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	Train ferry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Typically, one level of the ship is fitted with railway tracks, and the ship has a door at the front or rear to give access to the wharves.
		While railway vehicles can and are shipped on the decks or in the holds of ordinary ships, purpose-built train ferries are much quicker to load and unload, especially as several vehicles can be loaded or unloaded at once.
		A portage railway overcomes a lack of a navigatable stretch of a river.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Railway_ferry (591 words)

	PENNSYLVANIA - LoveToKnow Article on PENNSYLVANIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The first railway in the state was that built in 1827 by the Lehigt Coal and Navigation Company from Mauch Chunk to its mines 9 m.
		In 1823 a company was incor porated to build a railway from Philadelphia to Columbia, bu nothing further was done until f 828, when the state canal corn - missioners were directed to build this road and the Allegheiv Portage railway from Hollidaysburg to Johnstown.
		On turnpikes, bridges, canals and railways $53,352,649 was spent between 1826 and 1843, the public debt in the latter year reaching the high-water mark of $42,188,434.
	28.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PE/PENNSYLVANIA.htm (9856 words)

	Portage in Picturesque America
		Nor is it till the falls at Portage are reached that the river asserts its claim to recognition as one of the most beautiful and picturesque of all our Eastern streams.
		A second and more hazardous pathway leads from these rocky observatories to the base of this the lasts of the Portage falls; and the course of the river now lies deep down in its rock-enclosed limits, until the broad valley is reached.
		Thus we have the High Banks at Portage, the Mount-Morris High Banks, and, at the lower end of the valley, the high Banks below the lower fall at Rochester.
	www.letchworthparkhistory.com /pa.html (1693 words)

	Old Time Trains
		Government support was required for all railway construction; often this took the form of grants at a set rate per mile of line constructed and guarantees of bonds.
		Various efforts were undertaken to build railways in Nova Scotia, this required the Colony to support construction and to seek aid to extend a line to connect with the main population areas of Montreal.
		Railways in Central Canada were built to the Provincial Gauge of 5 feet 6 inches in order that they could not be easily used by enemy forces during war.
	www.trainweb.org /oldtimetrains/empires/empires.htm (1963 words)

	Montreal & Bytown Railway
		Three railways were to be included: The Montreal and Bytown Railway Company which would follow the north bank of the Ottawa River from Montreal and would traverse the route of the previously proposed Carillon and Grenville railway; the Brockville and Ottawa Railway Company and the Bytown and Pembroke Railway Company.
		Interestingly the original charter stated that the railway was to cross the Ottawa River between Carillon and Grenville.
		The railway was to issue bonds, payable in 1874, which would be turned over to Sykes, de Bergue and Company and they in turn would sell them in England.
	jim-sandilands.tripod.com /c-g/MontrealBytownRailway.html (911 words)

	Must. Go. To. Woods. - Trip Report September 1999
		The portage itself was easy, although its beginning was a bit hidden in the foliage.
		The little 30m portage from Bell to Balsam actually has a railway with a dolly you steer your boat onto, then pull over with a rope.
		The campsite and portage signs are kind of small and relatively subtle.
	www.snappingturtle.net /woods/tripreport99sep.htm (794 words)

	CP Rail Station Portage la Prairie - Facts
		Portage la Prairie’s CPR Station was the point of origin of the western section of Canada’s first transcontinental railway system, the “ribbon of steel” which bound the nation together and fulfilled the promise of Confederation.
		Portage la Prairie Heritage Inc. intends, given a successful fundraising campaign, to proceed with the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway Heritage Centre and Park to operate as a tourist attraction.
		Portage Heritage believes the telling of this story will be a powerful historical attraction and educational experience for Canadians and visitors to Canada alike.
	www.cprstationportage.ca /facts.html (2402 words)

