murray83 wrote:From what I understand its very isolated.........
Not isolated at all and quite visible from NB Highway 108 about 5 or 6 miles east of Grand Falls in the direction of Plaster Rock. Here’s directions that were recently posted to the “Atlantic Rails” Yahoogroup.
If you're driving on the Trans-Canada (NB #2), take
exit 75 at Highway 108 and follow it along the east side of the Saint
John River through Grand Falls, then continue east toward Drummond and
New Denmark.
After you climb some hills east of the town through the village of
Drummond (lots of potato fields), you drop into the Salmon River
valley and the trestle is on your left. At the west end is Ennishore
and east end is New Denmark Station - Ennishore has a siding and you
can go down to it on local roads (all paved and they're well plowed in
winter so no off-roading) where you can see signals. You can watch
trains from the 108 about 1 km west of the trestle, or you can watch
from some of these local roads about the same distance east of the
trestle, or you can take a local road directly underneath. The best
photography vantage point is a local road running past farm fields on
a hill overlooking the trestle from the east end.
You can then continue west on this road (Cemetery Road?), crossing
over the rail line on a subway to get back on Highway 108. Trains go
slow (10-15 mph) on the trestle so you can sometimes get ahead of
eastbounds on #108, watching them go over another shorter trestle in
New Denmark proper. If you're still ahead of the train, you can stay
ahead of them by crossing at a grade crossing a few miles further east
at Blue Bell, then follow the 108 where it turns at Hazeldean (if you
continue straight it becomes 393, the direct route to Plaster Rock but
doesn't follow the rail line). You have to be ahead of the train at
Hazeldean as you cross the line here, then you're on the west side of
the tracks through Anfield to the Tobique River trestle.