Defunct Nova Scotia Railways - Canadian Pacific Railway, Intercolonial Railway, Dominion Atlantic Railway, Halifax and Southwestern Railway, Sydney a (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Canadian Pacific Railway, Intercolonial Railway, Dominion Atlantic Railway, Halifax and Southwestern Railway, Sydney and Louisburg Railway, Canadian Northern Railway, Devco Railway, Cumberland Railway and Coal Company, Canadian Atlantic Railway, Cornwallis Valley Railway, Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Inverness and Richmond Railway, Middleton and Victoria Beach Railway, Nova Scotia Railway, Canadian Government Railways. Excerpt: The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), formerly also known as CP Rail (reporting mark CP) between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railway founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001. Its rail network serves major cities in the United States, such as Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York City. Its headquarters is in Calgary, Alberta. It owns approximately 14,000 miles (22,500 km) route miles of track all across Canada and into the United States, stretching from Montreal to Vancouver, as far north as Edmonton. The company acquired two American lines in 2009: the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad and the Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad. The trackage of the ICE was at one time part of CP subsidiary Soo Line and predecessor line The Milwaukee Road. The combined DME/ICE system spanned North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Iowa, as well as two short stretches into two other states, which included a line to Kansas City, Missouri, and a line to Chicago, Illinois, and regulatory approval to build a line into the Powder River Basin of Wyoming. The railway was originally built between eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885, (connecting with Ottawa Valley and Georgian Bay area lines built earlier), fulfilling a promise extended to British Columbia when...