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Trains & Railways: Passenger Trains: 1800-1885
Great Western Railway Great Western Railway station at Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario. The Great Western Railway was extended to Toronto in 1855, running from Niagara Falls to Windsor via Hamilton.
ID #20348
Desjardins Train Wreck The Desjardins Canal train wreck near Hamilton, Ontario, March 12, 1857, one of Ontario's first railway disasters, with 59 people killed when a passenger train went through the tracks. Lithography by J. Sage & Sons.
ID #20344
Grand Trunk Locomotive A Grand Trunk Railway locomotive at its busy Montreal workplant, 1859, intended for the Canadian visit of the Prince of Wales in 1860.
ID #20702
1869 Sleeping Car A model of the Great Western Railway Sleeping Car No. 1, c. 1869.
ID #21693
Electric Railway The first electric railway in Toronto, Ontario, 1885. This train ran from the south end of Strachan Avenue to the Exhibition Grounds.
ID #20371
North West Rebellion Troops Canadian forces from the east detraining at Winnipeg, April 1885, sent to quell the North West Rebellion.
ID #20755
North West Rebellion Sharpshooters returning from the North West Rebellion at Carleton, 1885.
ID #21855
Pembina Train The first train on the Pembina branch of the C.P.R., 1878, which joined Canadian tracks to American rails.
ID #20740
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