	BOLIVIA - Online Information article about BOLIVIA
		The railway to be built by Brazil will remedy this unfavourable situation, will afford a better outlet for north-eastern Bolivia, and should promote a more rapid development of that region, which is covered with an admirable system of navigable rivers above the falls of the Beni and Mamore.
		Up to 1903 the only railways in Bolivia were the Antofagasta and Oruro line, with a total length of 574 m., of which 350 M. are within Bolivian territory, a private branch of that line (26 m.
		A treaty was accordingly ratified in 1905, which was in many ways advantageous to Bolivia, though the republic was compelled to cede to Chile the maritime provinces occupied by the latter power since the war of 1881, and to do without a seaport.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BLA_BOS/BOLIVIA.html (13607 words)

	History
		The narrow-gauge (42") Portage Railway, only 1 1/8 miles long, was designed around two tiny seven-ton four-wheel (0-4-0) saddle-tank wood-burning steam locomotives built in 1888 by the H.K. Porter Co. of Pittsburgh and purchased second-hand from the E.B. Eddy Co. in Hull, Quebec.
		This railway operated quite successfully for many years but, with the development of roads and the increasing use of automobiles and trucks, it became less and less profitable and in 1959 ceased operations.
		The aim of the Railway Society was to build and operate a tourist steam railway featuring the "Portage Flyer", and, at the same time, preserve some of the history of the steam transportation era in the Huntsville and Lake of Bays district.
	www.portageflyer.org /history.htm (1034 words)

	Portage stations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Originally, there was a third station in Portage that served the Canadian Northern.
		The CP station from MacGregor (west of Portage) was moved to Portage and converted to a private residence.
		This was owned by the Canadian Northern Railway and connected to what is now the CN Gladstone Subdivision just west of West Tower.
	www.trainscan.com /fan/plap/stat.html (246 words)

	Archives: Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The train was then halted in the City of Portage and the passengers were removed while bomb sniffing dogs and local and federal authorities searched the 40-car train before releasing it continue on to Chicago late Tuesday night.
		The train evacuated at the Portage depot on Oneida Street, and 282 passengers were disembarked and bussed to a nearby school where they were questioned and attended to.
		Canadian Pacific Railway Portage Foreman Dale Bennett, in an open letter describing Tuesday's "terrorist act," reminded the community that, "This time it was not a drill or a simulated training exercise."
	portage.scwn.com /articles/2004/07/07/news/news2.txt (732 words)

	Bowling Green Transportation Routes
		(Barter p 18) In 1836, the General Assembly of Kentucky, passed a charter for Bowling Green Portage Railway, (Kentucky General Assembly, 1836) whose purpose was to haul passengers and steamboat freight to and from the boat landing on the Barren River to the town center.
		The Portage Railway was horse drawn, (Kentucky Library Collection) and was the first tramway of its type to be equipped with iron cars.
		The reason for this conclusion is that the Portage Railroad, which was built and operated by the river businessmen, had already defined the direction of city rail growth through the riverfront.
	www.mindspring.com /~koz/papers/BowlingGreen.html (5008 words)

	Braking on the CN
		My grandfather, David Peden, on emigrating to Canada from Scotland in 1907, was a security guard with the railway in Portage la Prairie and his son, George, was later employed in the C.N. Stores Dept. there for many years.
		My dad, William Peden, worked for the Railway Mail Service for forty years and at the time of his retirement in 1958 was running on the C.P.R. mail line between Winnipeg and Fort William (now part of Thunder Bay) Ontario.
		Uncle Fred, from Portage la Prairie, was a C.N. conductor on the Transcontinental passenger train running between Winnipeg and Waterous, Saskatchewan on the main line at the time of his retirement.
	www.wcra.org /features/cnbraking.htm (5336 words)

	Dates in Canadian Railway History
		One of the conditions of Confederation was the building of a railway by the newly constituted Dominion Government to connect Halifax with the St. Lawrence at or near Quebec.
		The railway lay idle from late 1910 until July 25, 1911 when it was bought by the Canadian Northern Railway as part of its new Montreal to Ottawa line.
		Lawrence and Hudson Railway is formed by merging the CP Rail routes in southern Ontario and Quebec with its Delaware and Hudson subsidiary in northern USA.
	www.railways.incanada.net /candate/candate.htm (10210 words)

