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This video shows over 65 westbound trains at more than 50 locations between 1992 and 2005 on the Bedford (Halifax to Truro) and Springhill (Truro to Moncton) Subdivisions with the location and mileage identified. Trains are seen in all four seasons of the year with spectacular fall colours and blowing snow!

The CN Main line between Halifax and Moncton is used by long distance (100 series) freights to Montreal, Toronto and Chicago, by a Dartmouth to Truro and Moncton freight (# 307), by local freights as well as by VIA passenger trains to Montreal (#15) and formerly by the Bras d’Or (# 19) – a weekly summer train to Sydney.

Over the last 15 years passenger trains have changed from steam heated to electrically heated coaches and the locomotives fitted with steam generators have been retired. Here we see an F40PH-2 and an aging FP9u with a train of blue & yellow coaches and 12 years later a very old CN GP9u and an F40PH-2 with a set of Stainless Steel coaches (the GP9u had been added in Quebec City to replace a failed F40PH-2).

Now the Renaissance coaches are taking over and the Stainless Steel coaches are due to be replaced in May 2007.

At the same time the number of 100 series freight trains has been reduced to 2 and the trains have become longer often exceeding 2 miles and 12,000 tons and usually arriving and departing from Halifax at night. Here we see VIA 15 passing CN train 307 from Dartmouth at Belmont West near Truro NS.