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My favorite railroad, and I seem to be one of the few who likes this one, is the Grand Trunk Western. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a wealth of information out there on this one. I don't know if it is because they were part of the CN, or because their US operation was only in Michigan, Northern Indiana, Chicago and Detroit, or what the reason, but there is very little out there that I've found in terms of written material on this railroad. As for HO scale locomotives, there's even less. Athearn makes an SD40-2 with the road number 5933 in GTW and 5935 in the CN North America scheme, and Trainline makes a GP9M in the North America scheme, but that's about it, and even these are not entirely accurate. I even bought a book from Walther's called "America's Driving Force" looking for GTW stuff. I thought that since more than half of their traffic is related to the Auto Industry they would deserve some kind of mention, but I was wrong. I think there was one picture of a box car, and one sentence about the GTW in the entire book. Fortunately, there are some models of Rolling Stock out there, and Clear Block has a series of five videos about the GTW. That's where I've gotten quite a bit of my information. The videos and the internet would probably be tied for first, with travelling back to Michigan to see it for real being second.
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