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Canadian National Facilities in Color Vol 1 Kevin Holland w/DJ Morning Sun Bks
Canadian National Facilities in Color Vol 1 by Kevin Holland Morning Sun Books
128 Pages
Copyright 2009
Morning Sun Books
Hard Cover W/Dust Jacket
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
CNR Hotels 8
CNR in the skies10
Urban Terminals12
Chicago13
Montreal14
Quebec City 22
Ottawa24
Toronto26
Hamilton40
London44
Winnipeg46
Vancouver48
Division Points
and Outposts50
Along the Line74
Ontario82
Prairies100
Behind the Scenes 110
Turcot112
Spadina116
Fort Rouge124
For much of the 20th century, the Canadian railway landscape was the domain of two principal carriers: government ward Canadian National and privately owned Canadian Pacific, both fed here and there by regional connections such as the Pacific Great
Eastern; Northern Alberta; Algoma Central; Ontario Northland; and Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo railways. Since the 1980s, though, a growing number of regional and shortline "spin-offs" (some subsequently reclaimed by CN) has harkened back to an
era, prior to World War I, when a multitude of bantamweight railway companies vied for traffic in a competitive and increasingly overbuilt Canadian market. CN and CP
still dominate Canada's-arguably, North America's-rail industry, but in their parallel quest to shed marginal routes and appeal to investors (CN was privatized in 1995), both major railroads have trimmed themselves to lean trunks that must produce or perish.
Canadian Pacific's seniority in the cross-Canada railway business dated to completion of its transcontinental route in 1885. Almost immediately, protests arose from shippers and politicians against the CPR's monopoly on traffic in many parts of the West. Similar cries had grown from the conduct of the Grand Trunk Railway in eastern Canada; this British-backed organization predated the CPR and had come to dominate the movement of goods and people in Quebec and Ontario. The imperious conduct of the GTR and CPR sowed the seeds for what by the outbreak of World War I had become a glut of poorly financed transcontinental railways serving a thinly populated nation.
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