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Not as a joint section, but NS still interchanges with CN in Fort Erie. 15 years it's continued under the 'temporary' agreement.

By Comparison, CP sends two trains across the border in Fort Erie, one to CSX and one to NS yards.

CN sends their two trains to CSX and BPRR/South Buffalo Railway respectively.

- Steve

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December 1, 1824 The Montreal “Gazette” prints an editorial calling for the construction of a railway to link Lake Champlain with the St. Lawrence River. This line was eventually built, the Champlain & St. Lawrence (later M&NY, GTR, CN)

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December 1, 1901 The Chicago Kalamazoo & Saginaw completes its Pavilion Branch running southeast from Kalamazoo, connecting with the Grand Trunk at Pavilion. GT (et seq.) will lease this branch for access to Kalamazoo.

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December 1, 1942 Wartime gasoline rationing is imposed across the United States. This increases demand for railroad passenger service.

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December 1, 2007 Norfolk Southern terminates its Joint Section agreement with Canadian National, initiated between the Wabash and the Grand Trunk in 1898, ending 109 years of operation into Ontario. However, NS and CN cannot come to agreement to handle Fort Erie interchange traffic, and service is allowed to continue under a new temporary agreement.

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November 30, 1871 The Toronto, Simcoe & Muskoka Junction Railway opens from Barrie to Orillia ON. CNR will abandon the line in September 1996.

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November 30, 1872 The first through train runs over Chicago & North Western tracks (later CN) via Menominee WI and Escanaba MI to the national network.

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November 28, 1928 Canadian National diesel-electric #9000 makes its initial test runs on the railroad.

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November 28, 1995 Canadian National Railway is privatized, no longer a Crown Corporation.

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Mark Tomlonson

November 24, 1995 The last Canadian National transcontinental freight train runs through Algonquin Park.

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November 23, 1990 The last rail is removed from Newfoundland Island. Revenue service had quit about two years earlier.

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November 22, 1858 The Detroit & Milwaukee Railroad (later GT) opens a new depot across the river from Grand Haven MI. 开云体育 only freight at first; passenger service to the new depot will begin on January 1.

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November 21, 1859 First Detroit-Fort Gratiot (Port Huron) train on the Chicago, Detroit & Canada Grand Trunk Junction Railroad (later GT, GTW). Thomas Edison will later work on this line as a candy butcher.

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November 21, 1950 A westbound troop train and Canadian National’s “Continental Limited” crash head-on near Valemount BC. Twenty-one passengers are killed, 17 of them troops on their way to Korea.

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November 21, 1959 Mrs. John Luther "Casey" Jones passes away at the age of 92.

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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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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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November 17, 1855 The first section of the Grand Trunk Railway opens, 125.4 miles (201.8 km) 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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November 17, 2020 Canadian National officially puts its five “Heritage” diesels into service. Painted for Grand Trunk, Illinois Central, Wisconsin Central, Elgin, Joliet & Eastern and BC Rail, the units had been spotted in service for the past month.

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November 17, 2021 Canadian National and Canadian Pacific release a joint statement that the recent washouts of their joint line in British Columbia’s Frasier and Thompson Canyons will require major repairs. The damage to their joint line was caused by several flooding incidents, and as of this date (11/17/21) they have no timeline for putting the line back in service.

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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 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, 1916 For the first time the Dow Jones Industrial average exceeds the Dow Jones Railroad average.

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November 15, 1962 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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Railroad & Shortlines Club of Chicago

7:30 pm
Friday, November 18, 2022

Do not arrive before 7:15 pm.

Chicago Union Station
Room 107A
500 W Jackson Blvd (enter between Clinton and Canal)
Chicago, Illinois

Kansas City Southern - soon to be a semi-fallen flag
by Harold Edmonson

Harold Edmonson has been following Kansas City Southern for many years. Enjoy a contemporary program of North America's last independent Class I railroad, before it gets swallowed up into the larger CP system.

Harold had been a president of The Railroad Club of Chicago, which had merged into this Club.

Upcoming programs:

December 16, 2022: Leo Phillipp - "Burlington Hand Sign Clinic"
January 20, 2023: Russell Sharp - "Germany"
February 17, 2023: Bruce Moffat - "Greece"

Railroad & Shortlines Club of Chicago meets at Chicago Union Station on the third Friday of the month except in July and August.

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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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November 12, 2021 Trains magazine reports that CN has announced its goal to have net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. CN is the first railroad in North America to make that commitment.

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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 ON.

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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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November 9, 1878 The Detroit & Milwaukee Railway is reorganized as the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee (later GT).

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

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November 4, 1925 Canadian National Railcar 15820 finishes a transcontinental trip it started three days earlier, averaging 44 mph and topping out at 60 mph

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November 4, 2021 CN announces it will be purchasing a Wabtec battery-electric locomotive. The unit, purchased with financial support from Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection, was used as a demonstrator on BNSF earlier in the year.

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November 6, 2017 Fort Erie ON 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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November 3, 2008 CN announces it is buying some of the rail and ferry operations of Quebec Railway Corporation. Included in the buy: Chemin de fer de la Matapedia et du Golfe, New Brunswick East Coast Railway, Ottawa Central Railway and the rail ferry firm Compagnie de gestiion de Matane Inc.

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