Grand Trunk Railway

The Grand Trunk Railway ( reporting mark GT) was a railway system which operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, as well as the American states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The railway was operated from headquarters in Montreal, Quebec; however, corporate headquarters were in London, England. The Grand Trunk and its subsidiaries, along with the Canadian Government Railways, was a primary precursor of today's Canadian National Railways. The GTR had three important subsidiaries during its lifetime: Central Vermont Railway which operated in Quebec, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Grand Trunk Pacific Railway which operated in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. Grand Trunk Western Railroad which operated in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. A fourth subsidiary was the never completed Southern New England Railway, chartered in 1910, which would have run from a connection with the Central Vermont at Palmer, Massachusetts to the deep-water, all weather port of Providence, Rhode Island.