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.
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. CompanyAcquired fromDateNotesAlgoma Central RailwayWCBessemer and Lake Erie RailroadGLTCedar River RailroadICChicago Central and Pacific RailroadICDuluth, Missabe and Iron Range RailwayGLTDuluth, Winnipeg and Pacific RailwayCNGrand Trunk Western RailroadCNGreat Lakes FleetGLTIllinois Central RailroadICPittsburgh and Conneaut Dock CompanyGLTSault Ste. Marie Bridge CompanyWCWaterloo RailwayICWisconsin Central Ltd.WCWisconsin Chicago Link Ltd.WC
Former subsidiariesCompanyAcquired fromDateNotesCentral Vermont RailwayCNMoody's Transportation Manual, 1992, pp. 233, 237Sold February 1995 to RailTexRailroad Retirement Board, Employer Status Determination: Central Vermont Railway, Inc. , 1995Detroit, Toledo and Ironton RailroadPennco (Penn Central Corporation)Merged December 1983 into Grand Trunk Western RailroadDetroit and Toledo Shore Line RailroadAcquired Norfolk and Western's 50% share.Merged October 1981 into Grand Trunk Western RailroadElgin, Joliet and Eastern RailwayTranstar Inc. (United States Steel Corporation)2009Fully merged into GTW on 1 January 2013Fox Valley and Western Ltd.WCMerged December 2002 into Wisconsin Central Ltd., January 22, 2003St. Clair Tunnel CompanyCNMerged September 2008 into Grand Trunk Western RailroadSTB Finance Docket No. 35142 , July 25, 2008Railroad Retirement Board, Employer Status Determination: Grand Trunk Western Railroad, Inc. , November 19, 2008
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AAR Grand Trunk Corporation company profile