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Grand Trunk Pacific Railway locomotive, 1880s
Archives of Manitoba, Transportation, Railway, 61.
By the turn of the 20th century, there were a number of railroads in Western Canada. By 1903, when the the eastern-based Grand Trunk Railway started building a transcontinental line, the Grand Trunk Pacific (GTP), Winnipeg already had twenty-four rail lines and Brandon had eight. The question was, could the Western economy sustain so many railroads? The Canadian National Railway (CNR)would later emerge, in the railway crisis of the 1920s, when a number of railways went bankrupt.
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