1855--H. C. Bourlier, formerly Western Passenger Agent Allan Line, Toronto, was manager, agent and conductor of trains on 48 miles of line from Point Levis to St. Thomas, Quebec, on the I.C.R., which he designated the “Tommy Cod” Line. 1856, Oct. 27--The Grand Trunk Railway, incorporated 1852, operated its first train from Montreal to Toronto in fourteen hours, the Quebec Metropolis celebrating the event by a banquet in the Point St. Charles Shops when 4,400 people sat down beside a mile of tablecloth. 1858--Chicago & Alton Railroad experimented with George Pullman’s car and Colonel J. L. Barnes, afterwards for years superintendent on the Santa Fe System, was the first parlor car conductor. 1860–63--A brother of John Bell, late General Counsel of Grand Trunk Ry., genial, humorous Robert Bell, built and managed the Prescott & Bytown (Ottawa) Railway, an early undertaking born of many vicissitudes, which resorted in extremity to wooden rails to enter Bytown. 1864--The first successful trial of a railway postal car, assorting mail matter in transit, occurred on the “C. & N.W.R.” and other lines. 1869--A. O. Pattison, now G.T.R. Agent at Clinton, Ont., was ticket seller with the “G.T.R.” at Brantford, Canada, in the days of C. J. Brydges and W. J. Spicer. Conductors Ausbrooke and David McHaffy were his contemporaries. 1869--Toronto, Grey & Bruce Railway, Toronto to Owen Sound, Ont., and Teeswater, was built by Edmund Wragge. 1869–1875--Walter Shanley, a Montreal railway engineer, constructed the Hoosac Mountain Tunnel. He was a Canadian M.P. and lived for forty years in the St. Lawrence Hotel at Montreal. 1871--John Francis, youthful, alert and clever, was day operator and ticket clerk in the old station at Prescott Junction, Ont., laying the foundation with a little wrestling and scuffling thrown in, for his gradual progress to the General Passenger Agency of C.B. & Q.R., Chicago. 1873–4--International Bridge from Black Rock, N.Y., to Fort Erie, Ont., endorsed jointly by C.G.W.R. and G.T.R., built at a cost of $2,000,000, was opened to traffic at this time. C. Czowski and D. L. Macpherson were the contractors. Thomas Matchett, now C.T.A., C.P.R., Lindsay, Ont., was installed as the first telegraph operator at Fort Erie by H. P. Dwight, Superintendent of Montreal Telegraph Co., Toronto. 1876--Intercolonial Railway, opened for traffic Levis, Quebec, to the Maritime Provinces, was constructed under commissionership of C. J. Brydges.