The Newfoundland Railway was not merely a convenient route to the middle of nowhere.

The labour force of Newfoundland and Labrador is now more highly diversified than is usually realized.

The Railway Settlement Act and the Newfoundland Government Railway (1920-49)--Society--Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web

Although the main line was itself a signal feat of engineering and political optimism, branch lines were also integral to the Newfoundland railway.

The Newfoundland Railway linked not only opened up the western interior of the island, but also provided a link between Newfoundland and Canada

The Newfoundland railway impacted the province economically, socially, and politically.

The history of the railway: The construction period, the Reid family, the Government of Newfoundland, Canadian National Railways, and TerraTransport.

Operations of the Newfoundland railway and the types of equipment that was required.

It was anticipated from the first that the railway would transform Newfoundland and its society as a whole.

On the completion of the railway line, there was an attempt to consolidate and expand coastal steamship services in Newfoundland and Labrador...

The Newfoundland railway operated for a little over a century. From 1882-97 the trains ran over completed portions of a projected trans-insular line.

Reid Descendants--Society--Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web

Robert Gillespie Reid and his descendants left an imprint on numerous aspects of Newfoundland business, politics and society.

Few issues surrounding the Newfoundland Railway attracted as much controversy as the lands grants made under various construction contracts...

In 1911 P.T. McGrath wrote of the Reid Newfoundland Company that it was 'the biggest paymaster in the Island, bigger even than the government.'

Biography of the patriarch of the Newfoundland Reid family, Robert Gillespie Reid.