	CEC: Closed Canadian Parks - Park
		Started in 1863 as a nature park, The St. Thomas Street Railway Company developed the area in the 1890's as a way to promote business on its recently electrified tramway.
		That railway was first constructed to span the land between Lake of the Bays and Peninsula Lake, about 200 kilometers northeast of Toronto at a time when the lakes and rivers of that area were the only available transport routes.
		In 1984, the locomotives and cars were put up for sale and bought by the heritage group, Huntsville and Lake of Bays Railway Society which wished to restore the portage railway trains.
	cec.chebucto.org /ClosPark/Pinafore.html (725 words)

	Portage Flyer On30
		It was a facinating little railway, just over 1 mile long with 2 small N/G locos, 2 coaches, 2 Boxcars and 2 flatcars and only 6 points in its entire length.
		The layout will be in On16.5mm and make use of the excellent Bachmann Porter locos and rolling stock.
		I intend to model one end of the line where the railway met the steamboat.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /terrys_model_trains/page3.html (159 words)

	CP Rail Station Portage la Prairie - Home
		The Portage la Prairie CP Rail Station is a 112 year-old building that was still being used by the company's train and maintenance crews until it was damaged by fire on November 1, 2002.
		A public invitation was extended to anyone interested in discussing the possibilities for the preservation of the station if CP Rail did not plan to repair and continue use of it.
		After gathering as much public input as possible, a committee was formed to organize the task of approaching Canadian Pacific Railway to determine their intentions for the station, and express interest in preserving the building in its current location -- if the fire damage was not too severe.
	www.cprstationportage.ca (358 words)

	Pennsylvania Railroad Shops and Works: Special History Study (Chapter 1)
		The portage railway ingeniously surmounted the Allegheny summit through a series of steep inclines over which the passenger and freight cars were hauled up by means of stationary hoisting engines.
		By 1855, the New Allegheny Portage Railroad began operations with a combined rail and canal operations which eliminated the need for the incline operations, but still was slow in comparison with a strictly railroad system.
		Railway shops construction began in 1850 with Wright conveying the deed for the land to the railroad in 1851.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/railroad/shs1.htm (1353 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Wisconsin
		He and Jolliet entered Green Bay, passed up the Fox River, portaged to the Wisconsin River, followed the latter to its mouth, went down the Mississippi to the mouth of the Arkansas, and here planted a cross and started to retrace their way.
		From Green Bay they portaged to Lake Michigan and travelled in canoes to the mouth of the Chicago River, where they wintered, and resuming their journey in the spring they went as far as the site of the present city of Peoria.
		In 1869 began the agitation for the regulation of railway rates, and in 1874 the so-called Potter Law was passed which limited freight and passenger charges and which was upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court of the state.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15661b.htm (4960 words)

	Information about Canada FDC: 37¢ Grand Trunk Class (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The first railway in Canada -- the Champlain and St. Lawrence -- was established on July 21, 1836 as a portage railway linking the St. Lawrence River opposite Montreal with the Champlain River at St. Johns.
		This railway was adopted in 1856 by the Grand Trunk Railway, an English-owned line which was conceived as a main line linking Upper and Lower Canada.
		In 1923, the new Canadian National Railway was legally created, consisting of the Canadian Northern Railway, the National Transcontinental Railway and the Grand Trunk Pacific.
	www.unicover.com /EA4NA0M1.htm (435 words)

	B Author Titles
		The cloth at the head of the spine is modestly faded and the upper fore corner of the front board is tender.
		454 pages including an index with the railway map of railway map of France and with 15 other maps many of which are of the colored fold-out type.
		The text is amply illustrated with numerous fl and white photographs, maps and a fold-out map of the California coast from San Diego to the Pacific Northwest showing the routes of this railroad.
	www.townsendbooks.com /authorb.htm (15121 words)

