Dalhousie Jct

Via Train No. 14 slowly creeps through Dalhousie Jct on 5/27/2024.

 

For nearly its entire trip from Campbellton east to Miramichi, the train will rarely get above 10 MPH, due to current track conditions on the CN Newcastle Subdivision. While I think since then, CN has done some tie work, much of the subdivision is still plagued with slow orders.

 

Dalhousie Jct behind where I was shooting from was once the Jct between the New Castle Sub and the Dalhousie Subdivision, a short spur into town which served a massive paper and pulp mill, as well as a chemical plant. The paper mill would fold after a merger and coming under control of AbitibiBowater, during company wide "restructuring". The chemical plant would close only a few months later, as well as the nearby power generating station. Once the scrap from the mill was hauled off, all rail movements on the line ceased. Today its overgrown and has several washouts. While the town has tried to reinvent itself, by attracting new business as well as unsuccessful attempts to create a container port, like most former paper mill towns, these have all fell through.

 

VIA

Train: No.14

5/27/2024

Dalhousie Jct, NB

CN Newcastle Subdivision

Done