The American Railway Association (ARA) was an industry trade group representing railroads in the United States. On October 12, 1934, the ARA ceased to exist, having joined with several other railroad industry trade groups to merge into the Association of American Railroads. This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ... October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ... 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Categories: Organization stubs | Rail transport | Industry trade groups ...
A "Special Committee on Co-operation with the Military Authorities was appointed by the AmericanRailwayAssociation, and during the winter of 1915-16 this committee was in frequent session with the officers of the Transportation Division of the Quartermaster General's Office, and a general plan of co-operation was agreed upon.
The AmericanRailwayAssociation is an organization financially supported by the railroads of the United States and other countries, and which have given the Association plenary power to move and assign its rolling stock in an emergency where needed in the public interest.
In addition, competent representatives from the AmericanRailwayAssociation (or railway officials) were assigned to each departmental headquarters, cantonment, port of embarkation, and any special place where considerable numbers of men were to be moved by rail.
It is the northernmost trackage of the contiguous North Americanrailway network.
The majority of the tracks which the Mackenzie Northern Railway uses were built by the federal government as the Great Slave Railway, running from a point on the Northern Alberta Railways at Grimshaw, AB to the southern shores of Great Slave Lake at Hay River, NWT starting in 1961 and opening in 1964.
The Great Slave Railway's operation was entrusted to CN in 1966, which had been operating the line on behalf of the federal government since it opened.
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