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Mackenzie Northern Railway : ウィキペディア英語版 | Mackenzie Northern Railway
The Mackenzie Northern Railway was a Canadian railway operating in Alberta and the Northwest Territories. It is the northernmost trackage of the contiguous North American railway network. ==History== The majority of the tracks which the Mackenzie Northern Railway used were built by the federal government as the Great Slave Lake Railway, running from a point on the Northern Alberta Railways at Grimshaw, Alberta to the southern shores of Great Slave Lake at Hay River, Northwest Territories starting in 1961 with the proposal to Parliament and opening in 1964. The railroad was built as part of Lester B. Pearson's vision for the north,〔 and would ease shipment of lead-zinc ore from the Pine Point Mines.〔〔 The Great Slave Railway's operation was entrusted to Canadian National Railway in 1966, which had been operating the line on behalf of the federal government since it opened. The line also continued east from Hay River, along the south shore of Great Slave Lake, to a mine at Pine Point. This section was abandoned in 1988 once concentrate shipments from the closed mine ceased.〔 The total mileage in the Northwest Territories from the border with Alberta to Hay River is approximately . In 1981, CN purchased the other half of the Northern Alberta Railways from Canadian Pacific Railway, allowing CN to operate continuously from Edmonton to Hay River.
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