Today the railway system has shrunk, the two main airlines have merged and a series of trade deals, culminating in the North American Free-Trade Agreement, have, since 1988, increased trade with the United States to some 87% of Canada's exports.

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Last month Lord Cullen recommended a series of measures to improve railway safety in his final report into the crash.

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In the 1966 TV series "Iron Horse, " Robertson played a character who won a railway in a high-stakes poker game.

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