Top rows--W. J. MOFFATT, C.P.A., Toronto; L. L. GRABILL, Asst. Gen. Bge. Agt., Toronto; M. O. DAFOE, C.P. & T.A., Montreal; J. E. QUICK, Gen’l Baggage Agent; F. P. WALSH, G. M., CROSBY Tpn. Co., Milwaukee; C. P. ORTTENBURGER, C.P.A., Chicago; J. P. SHEA, T.P.A., Boston; A. A. GARDINER, G.C., Montreal. Centre Row--O. C. BRYANT, T.P.A., Chicago; S. R. JOYCE, T.P.A., Toronto; F. W. HOPPER, G.A.P.D., San Francisco; R. L. FRADD, Montreal, Sec’y to G.P.A.; E. C. ELLIOTT, C.C., P.T.D., Montreal; W. S. MILLER, T.P.A., Montreal; C. W. JOHNSTON, A.G.P.A., Montreal; D. B. SMITH, C.P. & T.A., Portland, Ore.; A. B. CHOWN, T.P.A., Pittsburg; J. H. BURGESS, G.A.P.D., Seattle; E. H. BOYNTON, N.E.P.A., Boston; C. S. PROCTOR, T.P.A., Toronto; J. E. REILLY, C.C., Chicago; J. D. MCDONALD, A.G.P.A., Chicago; F. P. DWYER, G.A.P.D., New York; E. W. SMITH, Supt., D. & P.C. Service; A. KIRK, Ex-C., Montreal; R. E. RUSE, C.P. & T.A., London; J. QUINLAN, D.P.A., Montreal, and W. J. GILKERSON, G.A.P.D., St. Paul. Lower Row--J. ANDERSON, C.P. & T.A., Hamilton; G. W. NORMAN, T.P.A., Chicago; D. P. DREWERY, T.P.A., Buffalo; R. MCC. SMITH, C.P. & T.A., Detroit; J. E. CROSSLEY, T.P.A., Montreal; C. E. HORNING, D.P.A., Toronto; F. W. WHERRETT, T.P.A., Detroit; W. S. COOKSON, Gen’ Pass’r Agent, Montreal; G. N. WILSON, T.P.A., Kansas City; J. H. CORCORAN, T.P.A., Moncton, N.B.; C. E. JENNEY, G.A.P.D., Vancouver, B.C., and H. R. CHARLTON, Gen’l Advertising Agent. ] [Illustration: Type of Grand Trunk Locomotive in use 1853] ONTARIO’S TWIN SISTER IS THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY If a vivisectionist, adroit with scalpel and scissors, should dissect and remove the bone framework from the torso of any man, that man would collapse, and likewise, did Atlas or Sampson but lift the Grand Trunk Railway System from out the ballasted roadbed in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec and contiguous territory, the extensive and most densely populated area of Older Canada would immediately become paralyzed and inert. Mankind in thousands would be without occupations, communication and the written word from the world outside would cease in three-quarters of the affected zone: again the over night journey to grist mills would resume, cattle be herded to market, the fruits of the earth would wither on the vine and the travelling public--wont to thoughtlessly grumble at imagined discrepancies in the time table--would submissively fall back on the tri-weekly stage. How few of us reflect upon and appreciate the amount of planning and experiment, figuring and re-adjustment involved in the preparation of a “Grand Trunk” folder, where a maze of branch line trains that gridiron the country like a spider’s web, must be dispatched to dovetail with innumerable main line connections rolling to every point of the compass.