Berlin's city council awarded the line a subsidy.

Ice flowing down the Grand River damaged piers of its bridge at Doon, Ontario.

[2] Eventually, in 1863, an act in Canada's Parliament exonerated Berlin City Council.

He sold those assets to the Grand Trunk Railway, on November 14, 1865.

The 6.9 miles (11.1 km) from Berlin, to the Grand River, at Doon, was incorporated into a route the Grand Trunk built from Berlin to Galt, Ontario.