by CPF66
I want to say at the end it was just inbound chlorite cars and those empties going out. There are photos on NERail way back when of two GP35's on the road job at Baring.
Its a miracle the mill didn't end up like half a dozen of the closed ones up here. Differed maintenance in the 80's and 90's, plus Domtar's ownership pretty much bled the place dry. I think the same year the mill was sold, Guilford and NBSR got hit with a record amount of rain. I remember reading on here years ago that Guilford had a bunch of washouts and several miles on NBSR's Saint Stephen Sub got washed away. At the time Irving was looking at constructing a massive open pit sand and gravel operation north of Saint Stephen, which is probably the only reason why the line was rebuilt. At the time they had hardly any interchange traffic and barely any customers in Saint Stephen unlike today.
I know soon after the line was sold to the mill before the two railroads and the mill got the sale/operations ironed out, the mill had the line fixed enough for it to be passable, and they were using the track mobile they owned to move a car or two at a time to Calais and back.
Its a miracle the mill didn't end up like half a dozen of the closed ones up here. Differed maintenance in the 80's and 90's, plus Domtar's ownership pretty much bled the place dry. I think the same year the mill was sold, Guilford and NBSR got hit with a record amount of rain. I remember reading on here years ago that Guilford had a bunch of washouts and several miles on NBSR's Saint Stephen Sub got washed away. At the time Irving was looking at constructing a massive open pit sand and gravel operation north of Saint Stephen, which is probably the only reason why the line was rebuilt. At the time they had hardly any interchange traffic and barely any customers in Saint Stephen unlike today.
I know soon after the line was sold to the mill before the two railroads and the mill got the sale/operations ironed out, the mill had the line fixed enough for it to be passable, and they were using the track mobile they owned to move a car or two at a time to Calais and back.