1918—Grand Trunk Railway System, composed of about 125 lines, that had early independent, statutory beginnings, celebrates her 66th birthday.
1918, March—President T. Woodrow Wilson, U.S.A., signed the bill which empowered Director General of Railroads, W. G. McAdoo to assume complete control of the railways of the United States.
1918, April—United States railroads “off the line” agencies in Canada and in many “American” centres, withdrawn for the period of the war.
1918, May 15—America’s first aeroplane mail service inaugurated between Washington, Philadelphia and New York, President Woodrow Wilson receiving the first letter from Governor Charles S. Whitman, New York.
1918, August 18—Aero Club of Canada promoted through Royal Air Force, first temporary weekly aerial mail between Leaside Aerodrome (Toronto), to Ottawa.
The frontispiece photograph of passenger train is an early edition of the Empire State Express, by courtesy of the N.Y.C. & H.R.R.
The Frontispiece lettering was executed by Harry Moyer, cartoonist of Toronto Daily Star.
The Frontispiece conductor is Mr. D. J. Carson, former Chairman of the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors, Toronto, a popular vocalist who is widely known by patronizers of C.P.R. trains running between Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario.
The pen and ink decoration for “Navigators of the Blue” is the work of Miss Alberta L. Tory, daughter of Mr. Alfred Tory, Storekeeper, Grand Trunk Railway, London, Ont.
The half-tone engravings used in this book, with a few exceptions, were made by the British & Colonial Press, Limited, Toronto, Ont.