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Grand Trunk Corporation

{{Short description|American transport company}}

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| railroad_name = Grand Trunk Corporation

| logo_filename = Grand Trunk Western logo.svg

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| locale = United States
Canada

| start_year = 1971

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| hq_city = Montreal, Quebec, Canada

| website = {{URL|https://www.cn.ca}}

|successor_line=Canadian National Railway}}

The Grand Trunk Corporation is the subsidiary holding company for the Canadian National Railway's properties in the United States, and Canada. It is named for CN subsidiary railroad Grand Trunk Western Railroad. The Association of American Railroads has considered it to be a Class I railroad since fiscal year 2002.{{cite web|url=http://www.aar.org/PubCommon/Documents/AboutTheIndustry/Statistics.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030916134027/http://www.aar.org/PubCommon/Documents/AboutTheIndustry/Statistics.pdf|date=May 14, 2003|archive-date=September 16, 2003|author=|publisher=Association of American Railroads|title=Class I Railroad Statistics|access-date=June 3, 2017}}

GTC was incorporated under Delaware General Corporation Law on September 21, 1970 as Grand Trunk Industries, Inc., and renamed Grand Trunk Corporation on November 18, 1970. It acquired control of CN's U.S. properties; Grand Trunk Western, Central Vermont Railway and the Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway in December 1971, and has since acquired other companies, mostly through acquisitions of other holding companies: Illinois Central Railroad (IC) in 1999, Wisconsin Central Transportation Corporation (WC) in 2001, Great Lakes Transportation in 2004, and Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway in 2008.

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Algoma Central Railway

|WC

|{{dts|2001}}

Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad

|GLT

|{{dts|2004}}

Cedar River Railroad

|IC

|{{dts|1999}}

Chicago Central and Pacific Railroad

|IC

|{{dts|1999}}

Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway

|GLT

|{{dts|2004}}

Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway

|CN

|{{dts|1971|December}}

Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway

|Transtar Inc. (United States Steel Corporation)

|2009

Grand Trunk Western Railroad

|CN

|{{dts|1971|December}}

Great Lakes Fleet

|GLT

|{{dts|2004}}

Illinois Central Railroad

|IC

|{{dts|1999}}

Pittsburgh and Conneaut Dock Company

|GLT

|{{dts|2004}}

Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Company

|WC

|{{dts|2001}}

Waterloo Railway

|IC

|{{dts|1999}}

Wisconsin Central Ltd.

|WC

|{{dts|2001}}

Wisconsin Chicago Link Ltd.

|WC

|{{dts|2001}}

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|Central Vermont Railway

|CN

|{{dts|1971|December}}Moody's Transportation Manual, 1992, pp. 233, 237

|Sold February 1995 to RailTexRailroad Retirement Board, [http://www.rrb.gov/pdf/bcd/bcd95-80.pdf Employer Status Determination: Central Vermont Railway, Inc.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090117062702/http://www.rrb.gov/pdf/bcd/bcd95-80.pdf |date=2009-01-17 }}, 1995

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|Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad

|Pennco (Penn Central Corporation)

|{{dts|1980|June}}

|Merged December 1983 into Grand Trunk Western Railroad

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|Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad

|Acquired Norfolk and Western's 50% share.

|{{dts|1981|April}}

|Merged October 1981 into Grand Trunk Western Railroad

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|Fox Valley and Western Ltd.

|WC

|{{dts|2001}}

|Merged December 2002 into Wisconsin Central Ltd.[https://archive.today/20120805193938/http://www.stb.dot.gov/Decisions/readingroom.nsf/WEBUNID/CF521846DC3E849085256CAE007DD265?OpenDocument STB Finance Docket No. 34296], January 22, 2003

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|St. Clair Tunnel Company

|CN

|{{dts|1971|December}}

|Merged September 2008 into Grand Trunk Western Railroad[http://www.stb.dot.gov/Decisions/readingroom.nsf/WEBUNID/1EA4B08CBD313FC88525748A005FA1B3?OpenDocument STB Finance Docket No. 35142] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309042923/http://www.stb.dot.gov/Decisions/readingroom.nsf/WEBUNID/1EA4B08CBD313FC88525748A005FA1B3?OpenDocument |date=2012-03-09 }}, July 25, 2008Railroad Retirement Board, [http://www.rrb.gov/blaw/bcd/bcd08-40.asp Employer Status Determination: Grand Trunk Western Railroad, Inc.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090117051024/http://rrb.gov/blaw/bcd/bcd08-40.asp |date=2009-01-17 }}, November 19, 2008

References

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Further reading

  • {{cite book| title=Grand Trunk Corporation, Canadian National Railways in the United States, 1971-1992| first=Don L.| last=Hofsommer| year=1995}}

External links

{{Portal|Railways}}

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20040726093549/http://www.aar.org/PubCommon/Documents/AboutTheIndustry/RRProfile_GTW.pdf AAR Grand Trunk Corporation company profile]

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Category:Canadian National Railway subsidiaries

Category:United States railroad holding companies

Category:Class I railroads in North America

Category:Transport companies established in 1970

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