opens, 125.4 miles between Montreal (Point St. Charles) and Brockville.

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November 17, 1856 The Grand Trunk Railroad is completed between Guelph and Stratford ON.

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Mark Tomlonson

The no-cost migration doesn't allow the Yahoo message archive to be added to the Messages page here due to formatting issues. Instead I've uploaded HTML digest files of the complete Yahoo message archive from message #1 through yesterday in the Files section here:
/g/C-N-R/files/Yahoo%20messages%20archive

The PG Offline 4 software I'm using won’t let me put all the messages in one huge archive, but the file would be quite large and take ages to open anyway. I compromised at 4-year digests. You can open, view and search the digests in your browser. You can also downlaod the HTML files.

I hope this is of some use at least!

Pete

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Railroad & Shortlines Club of Chicago
7:30 pm
Friday, November 15, 2019

Chicago Union Station
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Keystone. Pennsylvania railroading 1953-2019
by David Wilson

Noted story teller and photographer David Wilson has made numerous trips to Pennsylvania over the years. This program will include a selection of railroad photographs from his trips.

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November 12, 1907 Formal dedication and opening ceremonies are held for the electrification of Grand Trunk's St. Clair Tunnel. The first tests were made the previous February, and full electric operation will begin in May.

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Mark Tomlonson

OK I got the photos from Yahoo uploaded to Photos in the same album structure. Please let me now if you feel anything's missing or I labellled it wrong. Thanks!

Next will be the messages. These will have to go in the Files section as they're not in the 开云体育 format. They'll be in an HTML digest format that you can view and search in your browser, or download. The complete archive of about 40,000 messages will be quite a big HTML file so I will make a digest for each year as well that should open a lot quicker. These will take a while so bear with me.? ;)

Pete

Thanks Paul!

I have added all the files from Yahoo Group in the Files section. I'm working on the photos now but this may take a while as I think I have to do them by folder, can't seem to bulk upload like the files.? :(

Pete?

I have updated some of the settings and you should find it easier to upload and download material from the new file now.

For those who have wondered why we required members to re-join instead of just copying the members list from yahoo - we had accumulated a huge number of bouncing email addresses, and I wanted to "clean the slate" by not carrying former members who are no longer monitoring this group into groups.io. The signup has been gratifying - there are still a lot of C-N-R enthusiasts out there! Thanks to all for doing this little bit of administrivia.

- Paul
C-N-R List Owner

I have downloaded the complete Files and Photos archives from Yahoo and we are ready to upload here for testing.

I'm not sure if I need to have my first post approved before I can access the Files and Photos menu links.

Paul: I'll email you directly if I can't get access.

Pete?

November 9, 1953 Canadian National opens its 144-mile branch to the mines at Lynn Lake, Manitoba.

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November 10, 1853 The Great Western Railway Line (later CN) opens, running 69 kilometers from the Niagara Suspension Bridge to Hamilton ONT.

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November 10, 1905 The Grand Trunk Milwaukee Ferry Company is incorporated in Wisconsin to operate a car ferry between Grand Haven MI and Milwaukee.

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Mark Tomlonson

November 6, 2017 Fort Erie ONT council votes $100,000 per year out of the city budget to restore CNR 6218 and its accompanying caboose. The 4-8-4 was donated to the city by Canadian National in 1973.

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Mark Tomlonson

I have no connection to the seller or the auctioneers - but I came across this auction sale posting and as it had a significant CN railroadiana content, I thought this group might be interested.?



- Paul