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Toronto, Hamilton And Buffalo RailwayThe Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway (TH&B; AAR reporting mark THB) was a railway that ran in Southern Ontario. It began operations in 1892. The line originally ran between Hamilton and Welland, with plans to build to Toronto and Buffalo. In 1895, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the New York Central Railroad bought the TH&B. The TH&B was jointly owned by the CPR and the NYC for several decades. It never built into Toronto or Buffalo, but used its parent companies' trackage to reach the two cities. Passenger service on the TH&B ended in the 1970s. In 1977, CP Rail acquired NYC's half (at that point part of Conrail), and merged the TH&B into its system in 1987. TH&B's former lines west of Hamilton are now mostly abandoned. The line between Hamilton and Brantford was abandoned after trackage next to the Grand River was washed out in the 1990s. Some former TH&B industrial trackage still remains in the city of Brantford, although it is now operated by Canadian National Railway.
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