NB Southern St Croix to Saint John
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This video shows freight trains and the Acadian tourist train on the New Brunswick Southern from the US border (St Croix) to Saint John.

The Acadian passenger train ran briefly during the summer of 2002 from Delson near Montreal over the former CP line to Saint John using one or two specially painted F40PHs (ex Amtrak) and a variety of stainless steel passenger cars including two mid-train dome cars and a rounded-end observation car. The train is seen both eastbound and westbound.

Here we see the westbound train crossing the river at Fredericton Junction on the 28 August 2002.

We see a yellow GP38-3 (painted for the short lived Sunbury trailer on flat car train) shunting cars from the St Stephen branch at McAdam prior to the arrival of the main line freight. We also see gypsum cars being unloaded using a mechanical shovel.

NB Southern usually operates one main line freight each day in each direction powered by a mixture of refurbished second-hand GP38s. Both the east and westbound trains are seen at numerous scenic locations jncluding crossing the St Croix river, passing the historic train station at McAdam, running alongside Harvey and Welsford Lakes as well as through fall foliage in the region between Fredericton Junction and Westfield Beach.

Here we see the daily eastbound freight with 2319 (in Sunbury yellow), 9802 & 2318 running beside Harvey Lake with the fall colours as a backdrop on 10 October 2006.

In Saint John, NB Southern switches the Dever Road Yard on the west side, the Island Yard (leased from CN) on the east side, the Irving Mill and the docks using its own SW1200s and CN’s GP9us.