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n.
a winter railway built in 1880 on the ice of the St. Lawrence River between Montreal and Longueil, Quebec, the tracks being taken up in April each year until 1882, when the service was discontinued.
Quotations
1955
The ice-railway was an ingenious device to break the monopoly of the Grand Trunk.