	North American Tourist Railways: ONTARIO
		The Portage Railway provided the essential land link with1-1/8 miles (2.5 kilometres) of narrow gauge track, over the height of land between Peninsula Lake and Lake of Bays.
		This railway was the smallest commercial railway in the world, operating from 1904 to 1958.
		The Portage Flyer steam train was instrumental in developing tourism in the local area, and continues now as a heritage attraction.
	www.touristrailways.com /namerica/ONTARIO (693 words)

	Environment #02-525 - UPGRADES COMPLETED AT RAPID RIVER PORTAGE - Government News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The marine railway at the Rapid River Portage on Lac La Ronge has been refurbished with funding from Saskatchewan's Centenary Fund.
		Once boaters push their vessels across the portage on a small railcar, they can travel down the river to within walking distance of the spectacular Nistowiak Falls, the largest in the province.
		The upgrading at Rapid River Portage was completed over the last two years at a cost of about $68,000.
	www.gov.sk.ca /newsrel/releases/2002/06/27-525.html (197 words)

	Tourist Railway review : Portage Flyer in Huntsville, ONTARIO
		The Huntsville and Lake of Bays Railway and Navigation Co. (HLofBR&NC) has some wonderful heritage.
		The very original Porter 0-4-0 engines are not present.````On the plus side, the museum/train station has some great displays and artefacts from the era.
		The highlight is a ~5 minute circa 1910 colour home movie of the train leaving the North Portage landing.
	www.touristrailways.com /namerica/Reviews/149.html (383 words)

	The Hotbox - details
		The Portage Lake Railway and Navigation Co. started as a free-lance shortline based on my childhood memories of Northern Michigan.
		Most of the time the Portage Lake is operated as a switching layout using dice, cards and coins.
		Most of the equipment on the Portage Lake is ‘50s style, but I enjoy mixing modern and old fashioned equipment.
	info.detnews.com /hotbox/hotboxstory/details.cfm?id=146 (687 words)

	The Portage Radial Railway and Canal Company Incorporation Act
		3 The head office of the company shall be at the City of Portage la Prairie, in the Province of Manitoba, or such other place within the Province as may be from time to time determined by by-law.
		25 The company shall have the power to use steam during and for the purpose of the constructions of the said railway, and when not operating along a public highway, but not otherwise.
		26 The construction of the railway hereby authorized shall be commenced within two years and shall be completed within four years from the date of the coming into force of this Act.
	web2.gov.mb.ca /laws/statutes/private/c14190e.php (917 words)

	Pedicon-2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Meeting and Assistance at the railway station by our representative.
		Portage at railway station upon arrival and departure
		Train ticket by Himalayan queen express of II AC Chair car for the sector Delhi / Kalka / Shimla / Kalka / Delhi.
	www.pedicon2006.com /tour_shimla.htm (170 words)

	An Overview of Pennsylvania Mapping Circa 1850 to 1900
		The Portage Railroad went through the first railway tunnel driven in the United States, the Staple Bend Tunnel, today part of the Allegheny Portage Railway National Historic Site.
		After about twenty-five years service, this tunnel was abandoned in the late 1850’s (along with the rest of the Portage Railroad) and lay derelict for 140 years until reborn in 2001 as part of a bicycle path.
		It was made for railway travelers to easily carry in their pocket and not regret losing.
	www.mapsofpa.com /article4.htm (9150 words)

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		Portage and Baraboo Railroad - 1880 - Wisconsin
		Portage Lake and Manistee River Railroad - 1883-1891 - Michigan - 3'1" Log - 26 miles
		Portage Lake and Muskegon River Railroad - 1889-1891 - Michigan - 3' Log - 38 miles
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Choir/6820/p-4.html (2455 words)

	Railway Stations in the area of Cranberry Portage, MB
		Railway Stations in the area of Cranberry Portage, MB Railway Stations in Cranberry Portage, MB
		Here is a list of railway stations in the Cranberry Portage area.
		Simply click on a railway station name to display the list of nearby hotels.
	en-nav.besthotels.com /rail/canada/manitoba/cranberry-portage-camb.html (51 words)

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