Toronto Eastern Railway (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Toronto Eastern Railway is a noted "ghost railroad" in southern Ontario. It was originally part of an ambitious plan set up to provide high-speed electric "interurban" service throughout that district which first appeared in 1910; however, those plans fell afoul of World War I and, later, political manoeuvres. The railway was incorporated on 4 April 1910 to build a" high speed" route from Toronto east to Pickering, Whitby, and Oshawa. The company acquired by Canadian Northern Railway interests in 1911, who extended the proposal east of Oshawa to Bowmanville and Cobourg. Construction begun 1912, and by 1913 track was in place from Bowmanville to Whitby, when construction halted.