Rollin' west

Thanks to George Pitarys who reminds me today with his uploads, the fact that Action Red once ruled the Baie des Chaleurs part of Gaspésie.

 

Société du Chemin de Fer de la Gaspésie first ever windmill blades unit train rolls into a super elevated curve at the permissive 30MPH track speed just east of Nouvelle-Ouest on the road's Cascapedia subdivision.

The new service gave SCFG about a train a month between New-Richmond and Matapedia between 2016 and 2021. Blades are trucked from the LM Windpower plant near Gaspé to the loading site located on the former Smurfit-Stone paper plant site in New-Richmond.

Since then, a change in the size of the blades produced by LM Windpower prevent their haulage by rail.

 

Trackage east of New-Richmond toward Gaspé, a distance of about 134 miles, was still under embargo by Transport Canada after many bridges were found too old and dangerous. The SCFG still operates 68 miles of trackage connecting with CN in Matapedia and serving three active customers.

 

SCFG 565-03

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MP 33.3 Cascapedia subdivision

Nouvelle-Ouest, QC

December 3rd, 2016

 

Done