lorencetoutant
Dalhousie Jct
Having to find a plan B after SFG took a last minute day off, thanks to shortline's unpredictable kind of operation, I made the almost two hours drive to New-Brunswick beautiful east coast in order to capture Campbellton-based job 564, hoping to catch it on it's return trip over the scenic Newcastle subdivision.
A quick check at his workload for the day tells me they only need to make it down to Irvco that day, in order to satisfy the never ending appetite of the Chaleur Bay sawmill for center-beam railroad cars.
Rolling into's super elevated curve by the former connecting point between Newcastle and Dalhousie subdivision, CN L564 have 16 loads on the drawbar, all of them from Chaleur Bay sawmill in Belledune and bound for Campbellton yard.
The former Dalhousie subdivision, once extending 6.2 miles to Dalhousie, NB in order to serves the huge Abitibi-Bowater paper plant along with Dalhousie generating station, closed respectively in 2008 and 2012, can be seen disappearing into's thick forest at left.
Half a mile of the trackage are still in use to serve one remaining customer, just north of Dalhousie Jct.
CN L56411-04
4912, GTW 6226
Milepost 164.2 Newcastle subdivision
Dalhousie, NB
October 4th 2023
Dalhousie Jct
Having to find a plan B after SFG took a last minute day off, thanks to shortline's unpredictable kind of operation, I made the almost two hours drive to New-Brunswick beautiful east coast in order to capture Campbellton-based job 564, hoping to catch it on it's return trip over the scenic Newcastle subdivision.
A quick check at his workload for the day tells me they only need to make it down to Irvco that day, in order to satisfy the never ending appetite of the Chaleur Bay sawmill for center-beam railroad cars.
Rolling into's super elevated curve by the former connecting point between Newcastle and Dalhousie subdivision, CN L564 have 16 loads on the drawbar, all of them from Chaleur Bay sawmill in Belledune and bound for Campbellton yard.
The former Dalhousie subdivision, once extending 6.2 miles to Dalhousie, NB in order to serves the huge Abitibi-Bowater paper plant along with Dalhousie generating station, closed respectively in 2008 and 2012, can be seen disappearing into's thick forest at left.
Half a mile of the trackage are still in use to serve one remaining customer, just north of Dalhousie Jct.
CN L56411-04
4912, GTW 6226
Milepost 164.2 Newcastle subdivision
Dalhousie, NB
October 4th 2023