admin | May 28, 2009
I did a google search on W. Shanly and came up with the following link to an article about Frank and Walter Shanly. A book was written about the two brothers in 1999 by Richard White. If you google Gentlemen Engineers you will come up with a few more articles about the brothers and a [...]
admin | May 28, 2009
The Sarnia Observer and Western Advertiser
January 5, 1854
Numerous surmises having been afloat lately regarding the Grand
Trunk Railway, and the difficulties with which the enterprise was surrounded,
– the following extract of a letter from the Chief Engineer, Mr. Shanly, to a
gentleman in Michigan, will be read with interest as affording reasonable
ground to hope that the undertaking [...]
admin | May 27, 2009
This page will contain vintage News Paper articles that maybe unrelated to the Railways but are an interesting read, or of some historical significance to this site. I hope you find them as interesting as I have. A special Thanks to my wife Dina for typing out the first article which was quite long. “Women [...]
admin | May 27, 2009
The Sarnia Observer and Western Advertiser
December 22, 1853
Yesterday afternoon, as the Railway train from Niagra Falls was approaching this city, the locomotive came in contact with some cows that were strolling on the track, and was thrown off the rails with considerable violence, twisting rails and sleepers and everything out of their proper shapes and [...]
admin | May 26, 2009
The Sarnia Observer and Western Advertiser
December 22, 1853
The Pioneer Locomotive. — Shortly after two o’clock on Tuesday afternoon, the first cry of the Pioneer Locomotive was heard in London; and soon after, up she came, bringing with her a cargo of passengers, among whom was Mr. Bridges, and some other prominent members of the Great [...]
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