Grand Trunk Corporation

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The Grand Trunk Corporation (ABC) is a Class-1 - railway company in the United States . The company is based in Montreal . The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway (CN). It is responsible for all of the CN's rail operations in the United States.

It covers a distance of 10,447 km, 9,680 km of which are owned by the company. In 2003 the company owned 649 locomotives, 6,214 employees, and had sales of $ 1.54 billion on 1.175 million truckloads.

history

On December 20, 1918, when the state Canadian National Railways was founded, it was decided to take over the bankrupt or endangered railways in Canada. In this context it was planned to take over the Grand Trunk Railway System (GTR) and its subsidiary Grand Trunk Western (GTW) . This takeover took place on May 21, 1920. Due to disputes with the former shareholders, the merger could not be completed until January 30, 1923.

As a result, the Grand Trunk Western was created for the routes from Port Huron and Detroit to Chicago and Grand Trunk Eastern for the route from Island Pond to Portland . However, with the merger, this was no longer independent, but integrated into the CN network and operated as a Berlin subdivision .

In the 1960s, the designation on the locomotives was changed from GTW to GT and represented analogously to the CN logo.

In 1970 the Canadian National Railways founded the Grand Trunk Corporation as a holding company as part of a restructuring . The CN subsidiaries Grand Trunk Western , Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway and the Central Vermont Railway as well as the Grand Trunk Eastern were integrated into this company. The latter was sold to the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad in 1989 and Central Vermont to RailTex (later RailAmerica ) in 1995 .

The later acquisitions of CN Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad (sold on to RailTex (later RailAmerica ) in 1997 ), Wisconsin Central Ltd., Illinois Central Railroad and Great Lakes Transportation were also subordinated to the Grand Trunk Corporation.

The red-white-black color scheme introduced by the Canadian National Railway in the 1960s has also been used on the locomotives of the Grand Trunk Corporation and its subsidiaries since 1995. The affiliation is only recognizable by the AAR code on the driver's cab.