Governor-General Winfield Scott.
The New York, Michigan City, and Pitt Railroad was a railroad company promoted by Winfield Scott, the first Governor-General of the Confederation of North America under the Second Britannic Design.
The railroad was meant to further Scott's goal of unifying the C.N.A. by linking the country's major cities through a system of feeder lines. The railroad was financed with capital from the Northern Confederation and Great Britain. Scott's plans to further expand the railroad with lines connecting Quebec City and St. Augustine, Georgia were abandoned when the C.N.A. went to war with the United States of Mexico in 1845.
Although Sobel does not specifically say so, it is likely that the N.Y.M.C.&P. was built out from the earlier Northern Confederation Central Railroad, and was later merged with other railroads in the 1870s to form Thomas Scott's Grand National Railroad.