(Recorded between 1993 & 2012)
69 minutes - available as DVD (CNGYP) and HD AVCHD (CNGYP-HD)

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National Gypsum owns the world's largest gypsum mine at Milford Nova Scotia. It is seen in the photo below as is a loaded train.

CN#701 at Milford Mine 17 June 2003


They have used a variety of locomotives, many remote controlled, including GE 45 & 100 tonners, a Hunslet and now a SW8 and a SW900. Video taken from the cab of the Hunslet & the GE 100 tonner is included. The loading & unloading operations are also seen. In the photo below the Hunslett is pushing cars into the dumper at Wrights Cove.


NG 100T 505 11 May 1995

CN hauls one or two trains on most days between the mine at Milford and the ship loading facility at Wrights Cove in Dartmouth. Trains used to comprise about 70 CN open hoppers and these are seen being emptied emptied one by one in a rotary tipper. Now National Gypsum uses its own bottom dump cars in trains of about 50 - 55 cars and the rotary tipper has been converted to allow dumping out of the bottom of these cars.

A wide variety of locomotive types have been use on the gypsum train including MLW (C-630M, M-636, HR-616, M-420, HR-412, RS-18 and RSC-14), GM (GP40, GP40-2, SD40, SD40-2, SD70I, SD75I and SD70M-2) & GE (Dash 9-44CW and ES44DC). Most of these locomotive types are seen operating the gypsum train.


The train travels about 36 miles from the mine to the ship loading facility and passes several lakes and is seen in both winter and summer surroundings.

Below an HR-616 and an C630M are seen with a loaded train approaching Windsor Junction in May 1983