Van Buren & CN Saint-Hilaire to Saint John
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This video shows freight trains in action on the Van Buren Bridge Company & between 1998 and 2006 on the CN lines from Saint-Hilaire (just west of Edmundston) to Moncton and Saint John.

The Van Buren Bridge Company operated between St Léonard and Grand Falls on track owned by CN & CP to service the McCain’s plant. The track has now been purchased by CN.

Here we see Quebec Southern GP35u 506 with a short train of tank cars heading towards Grand Falls on 28 August 2002.

CN’s Napadogan subdivision from Edmundston to Pacific Junction (near Moncton) carries many long freight trains, some up to two miles in length, between Halifax or Saint John and Montreal, Toronto and Chicago as well as a few local freights. The area around Grand Falls is extremely picturesque with many large trestles that are particularly spectacular with the fall foliage. The Salmon River trestle is 4600 feet long and 200 feet high and we see several trains from different locations crossing both it and another trestle close by at New Denmark.

Here we see CN train 308 with 2501, 5518 & 5442 passing the church and crossing the trestle at New Denmark on a cloudy 7 October 2005.

The area is close to the Saint John River and we see some trains in the fog. We also see a brush cutter at work.

At McGivney a freight train is held up while a ballast train is at work. At Gort we see the westbound Ocean and visit the Gordon Yard (which used to be a hump yard) and see several GMD-1s at work as well as a “Sweep” and an SW1200RSu.

Finally we see a freight from Saint John travelling along the picturesque Kennebekacasis valley.